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Minister for Water Resources Duraimurugan distributed escaped laptops for 145 authorities assemblage students successful the archetypal signifier nether ‘Ulagam Ungal Kaiyil (The satellite is successful your hands)’ scheme, which was launched by Chief Minister M.K Stalin connected January 5, at a relation successful Katpadi successful Vellore connected Saturday.
Accompanied by Collector V.R. Subbulaxmi, Mr. Duraimurugan, who is besides Katpadi MLA, said that the Dravidian exemplary of governance has introduced respective payment schemes for each sections of the nine since it assumed bureau successful mid-2021. The escaped laptop provided by the State authorities volition assistance authorities students particularly successful agrarian and tribal areas . “Rural students including girls tin update themselves connected existent events that hap astir the world. It volition besides assistance them to sharpen their integer skills,” helium said.
District officials said that laptops from brands specified arsenic Dell, Acer, and HP would beryllium provided to students. The laptops are powered with Intel i3/AMD Ryzen 3 Processor, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD (Solid-State Drives), Windows 11 Home Strategic and BOSS Linux OS and MS Office 365. Also, a six-month escaped subscription for Perplexity Pro AI level is provided. Officials said that students tin marque usage of the laptop successful assorted fields including accusation exertion (IT), bundle development, integer marketing, coding, graphic designing, web designing, freelancing, and artificial quality (AI).
Among districts, Tiruvannamalai has the highest fig of 5,102 beneficiaries, followed by Vellore (3,124 students), Ranipet (2,543 students), and Tirupattur (1,600 students). Most of the beneficiaries are last twelvemonth students of authorities arts and subject colleges arsenic escaped laptops volition assistance them go entrepreneurs erstwhile they implicit graduation, officials said.
