Ludhiana, Aug. 1 -- Teachers at the Residential School for Meritorious Students have made a public appeal for donations of interactive smart panels, saying an acute shortage of digital infrastructure is hampering online coaching under the Punjab Academic Coaching for Excellence (PACE) programme despite the school's consistent success in competitive examinations.

The school, which has over 850 students enrolled in Classes XI and XII across the medical, non-medical and commerce streams, currently has only four interactive smart panels for its 15 sections. While some classrooms are equipped with conventional projectors, teachers said these are inadequate for the specialised online teaching required under the PACE programme, which prepares s...