The State Government has made all preparations for distributing free laptop and tablets to the college students. According to sources, laptops would be given away to about 15,000 engineering, medical, dental and agriculture students, whereas, tablets would be given away to about 85,000 students. sources said that CM Dr Raman singh will commence this scheme on April 9 from Rajnadgaon.
The sources said, total 13,292 final year students of 48 engineering colleges of the state would be given free laptops, besides 437 final year medical students from Raipur, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur. Earlier, preparations had been made to give laptops to the engineering and medical students only, but later it was decided to give laptops to the dental and agriculture final year students also. About 1,500 agriculture and dental students would be given free laptops, the sources added.
According to the sources, laptops and tablets have already been purchased and reached the colleges also. Tablets have to be distributed to about 80,000 BA, BCom and BSc final year students.
The higher education department has sought the full information about the beneficiary students, so that the tablets could be despatched to the colleges concerned. It is said that the highest 886 laptops would be given to the students of Shankara Engineering college of Bhilai, whereas 302 laptops would be given to the students of government engineering college Bilaspur, 184 to government engineering college Jagdalpur and 356 to government engineering college Raipur, the sources added.
Among the private engineering colleges, 262 laptops will be given to Korba college, 148 to Ashoka Institute, 71 to Balaji Institute, Nandgaon, 175 to Bharti college, 638 to BIT Durg, 258 to BIT Central, 153 to San Engineering, 278 to Central College, 89 to Central college Abhanpur, 669 to Chhatrapati Shivaji college, 248 to Chhattisgarh Institute college.