5,717 students would be given free laptops in the district

Updated on: Monday, April 02, 2012

Agriculture minister, S Damodaran said, 3,308 students were given the laptops so far Of the targeted 45,717 students for distributing laptops in the district under the Tamil Nadu Government scheme. 
 
Speaking after distributing laptops worth Rs 2.92 crore to 1,987 students at a function here, Damodaran said that all the students in the State would be provided with laptops in another five years.
 
He said, Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa was giving more priority for education and trying to provide all basic needs to the student community and considering this, Rs 14,583 crore was  allocated for the sector in the recent budget, higher than any other sector.

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