Patna, (Bihar Times): Now all the 317 legislators of Bihar––243 members of legislative assembly and 74 members of the legislative council will be armed with the laptops.

Incidentally, there is no dearth of both illiterate and computer illiterate legislators in the state assembly, yet the Nitish government has sanctioned more than Rs 2.37 crore for the purchase of laptops for them.

According to Girish Shankar, principal cabinet secretary the legislators will be provided laptops before the end of the current financial year, that is, March 31, 2008.

He said that each laptop costs Rs.74,356, including fees for training, and the government had made it clear that the legislators will have to surrender the laptops at the end of their terms. However after the expirty of the term the legislators would be allowed to keep the laptops provided they pay the depreciated value.

Now it is to be seen as to what use will some of our honourable legislators do with the laptops as their shoulders are more used to carrying guns, rather than handy computers.

This question was raised at the time when the then Rari Devi government decided to give personal computers to all the legislators of the state. There was much hue and cry in a section of media over this useless expenditure.

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