{"id":1000784,"date":"2026-04-02T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000784"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:35:55","slug":"social-media-curbs-difficult-with-low-computer-access-minister-dharmendra-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/02\/social-media-curbs-difficult-with-low-computer-access-minister-dharmendra-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Social media curbs difficult with low computer access\u2019: Minister Dharmendra Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday said that only 12% to 15% of school students in India have access to computer systems, compared to nearly 80% in developed countries, posing a major challenge in restricting children\u2019s access to social media. He noted that limiting phone usage becomes difficult in such a scenario. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking after launching the CBSE curriculum on Computational Thinking (CT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for students of Classes III to VIII at Vigyan Bhawan, Pradhan said some countries and a few Indian states have already introduced restrictions on social media usage among school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday said that only 12% to 15% of school students in India have access to computer systems, compared to nearly 80% in developed countries, posing a major challenge in restricting children\u2019s access to social media. He noted that limiting phone usage becomes difficult in such a scenario. Speaking after launching the CBSE curriculum on Computational Thinking (CT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for students of Classes III to VIII at Vigyan Bhawan, Pradhan said some countries and a few Indian states have already introduced restrictions on social media usage among school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}