varanasi is the computer education programme for government upper primary schools in the district turning out to be a mere eyewashwhile the district education office launched the computer education cum training programme in a number of government upper primary schools last year under the rashtriya madhyamik shiksha abhiyan rmsa the move aimed at strengthening computer education at upper primary level is now turning into a formality with most of the schools still deprived of the benefits of the programmeeven as the recent reports of office of basic shiksha adhikari bsa indicate that as many as 72 out of total of 352 government upper primary schools in the district are already equipped with computers under the programme the report also suggests that the installed computers are yet to become operational in more than 50 per cent of these schools due to various reasonssafety and security of the installed computers has also drawn attention of district education officials as some of the schools have already returned the computers to bsa office raising their hands to ensure safety of the computers in remote villages where upper primary schools are situatedas per bsa suryabhan reports of thefts of computers have poured in from different places and efforts are being made to ensure safety and security of these computers similarly efforts to recruit computer teachers have been initiated on priority basis to strengthen the programme he addedit may be mentioned here that over 2000 teachers are deployed in the government upper primary schools of the district but the bsa office is still facing shortage of teachers to provide computer education and training to the students similarly with a number of upper primary schools yet to be electrified the spread of the programme has not been fast enough in the district