laptops will be given to meritorious students from this year onwards. All the departments concerned will have provision for this in the supplementary budget accordingly. The laptops shall be purchased after consultation by the information technology department and approval of the finance department. These instructions were passed by the Chief Secretary N Ravi Shankar in a meeting held at the Secretariat on Saturday. The focus of the meeting was to discuss the process of laptop distribution.
It may be noted that the Cabinet had earlier taken a decision to give laptops to those students who have passed the intermediate exam with 80 percent of marks.
It was also decided to give laptop to any student who has secured over 70 percent marks in the State higher education\\institutes of technical education, agricultural education, medical education and other professional institutes. Student, who has been allotted a laptop in one field, will not be issued a second laptop irrespective of his performance.
Present in the meeting were additional Chief Secretary S Raju, principal secretary Ayush, Om Prakash, secretary health education RK Sudhanshu, secretary education SC Joshi, additional secretary to the CM Nidhimani Tripathi and other senior officers.