Camera: Athar Rather
Multimedia Producer: Rahul Sanpui
(With inputs from Shah Umar)
On 20 September 2020, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishen Reddy told the Lok Sabha that students in Jammu and Kashmir can access education apps and websites run by the government on 2G mobile internet.
“E-learning apps and education and e-learning websites of the government are accessible over 2G internet for downloading e-books and other study material,” Reddy said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha, seeking to justify the ban on 4G mobile internet in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Quint compared accessibility of e-Pathshala, a government learning app between two individuals – Class 12 student Haya Muzaffer, using 2G in Srinagar, Kashmir, and The Quint’s Senior Correspondent Anthony Rozario in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
Here are the results:
App Download – While Anthony took just 9 seconds to download the app, Haya took 3:73 mins do do the same.
E-Book Download – Anthony took 15 seconds to download the E-book, while Haya took 5:15 minutes.
While Anthony finished downloading the app, e-book and watched a video in 16:24 minutes, Haya took about 30 minutes to complete the entire process.
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