Samajwadi Party chief and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav attacked the BJP-led UP government over its promise to distribute laptops and tablets to students. Yadav on Thursday asked the state government where he has been for nearly five years and why his promise has not been fulfilled yet.
Akhilesh Yadav distributed free laptops to 130 meritorious students of Durga Ji Inter College of Kandaharpur region in his parliamentary constituency Azamgarh on Thursday. Congratulating the students on the occasion, he said, “These students have achieved good results by their hard work, I thought the government would honor these children as their Sankalp Patra said laptops would be given to meritorious students.” More institutions will be connected to it. WiFi, but this has not happened anywhere in the last four and a half years. I saw today in the newspaper that they are going to give tablets, we want to know from them which tablet were given to these children in four years ?”
Further attacking the Chief Minister, Yadav said, “Laptops are not being distributed in this government because Baba the Chief Minister does not know how to operate a laptop. Today we are giving some laptops so that the government remembers what promises they made.
“These kids belong to the new generation, they need technology. I am happy that when our government was there, to whom we had given laptops, they were all happy. I told him that this would make further studies easier and would make dreams come true. If you go to any village in the state, you will surely find someone with the laptop given by us, Akhilesh said.
The Uttar Pradesh government is preparing to issue the biggest ever tender on the GeM folder for the purchase of about one crore smartphones and tablets. The government has announced that it will distribute smartphones to the youth by the end of November.
The selected company will have to provide at least 2.5 lakh tablets and those selected for the smartphone will have to provide at least 5 lakh handsets in the first lot. The government has already earmarked Rs 3,000 crore in the financial year 2021-22 to provide tablets or smartphones to one crore youth in the state.
A few days back, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said, “To equip the youth of Uttar Pradesh with the latest technology so that no youth in the state falls short of availing the benefits of online studies, the government will start providing tablets, laptops, etc. From the last week of November.”
With just a few months left for the 2022 UP assembly elections, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also announced distribution of mobile phones and electric scooties to girl students if the Congress government is formed in the state.
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