Use smartphones, tablets for enhancing knowledge, minister tells students

Kanpur: Minister for industrial development Satish Mahana has urged the students, who had received smartphones or tablets at the function held at CSJM University auditorium, to use them to increase their knowledge and in searching jobs instead of misusing them.
The minister at a function held here on Monday distributed gadgets to 2800 students from different colleges.Presenting the equipment to around 516 students, he stated that most of the people have got smartphones but the question is whether they are used for a purpose or not.
Mahana while quoting PM Narendra Modi, at an IIT function held here had said: “Presume what will be the status of India when we will be celebrating 100 years of the country’s freedom”. Therefore, be sincere for your future as well as the future of the country, Mahana said and added students of other colleges and institutes covered under this scheme would get gadgets in their respective schools.
Speaking on the occasion, district magistrate Vishakh G said that the programme to distribute smartphones or tablets was organized for the students studying in various colleges of the district in order to educate them and make them a self-starter. Around 1.30 students had got themselves registered on the DG portal, the DM further said.
Registrar of CSJMU Kanpur Anil Kumar said as many as 1292 tablets and 1500 smartphones would be distributed soon . He said the minister Satish Mahana distributed the gadgets to around 516 students of Christ Church College, BND College, DAV College and the DG Girls’ College.