{"id":115770,"date":"2021-07-04T17:11:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115770"},"modified":"2021-07-04T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T00:11:14","slug":"solutions-to-internet-problem-of-rural-school-children-and-a-solution-to-prevent-elephant-attacks-on-villagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/04\/solutions-to-internet-problem-of-rural-school-children-and-a-solution-to-prevent-elephant-attacks-on-villagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Solutions to Internet problem of rural school children and a solution to prevent elephant attacks on villagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Aloysius Hettiarachchi.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Lack\nof signals for internet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nhas been announced today that by August this year Elon Musk\u2019s company will be\nproviding internet coverage to the whole world except the polar regions. Why\nnot the Ministry of Education or the Digital Technology Minister talk to the\nrelevant company and arrange to provide this facility for which the rural students\nare going through untold hardships?.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attack\non villagers by elephants<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\noften see that the houses of the villages are broken into by elephants to eat\nthe paddy they store inside their houses. It appears the elephants somehow\npenetrate the electrified fences and enter the villages to attack the houses\nand peasants. Why not provide them with a basic weapon to shoot at them and\ndeliver painful dose that they will not forget?. Such a gadget, the Stun Gun ,\nis available at low cost ($ 10 \u2013 25) and can be operated with a rechargeable &nbsp;9 volt battery. It has a simple circuit that\ncan be modified to enable it remotely by the wild life officials via a mobile signal\nto work during suitable hours only. I am sure even an old woman can be trained\nto use it effectively as the target is so large. May be the mandarins around\nthe Prez can get some Uni dons to carry out a feasibility study including how\nto avoid misuse etc. on this idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aloysius\nHettiarachchi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aloysius Hettiarachchi. Lack of signals for internet It has been announced today that by August this year Elon Musk\u2019s company will be providing internet coverage to the whole world except the polar regions. Why not the Ministry of Education or the Digital Technology Minister talk to the relevant company and arrange to provide this facility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}