Laptops for Kerala MLAs,payment later

Three years back,the CPM had opposed the use of laptops in the Assembly,but on Tuesday the CPM-led government distributed brand new laptops to all the 141 Assembly members....

Three years back,the CPM had opposed the use of laptops in the Assembly,but on Tuesday the CPM-led government distributed brand new laptops to all the 141 Assembly members.

After a single-day session,which lasted for five minutes,Assembly members walked out with HCL Intel Core2 Duo laptops with Linux operating system,which Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has been advocating for.

Speaker K Radhakrishnan said a final decision on whether the laptops should be given free of cost is still pending.

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Training in using the laptops would be given to the members,if required. Printer was not supplied along with the laptops. The MLAs have been asked to forward requests for wireless internet connection.

Three years back,when Congress legislator T N Prathapan read out his speech from a laptop,CPM member Prakashan Master raised a point of order against using the gadget.

As the issue triggered a din in the House,the Speaker,a CPM nominee,asked the Congress legislator to turn off the laptop and address the House in the conventional manner.

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