CM Amarinder Singh distributes smart phones to Class 12 students

  • | Thursday | 13th August, 2020

At 26 different places, the ministers and MLAs distributed 20 smartphones each to mark the launch of the scheme, which marked the fulfillment of another major poll promise of the Congress government in the state.

A long due Punjab’s ?92 crores ‘Punjab Smart Connect Scheme’ was finally rolled out on Wednesday by distributing free mobile handsets to Class 12 students of government schools.

‘Punjab Smart Connect Scheme’ saw the light of the day more than three years after the Congress came to power in the state. The CM Amarinder Singh personally handed over handsets to six students.

At 26 different places, the ministers and MLAs distributed 20 smartphones each to mark the launch of the scheme, which marked the fulfillment of another major poll promise of the Congress government in the state.

When the Congress listed smartphones as a poll promise, it was to provide global connectivity and empower the poor youth who could not afford them, said Amarinder, adding that in the present pandemic situation, these phones had assumed a bigger importance as they had become a necessity for education continuity.


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