The Andhra Pradesh authorities has dropped the plan to distribute laptops to college students stating they’re ‘costly’ and ‘many digital learning applications do not work on them’. Initially, the laptops had been introduced to be distributed to college students of lessons 9 to 12 in Andhra Pradesh faculties.
Now, the federal government is considering distributing solely tabs (pill computer systems) to college students of sophistication 8.
Each Tab, loaded with digital studying content material, will price the federal government Rs 12,000. “We are planning to distribute the Tabs by September this year,” a senior training official stated.
According to officers, as the category 8 college students should carry the identical Tab to the additional lessons, a laptop computer is not going to be required.
Last yr, Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy introduced that college students of lessons 9 to 12 might go for laptop computer computer systems in lieu of the Rs 15,000 dole (now decreased by Rs 2,000) beneath Ammavodi scheme, which is supposed to encourage moms to ship their kids to varsities. He stated the laptops can be delivered within the 2022 educational yr.
Accordingly, 8,21,655 college students of lessons 9 to 12 opted for laptops as an alternative of the money dole. Over 1.10 lakh of those college students had been in any other case lined beneath Vasati Deevena, one other freebie scheme. Last week, Education Minister Botsa Satyanarayana stated they had been negotiating the value with the suppliers and it will be finalised and the laptops delivered to college students together with Ammavodi.
Government sources stated the duty of procuring laptops was entrusted to the AP Technology Services. The APTS sought to buy every laptop computer for Rs 18,000, relying on the configuration.However, the suppliers had been stated to have quoted a value of Rs 26,000 per laptop computer, making it unaffordable for the federal government.
The further monetary burden on the state can be Rs 657 crore if laptops had been bought on the price quoted by the suppliers, an official stated.
With inputs from PTI.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”