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Free laptops to meritorious students in Himachal Pradesh
HP government Chief Minister Shri Virbhadra Singh on Monday launched the ‘Rajeev Gandhi Digital Vidyarthi Yojna 2015-16’ under which free laptops and netbooks will be distributed to meritorious students of classes X and XII. Speaking at the launch of the initiative he highlighted many other achiev
The Himachal Pradesh government under the leadership of Chief Minister Shri Virbhadra Singh on Monday launched the 'Rajeev Gandhi Digital Vidyarthi Yojna 2015-16' under which free laptops and netbooks will be distributed to meritorious students of classes X and XII. Speaking at the launch of the initiative at Sundernagar in Mandi, the CM distributed 86 laptops to meritorious students and added that around 10,000 more laptops will be distributed at an estimated cost of Rs 18.32 lakhs.
While speaking at the ceremony Singh shared with the audience various things that the Congress-led state government was doing to ensure quality education to the children. He spoke about the 'Mukhya Mantri Gyandeep Yojna' that provides a loan upto Rs 10-lakh at subsidised interest rate to all Himachali students. Besides, the 'Mukhya Mantri Vardi Yojna' ensures that all students get free uniforms in state-run schools upto secondary classes.
He added that Rs. 30 crores have been set aside for each constituency under the 'Mukhya Mantri Adarsh Vidyalaya Yojna', to provide state-of-art infrastructural and teaching facilities. The CM proudly said that more than 1,000 schools had been opened or upgraded in the state during last 3 years besides 24 Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) and two engineering colleges. As many as 29 colleges have been opened in the state, mostly in remote and rural areas, taking the total number of colleges to 94, Singh said.
