Amid roaring applause from the engineering and medical students in the jam packed indoor stadium complex Budha Talab, Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh distributed laptops to students on Wednesday. Excited with the overwhelming welcome, the Chief Minister said “so far whatsoever schemes we have launched we had not received such welcome”. About 4,000 laptops were distributed to the students.
The Chief Minister said that “laptops are an important part of professional courses like engineering and medical student. Through laptops the students could now connect themselves with rest of world and gather information. In coming future tablets will be distributed to more than one lakh students belonging to BSc, BA, BCom and other streams,” Chief Minister said.
He was of the view that to energise and to make students ready for coming future is the work of government and to achieve this purpose government has started this scheme. He further said, earlier whenever I used to see admission notice of good engineering or other professional college in which laptop for students taking admission was a big attraction. Now students of Chhattisgarh will also have this facility, Chief Minister said.
Earlier Mohit Sibbal a student of Bhilai Institute of Technology said this government has made schemes for everyone but youth was seemed to be forgotten, now with laptop distribution scheme we feel honoured.
School Education Minister Brijmohan Agrawal who was also present on the occasion addressing the gathering said we feel happy as well as jealous at this moment.
“We are happy because students of our state will now have laptops but we jealous because the time when we studied we did not had laptops like facilities.”