90 per cent of Kolkata Students have mobile phones

Around 90 per cent of Kolkata students have mobile phones and 76 per cent have a home PC, beating the national average, said Tata Consultancy Services survey.

The TCS Generation Web 2.0 survey confirms that today’s students are shifting their academic and social life online and embracing the world as true digital natives.

This societal trend has important implications for parents, educators, policy makers and future employers, as well as companies and brands that want to sell to tomorrow’s generation, the survey pointed out.

The TCS Generation Web 2.0 survey, conducted for the first time in 2008-09, highlights that over 80 per cent of urban school children have access to mobile phones, find time for the internet alongside school, classes and extra-curricular activities, and are starting to embrace Web 2.0 tools like blogs and social networking sites.

Kolkata has emerged as the metropolitan city with the highest number of students using the internet for information access, as well as the highest mobile and personal computer penetration among students, according to a survey conducted by India’s largest IT solutions provider, Tata Consultancy Services.

The survey says Kolkata leads the pack in the usage of Wikipedia (31 per cent) for information sourcing. Again, among all metros, Kolkata tops the preference for banking and financial services (20 per cent).