Speaker gives away free laptops to college students

Speaker gives away free laptops to college students

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M. Appavu distributed the State government’s free laptops to 2,480 private college students in a function held at Government Engineering College in Palayamkottai on Wednesday.

Speaking on the occasion, he said the free laptops, being given to the beneficiary students under the ‘Ulagam Ungal Kaiyil’ scheme, had reached the hands of 9,703 third year students of 29 government and government-aided colleges in the first phase and 2,480 students of 27 private colleges had received the freebee in the second phase.

The beneficiary students should use their laptops, which had become integral part of the modern world for equipping the students with employable skills, strictly for their career advancement and not for entertainment. They should use this gift from the Tamil Nadu Government for cracking the competitive examinations which would eventually take them to enviable positions with lucrative salary, he said.

District Collector R. Sukumar, District Revenue Officer M. Durai and others participated in the function.

In Kanniyakumari district, where 2,182 laptops were given in the first phase to the students of 29 government and government-aided colleges, 4,524 laptops were sent to 15 private colleges on Wednesday.

“Principals and the secretaries of these colleges have been instructed to give away the laptops within 48 hours in the presence of the MLAs and the local body representatives concerned,” said District Collector R. Alagumeena after receiving the fresh stocks of laptops at Nesamony Memorial Christian College in Marthandam on Wednesday.