Chandigarh, 28th February: Rotary Club of Chandigarh and Connect Broadband have tied up to conduct cyber-safety programme for the parents and school children.
This was announced today at a workshop organized for parents at Rotary House here today.Rotary Club Chandigarh’s president A.P. Singh said that with the growing penetration of mobile phones, ipads, laptops and computers in people’s homes, children are getting exposed to internet content which poses grave threat to the children.
He informed that Rotary shall introduce Connect’s school initiative, NetChamps, in more schools in the tricity including the government schools, and its 12 Interact schools in Chandigarh, under its ‘Saksham’ programme.Dr. Shilpa, a noted psychologist lamented the growing trend amongst young mother to handover mobile phone to their infants in order to keep them calm make them eat their food.
This unattended access to internet content is a dangerous trend that could harm the children, she said.
Connect Broadband has sensitized over 10,000 children under their NetChamps programme in various schools in Punjab and Chandigarh, which receives tremendous participation from teachers and children, and has also received international recognition for this initiative
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