Haryana Government has planned to give tablets free of cost to the children of government schools in view of the current COVID-19 pandemic situation.  

An official spokesperson said that the decision to provide tablets to boys and girls studying in classes 8 to 12 of government schools belonging to all categories including general category, scheduled castes, backward classes as well as minority communities so that they can take advantage of digital education is under consideration of the Haryana Government.  

The spokesperson said that tablets will be distributed on the lines of the library scheme under which the tablets will be the property of government and will be issued to the students, which they will have to return after passing Class 12. 

The tablets will have different types of pre-loaded content such as tests, videos and other materials as well as digital books, which will be as per the courses of government schools.  

This will not only facilitate studying different topics at home but students will be able to receive online education and take online exams as well.