Free of cost laptop distribution programme was held on Friday afternoon at a private engineering college campus at Durg town under Chhattisgarh Yuva Soochna Kranti, in which 5537 final year students of 16 different engineering colleges of Durg district were given laptops for free by Chief Minister Raman Singh.
In his address to the gathering, CM said that Chhattisgarh Yuva Soochna Kranti will bestow the students with power of technology, connecting them to the latest researches and innovations done across the nation as well as world, and will also help them in studies.
“Chhattisgarh Government has decided to distribute free laptops and computer tablets to one lakh students every year under Chhattisgarh Yuva Soochna Kranti Yojana. Final year students of medical and engineering colleges will provided laptops free of cost while the final year students of science, arts and commerce based graduation and post graduation courses will be distributed free computer tablets” remarked Raman Singh while addressing the function.
Singh further said that despite being a new state of modern India, Chhattisgarh has achieved tremendous success at national-level in almost every aspect of development in State, within only about 13 years of its formation.
“Chhattisgarh has successfully maintained its double-digit growth in last few years. It is self-dependent in the field of power production and is the only zero-power cut state of the country. Chhattisgarh's annual power consumption per person is 1547 units, which is almost double than many other states. These are the obvious signs of development,’’ added Chief Minister.
Water Resource and Higher Education Minister Ramvichaar Netam, Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Hemchand Yadav, BJP MP Saroj Pandey, other public representatives, students and teachers of various colleges and other people were also present on the occasion.