Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on 27th February launched the free laptop scheme for students for the academic year 2018-19.
During this academic year, about 15.18 lakh students will be given free laptops.
The government took a policy decision to give away the laptop to students of Class XI from this year onwards to benefit 5.12 lakh students in government and government-aided schools.
From this year onwards students studying in class XI of government and government-aided schools along with class XII students, students in first year of government and government-aided polytechnics, and Class XI and XII students in government and government-aided differently abled schools would obtain this benefit.