Retaining in thoughts lakhs of kids preparing for aggressive exams and dealing with varied challenges, officers of Prayagraj Sensible Metropolis Ltd have determined to lend them a serving to hand.

They’ve proposed permitting the sensible lecture rooms arrange by them in completely different faculties of the town to be utilised after college hours by these aspirants to arrange for their exams in lieu of a nominal month-to-month charge of ₹300. Presently, these aspirants are paying something between ₹800 and ₹1,500 for such a facility.
The Sensible Metropolis Mission has transformed a complete of 295 lecture rooms in 19 faculties right here into sensible lecture rooms. These lecture rooms are geared up with free wi-fi, sensible screens and different state-of-the-art services. Fixed monitoring of those lecture rooms is finished by means of a standard server room and CCTVs.
As per the proposed plan of the sensible metropolis authorities, the aspirants will probably be supplied with low-cost ‘study centres’ whereby all of the facilities will probably be supplied that they get by paying hefty quantity to non-public gamers. There are round 200 such privately owned study centres in the town, officers stated.
“Prayagraj Sensible Metropolis will cost a month-to-month charge of ₹300, of which an quantity of ₹100 could be retained by Prayagraj Sensible Metropolis Ltd for the operation of the scheme whereas the remainder of ₹200 will probably be given to the varsity involved for assembly out the expenditure for offering the power”, stated mission supervisor (technical), Prayagraj Sensible Metropolis Ltd, SK Sinha.
He stated an app for the slot reserving of those study centres would even be developed and supplied to the customers for which they are going to be charged. Sinha additionally claimed that Prayagraj would be the first metropolis in Uttar Pradesh to give you such a facility.
These ‘sensible study centres’ could be supplied in two phases. Within the first part, there could be seven faculties whereas in the second part, 12 extra will probably be added, he shared. In part one, the proposed mission will present 50 sensible lecture rooms in seven faculties and even when simply 80% occupancy is calculated, 1200 aspirants could be accommodated in them.
“It will earn an quantity of ₹3.60 lakh per 30 days, of which ₹2.40 lakh will probably be distributed amongst these seven faculties and ₹1.20 lakh will probably be taken by Prayagraj Sensible Metropolis Ltd,” stated Sinha.
Likewise in the second part, 245 extra such lecture rooms could be supplied to those aspirants and with simply 80% occupancy, there nonetheless could be 5,880 customers. An quantity of ₹11.76 lakh per 30 days will probably be for faculties whereas Prayagraj Sensible Metropolis Ltd’s share would come to round ₹5.88 lakh.