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 Patna: They got the latest version of the laptops with
all sorts of facilities, but they do not know how to
handle it. Now they are waiting for a trainer to train
them. Arrangements are being made to hold a training
session for legislators of Bihar for the optimum use
of the laptops.
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Speaker Uday Narayan Choudhary told Press that though
the laptops have arrived yet he had asked the company
concerned to install some extra softwares into them so
that the utility of these computers increases.
They would also get accessories like printer, mouse
and a SIM card for the internet facility. The MLAs
would now remain updated of all the information like
government schemes and their status in various
assembly constituencies.
It needs to be mentioned that sometimes back the state
cabinet has sanctioned over Rs 2.5 crore for giving
laptops to 243 MLAs and 74 members of the Bihar
Legislative Council (MLCs). Each laptop costs around
Rs 74,000. This includes the cost of training. The
legislators will have to surrender the laptops after
the expiry of their terms. But only God knows what
will be the condition of these laptops two and a half
years from now when the election is to take place.
However, those willing to pay the depreciated price of
the laptops have been given the option to keep their
computers.
Media reports say that though the MLCs have already
been given the laptops, they have not yet started
using them because of the absence of training. Quite a
few of them had taken away the laptops without getting
necessary softwares installed in them and are now
returning them to get them fully loaded.
The Speaker, however, is hopeful that the MLAs would
soon learn how to operate laptops as they learnt
mobile phones.
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