Free Laptops Ready for distribution to Tamil Nadu Students

Free Laptops Ready for distribution to Tamil Nadu Students

Students of Tamil Nadu are hereby informed that the State Government of Tamil
Nadu is ready to Dispatch 97,000 Free Laptops for Students in the Academic year
2011-2012. As Per the Sources the Government has Planned to Distribute 9.12 Lakh
Laptops This year and had set the Target to issue 68 Lakh Laptops in the Next
four years.

Through tendering process last year, selected six vendors – Lenovo India (3,00,000
laptops); HCL Infosystems and Acer India (2,00,000 each); RP Infosystems (75,000);
Hewlett-Packard India (approximately 66,000) and Wipro (50,000) The original spec
for the laptops to be given away free was an Intel Pentium Dual Core P6200
equivalent with 2.1 GHz clock speed, 2GB RAM, 320GB hard disk and a 14? screen, an
inbuilt camera, 2 hour battery backup, along with a customised backpack.

Tamil Nadu government’s free laptop scheme was launched on September 15th by Tamil
Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. The Laptop Configuration, Specification which
is offered to Students really good. The Government has planned to distribute 9.12
lakh laptops this year and balance of 68 lakhs laptops in the next four years.
Nearly 6,600 HP laptops had been distributed on Sep 15th. Now nearly 97,000 Laptops
are ready for next dispatch to schools and colleges under Tamil Nadu State Government
Free Laptops distribution scheme. In Tamil Nadu distribution Process of free laptop
to college and school students for the year 2012 will be started soon. The news says
that 9.07 lakhs of laptop ready for distribution.