Ahead of next year’s Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the state government will distribute free smartphones and tablets to one lakh students on Saturday, the birth anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which is observed as Good Governance Day. The students belong to undergraduate, postgraduate, medical, engineering and skill development courses in the state.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will distribute gadgets to the students at Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. In this first phase, preference will be given to final year students of MA, BA, BSc, ITI, MBBS, MD, BTech, MTech, PhD, MSME and skill development. For this, the state government has ordered more than 10.5 lakh smartphones and 7.20 lakh tablets.
Adityanath will also launch DG Shakti Portal and DG Shakti Study App. With this the BJP-led government will fulfill one of its promises made in the Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra 2017.
Arvind Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary, IT and Electronics Department said that this scheme is a big step towards the up-gradation of the students. Smartphones and tablets will not only have online study material but will also have employment related information.
He said that DG Shakti Adhyayan App has been pre-installed in all the gadgets, through which the concerned university or department will provide study material to the students. The government will also disseminate information about employment-oriented schemes through boot logos and wall papers.
Under this scheme, the state government has tied up with IT giant Infosys. With this, 3900 programs related to education and employment of Infosys will be available free of cost.
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