1) The Tamil Nadu government plans to distribute free laptops to over 2.5 lakh government and government-aided school teachers in the state. 
2) School Education Minister KA Sengottaiyan said that an announcement will be made after discussing with Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami.
3) Currently, the school education department gives away free laptops to all teachers who are post-graduates for them to be able to teach classes 11 and 12 using online resources.
4) Additionally, as part of a central government initiative to make classrooms smarter, all blackboards in the state will be switched to smart boards, the minister was quoted as saying.
5) At a function on Thursday - which was also Teacher’s Day - over 300 teachers from Tamil Nadu received Dr Radhakrishnan award for the best teacher which includes prize money of Rs 10,000, a certificate and a silver medal.