<p>The lure of free laptops has been driving the youths to commit forgery in the state.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The officers in Lucknow have received reports that the students are trying to get the laptops by giving fake intermediate mark sheets. <br /><br />Sources said a student of a local college here had made an attempt to get the machine on the basis of a fake mark sheet when chief minister Akhilesh Yadav had distributed the laptops here a few months ago.<br /><br />The student, identified as Veer Pal, would have succeeded in his attempt. However, but he lost the fake mark sheet a couple of days before the distribution of the machine. <br /><br />He lodged an FIR and tried to persuade the officers to include his name in the beneficiaries’ list by submitting a copy of the FIR.<br /><br />But they turned him away and asked to get a duplicate mark sheet from the UP Board. It later turned out that Veer Pal had failed to clear intermediate examinations and had got a fake mark sheet prepared from some gang in Allahabad.<br /><br />He also said several other students, who had also failed, had similar mark sheets. The officers are now in a fix as many such students might already have succeeded in getting the machine with fake certificates.<br /><br />79,491 laptops given<br /><br />Under the ambitious scheme to distribute free laptops to students who clear class 12 exams in Uttar Pradesh, against a target of more than 15 lakh laptops to be distributed free only 79,491 have been given away.<br /><br />Official sources cite frequent changes in the state secondary education department and the dwindling interest of the political leadership as the main reasons behind the slow pace of the project.<br /><br />They say that 3.15 lakh laptops delivered for distribution in 48 more districts are lying in godowns and stores for want of finalisation of dates for distribution. <br /><br />After a lull of several months, the distribution resumed in June. The last time these were distributed in Firozabad on June 24.<br /></p>
<p>The lure of free laptops has been driving the youths to commit forgery in the state.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The officers in Lucknow have received reports that the students are trying to get the laptops by giving fake intermediate mark sheets. <br /><br />Sources said a student of a local college here had made an attempt to get the machine on the basis of a fake mark sheet when chief minister Akhilesh Yadav had distributed the laptops here a few months ago.<br /><br />The student, identified as Veer Pal, would have succeeded in his attempt. However, but he lost the fake mark sheet a couple of days before the distribution of the machine. <br /><br />He lodged an FIR and tried to persuade the officers to include his name in the beneficiaries’ list by submitting a copy of the FIR.<br /><br />But they turned him away and asked to get a duplicate mark sheet from the UP Board. It later turned out that Veer Pal had failed to clear intermediate examinations and had got a fake mark sheet prepared from some gang in Allahabad.<br /><br />He also said several other students, who had also failed, had similar mark sheets. The officers are now in a fix as many such students might already have succeeded in getting the machine with fake certificates.<br /><br />79,491 laptops given<br /><br />Under the ambitious scheme to distribute free laptops to students who clear class 12 exams in Uttar Pradesh, against a target of more than 15 lakh laptops to be distributed free only 79,491 have been given away.<br /><br />Official sources cite frequent changes in the state secondary education department and the dwindling interest of the political leadership as the main reasons behind the slow pace of the project.<br /><br />They say that 3.15 lakh laptops delivered for distribution in 48 more districts are lying in godowns and stores for want of finalisation of dates for distribution. <br /><br />After a lull of several months, the distribution resumed in June. The last time these were distributed in Firozabad on June 24.<br /></p>