Computer science students at school to learn open source database and Java at Secondary level

Another breakthrough post adoption of Open Source Technologies at NCERT. After NCERT, now Java and MySQL will be included as a part of the Senior School curriculum 2011 for Informatics Practices Syllabus of CBSE. This is the result of continued efforts of past 6 months, including

meetings with Ministry of HRD, workshops and technical support extended to the HOD, Computer Science of leading schools and case studies presented. Total of 9824 schools are affiliated with Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board in India.