"St Joseph's, Chandor has been imparting computer education to its students for quite some years now. In spite of space crunch problems and financial constraints, the school has been able to set up the basic infrastructure for computer-educating the students. Being a village, it's comparatively tougher to raise funds for such projects. The Chandor school caters to students coming from the middle to low end of the economic spectrum. The schools has also had several fund raising programmes to finance computer education in the school."

"Lourdes Convent High School is basically a village school and computers have been introduced in the school about 3 years ago. Initially, the students were given an option between computers and craft. Those opting for computers were asked to pay a monthly fee of Rs.50/-. There were just a few students who opted for computers as the others could not afford this fee.

Realising that students need to have computer knowledge, the headmistress of the school has reduced the fees and has made it compulsory for all students from Std. V. Those children who cannot afford evcn the reduced fees, are not deprived of the opportunity to learn computers. Some arrangement has been worked out for them.

In order that the students should not be deprived of Computer Time, the school has a separate computer for administrative work. I also wish to make a mention that besides imparting computer knowledge to the students, the school has also made an effort to educate the village people in this field. During vacations classes are conducted for the public at reasonable rates.

I feel this school deserves a lot of credit for the involvement in computer education and hence this nomination."

"Despite having a high-ratio of girl-students, the forward-looking management of this school has decided to go ahead and give the girl-child access to computer-education that will surely yield benefits (and make a difference to many lives) in the years to come."

"A school which has been eager to implement computer-education, despite having to live with a number of shortcomings, particularly the shortage of resources."

"Overcoming initial teething problems, and so many questions on how this project would work, this city-based school went ahead in offering computer education to its students."

"This was one of the early schools to launch computer education in the city, leading other nearby schools to go in for computers too."

"This school has under its teacher Jude Miranda made the most progress in computer studies during the past three years as a visit to the school will show. The school is enthusiastic and well equipped and is pushing forward the frontiers of technology with its multimedia and Internet connections."

"Using a range of innovative means, this school raised funds and got citizens' support (from near and far) to set up an innovative computer-lab."

"Various means have been used to boost computer education for the students of this school, though its physical distance from us makes us fail to recognise these efforts."

"A.J.De.Almeida HS from Ponda is imparting computer education and I nominate that school."

"This school has teamed up with a private body, to offer computer-education to a wider section of society, thus utilising its infrastructure to the maximum."