Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has directed officials to initiate measures for the distribution of laptops to students belonging to the SC/ST communities in the state’s universities.

The decision was taken during a meeting with the vice-chancellors of state government-affiliated universities and senior officials from the higher education department.

The CM directed P Manivannan, Principal Secretary of the Social Welfare Department to allot a sum of Rs 230 crore for this purpose.

Laptops should be distributed to every student of all communities in universities. Necessary action will be taken for this in coming years, he said; as per ANI.

On establishing new universities in the state, Siddaramaiah said, “Budget allocation is decreasing while the recurring cost is increasing. How can we expect quality education from this? In addition, in the budget of the higher education department, 88 per cent of the grant is used for salaries”.