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Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services Palanivel Thiaga Rajan distributed laptops to 1,563 students nether Ulagam Ungal Kaiyil Scheme astatine The Madura College present connected Wednesday.
Speaking connected the occasion, helium said, “Since the DMK authorities took office, we person identified those [students] lagging down and formulated schemes to promote them.”
“Priority successful higher acquisition to those from Tamil-medium and authorities schoolhouse backgrounds done Pudhumai Penn and Tamil Pudhalvan schemes, which supply ₹1,000 to students each month, and Naan Mudhalvan skill-development inaugural designed to span the spread successful securing employment person helped the students flooded respective barriers,” helium stated.
He past contrasted the maturation models of Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. While acknowledging Gujarat’s accelerated economical maturation successful infrastructure specified arsenic ports, airports, and powerfulness plants, helium said the ‘Dravidian Model’ governance successful Tamil Nadu excelled successful quality payment and societal indicators.
“The existent quality lies successful beingness skills, health, and education. While astir 90% of students successful Tamil Nadu implicit their Class XII education, the fig is lone astir 50% successful Gujarat. Also, Tamil Nadu boasts 4 doctors for each 1,000 people, whereas Gujarat has lone 1 doc for each 1,500 people,” helium added.
He attributed this semipermanent occurrence to the foundations laid by the Justice Party successful 1916, and the Compulsory Primary Education Act, 1921, emphasising that societal justice, self-respect, and sex equality, including aboriginal voting rights for women, had been the unshakeable policies of the State, careless of which enactment — the DMK, AIADMK, oregon the Congress — was successful power.
He said by inviting planetary contention for a monolithic bid of 20 lakh units, the authorities brought down the terms of high-quality laptops from an archetypal marketplace complaint of ₹35,000 – ₹40,000 to ₹22,000 – ₹23,000 per unit.
“The students should cognize that these are the astir functional and high-spec laptops ever provided by the State government,” helium said, highlighting that the 8GB RAM and precocious processors acceptable these devices isolated from erstwhile iterations.
“The eventual explanation of occurrence is the attraction you amusement for others — beryllium it your family, your community, oregon your neighbour. Those who look beyond themselves are the ones who genuinely win successful life,” Mr. Thiaga Rajan said.
