Agartala, July 29 -- The North Tripura district administration has rolled out "Aspirational Boards," an AI-powered visual initiative aimed at reigniting students' motivation by putting their dreams in focus to tackle dropout at the high school level in the district.
The project, launched in Dasda of Kanchanpur, an aspirational block in the northernmost part of the state, comes in response to troubling statistics: only about 30 percent of students make the transition from Class VIII to IX and from X to XI.
"Nearly 70 percent of our students were dropping out," said North Tripura District Magistrate Chandni Chandran, adding that the administration has traced many of them and found the reasons ranged from low-income jobs and early marriages ...