LATEST NEWS ON UP FREE LAPTOP DISTRIBUTION IN LUCKNOW
LUCKNOW 1 lakh laptops lie idle as Samajwadi Party eyes poll dividends Lucknow 1 lakh laptops await distribution in run-up to Lok Sabha polls. Six weeks after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav launched his much-hyped scheme of free laptops to students who passed class XII board exam last year, over one lakh laptops are lying idle with the government, awaiting distribution. One of the most significant pre-poll promises of the ruling Samajwadi Party, the laptop scheme was launched on March 12 by the Chief Minister when he distributed about 10,000 laptops to students in Lucknow. Since then, the government is yet to decide the dates of laptop distribution in other districts. While officials say that dates for distributing the laptops will be soon decided, sources said that the SP leadership wants to delay it so as to make the distribution close to the Lok Sabha election as possible. SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has publicly said that he e...