Shillong:: Meghalaya became the second state after Tripura in the Northeast to launch EDUSAT, a satellite-based education project. Meghalaya Education Minister Manas Choudhuri on Monday inaugurated EDUSAT, which would help provide distant education to students living in remote and inaccessible areas. The first EDUSAT in the country was launched in Karnataka in March 2005.

The Shillong based North East Space Application Centre (NESAC) co-ordinated by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) helped the state to launch the satellite education project.

The satellite education will enable teaching and learning at various levels in the 50 Satellite Interactive Terminals set up in remote areas of the state. The project will use satellite and videoconferencing for the purpose. A hub and a studio will be set up in

Shillong with Satellite Interactive Terminals (SITs) in different schools including those in rural areas which would be linked to the hub.

Launching the project, Chaudhuri said this would act as an instrument of social change by altering human perspective and transforming the traditional mindset of teachers and the students.