gurgaon some panchayat leaders parents and teachers have written to the government demanding withdrawal of the digital tablets that were given to students of class 10 to 12 as the devices were being misused by the teenagersin letters to the additional chief secretary anand mohan saran over the past weekend they alleged that the gadgets given under the state governments eadhigam scheme were being used to access social media and pornographic websitesunlike the intention of the government to improve the quality of education in government schools through tablet usage students have been found misusing them for pleasure and entertainment they download unwarranted apps which spoil them hence we request you to take back the tablets one of the letters read more than 10 panchayats from jind karnal kaithal sirsa palwal and other districts wrote letters to the acssatpal sindhu head of haryana school lecturers association told toi on monday that many students had bypassed the security software built into the gadgetswhen we collected the tablets from the class 12 students who had passed out we found out that the security wall was bypassed and the students were using the gadget for unacademic purposes including using social media and watching objectionable videos and porn sindhu said we informed the directorate about the same and tried to update the software into the tablets but failed to do so because the sim cards issued by the government mostly run on 2g network some students were able to crack the bypass code themselves and some others took the gadgets to the software shops to have the code hacked he saidover 5 lakh students between classes 10 and 12 were distributed digital devices with free internet data and learning software under the haryana governments eadhigam scheme which was launched by chief minister manohar lal khattar in may 2022 according to the sop the tablets given out would remain the property of the education department and students could keep them as long as they were enrolled at the government schoolthe government had said that the devices were equipped with a mobile device management system mdms to block access to online content other than the information related to their studiesa parent from pai village in kaithal ajay also floated an open letter to the government on sunday saying that the tablets should be taken back by august 15 if not these tablets will be put inside the vehicles of local mlas mps and ministers the letter readasked about the opposition haryana education minister kanwar pal gujjar said the government was not responsible if the students were misusing the tablets and parents must supervise their children