The Department of Education has started releasing sim cards with internet load to about a million teaching and non-teaching personnel.
Education Undersecretary Alain Pascua said the internet load aims to “ensure ease in communication and unhampered delivery of services” as distance learning continues amid the pandemic.
The department has allocated P1.2 billion for the sim cards.
The funding was part of the P4.3 billion financial assistance given to DepEd through the Bayanihan to Recover As One Act or Bayanihan 2.
Permanent, contractual, and local government unit-paid personnel working under DepEd schools and offices are eligible to receive the cards which will be distributed until July 23.
The sim cards will be activated with an initial 34-gigabyte load, which is consumable for one year, the DepEd said.
Division supply officers and school property custodians will register the sim cards to a website to allocate load for the succeeding months.