The State Government would provide free laptops to meritorious students, who have successfully cleared the annual Plus II examinations 2019, by December this year.
The process has been initiated for distribution of free laptops to 15,000 students.
The distribution process would be completed by December, 2019, informed a source in the Higher Education Department.
The students would get the laptops under the Biju Yuva Sashaktikaran Yojana, the Free Laptop Tablet Distribution Scheme to Meritorious Students.
A merit list of students eligible for the laptops would be released by the department soon.
Last year, the Government had issued revised guidelines about the eligibility criteria. As per the guidelines, apart from the meritorious students in Arts, Science and Commerce streams, the vocational students passing from the CHSE and the Upashastri students from the Shri Jagannath Sanskrit Vishvavidyalaya, Puri are also eligible to get free laptops under the scheme.