pune the pune municipal corporation and the linguistic of religious minorities education institute felicitated the students who have successfully completed the mscit spoken english and english literacy course said a press statement issued by the school education department the statement added that the students in the municipal schools for minorities who received distinction in these exams were presented with laptops and desktop computers a total 19 laptops and 74 desktop computers were given to students as awards mscit is the course run by maharashtra knowledge corporation limited mkcl a company promoted by the department of higher and technical education of the government of maharashtra to promote use of information technology it in educational sector the it literacy course was started by mkcl in the year 2002 it has made more than 8 million learners it literate till date it is the most popular it literacy course in maharashtra this course comprises reading and understanding a highly illustrated book elearning based selflearning sessions training of mkcls elearning revolution for all era the course also provides handson practice sessions over 6700 students from the minority educational institutes have completed the computer literary course in the city there are over 7750 students who are learning the course in 34 urdu schools run by pmc the press statement added