<span style="color: #222222;">In a historic development in the education system in Ladakh, Lieutenant Governor R K Mathur launched the YounTab scheme 2021, from Leh today. YounTab scheme has been formulated to encourage digital learning, bridge the digital divide between connected and un-connected and mitigate the COVID pandemic disruptions.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Each Android 10 based 32 GB Tab with Eight inch screen Tab has online and offline Apps along with 35 books in PDF format for class 9th to 12th students. In the first phase of YounTab Scheme, 9 to 12 class students are handed over Educational Tabs in Leh and Kargil, today.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A total of 12,300 students of 6th to 12th class from Government schools will benefit from the scheme worth Rs 15 crore.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR Correspondent reports, addressing the occasion, Lieutenant Governor RK Mathur also said 91 new ICT labs would be set up while 2 Astronomy labs are already set up to develop scientific temperament among the students of Ladakh. Sharing other initiatives in the education sector, the LG said, the administration is working on conducting classes during the winter season to high and higher secondary school students and on developing content in the local Ladakhi language.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">       </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The LG also appealed to the Leh and Kargil Hill Council administrations to ensure 100 per cent enrollment and zero dropout upto class eight. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In the virtual YounTab scheme launch programme, Leh hill council CEC Tashi Gyaltson, Kargil CEC Feroz Ahemed Khan and Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal have participated. CECs and MP have distributed Tablets to the school students in Leh and Kargil.</span><br />''