1.5 lakh Students in Punjab to get Akash Tablets
There is a good news for the students studying in the Punjab Government schools. According to the latest update, 1.5 lakh students in rural areas would be provided with Akash tablets from the coming session. If reports are to be believed, the cost of 1.5 lakh Aakash tablet is nearly Rs.110 crore.
According to an announcement made by Inderbir Singh Bolaria, Chief Parliamentary Secretary (Education), the Government is fully committed to strengthen higher education in rural areas of the state and the education sector was a priority for the SAD-BJP Government.
Inderbir Singh Bolaria said, "The tablets would be distributed with an aim to make rural students aware about the use of technology in present-day education. Under the previous budget, the Punjab Government had sanctioned 12% of the whole budget to the education sector."
Here, an important fact to keep in mind is that Aakash is an indigenous tablet equipped with all the requisite attributes of a high-end tablet.
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