Chandigarh, Nov. 29 -- The 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 on Saturday said the decision to provide tablets to boys and girls studying in classes VIII to XII 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 the government and will be issued to the students, which they...