laptops with quad-core processors and tablets will now be provided to college students of Chhattisgarh under ‘Chhattisgarh Yuva Kranti Yojana’. Technical approval for high speed and capacity laptops and tablets was given by the High Power Committee in its meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand here at Mantralaya on Thursday.
According to officials, free laptops are given to the final year students of medical and technical education students while tablets are provided to the final year students of other colleges under the scheme. Earlier laptops and tablets with dual-core processors were distributed among students under the scheme. Now laptops and tablets with high speed and capacity quad-core processors will be distributed among the students.
Principal Secretary, Information Technology Department, Aman Kumar Singh, Secretary, B Anand Babu, Principal Secretary, Health, Dr Alok Shukla, Secretary, Higher Education, Bl Agrawal, Secretary , Finance and Technical Education, Amit Agrawal, Secretary, Industry and Commerce Subodh Singh, Deputy Secretary, Kartikeya Goyal, CEO of Naya Raipur Development Authority, Amit Kataria and CEO of CHiPS Saurabh Kumar were present in the meeting.