thiruvananthapuram a total of 20000 classrooms in the state schools would go hitech by january next year as part of kerala governments hitech school projecttender proceedings for the procurement of 60250 laptops and 43750 multimedia projectors to transform classrooms in 4775 schools into hitech ones has been completed by the kerala infrastructure and technology for education kite formerly itschool project of the state general education departmentwith the issue of the supply orders for 60250 laptops and 43750 projectors kite has completed all the activities for converting 20000 classrooms into hitech ones by the month of january 2018 vice chairman and executive director of kite k anvar sadath said in a release herethe programme was to transform 45000 classrooms in 4775 schools in a phased manneras many as 4775 government and governmentaided schools to be covered under this programme include 2685 high schools 1701 higher secondary schools and 389 vocational higher secondary schoolsadhering to kite director board decision the purchase orders for the laptops and multimedia projectors was released to the successful bidders today a press release said herethe competitive bidding in the national level tendering of laptops and projectors saw the active participation of top 4 major brands in laptops and 3 leading brands in projectorsout of these bidders the best price for laptop was quoted by acs technologies for the acer model laptop and uneecops technologies benq model projector for the projectors it saidstate public sector keltron the l2 bidder in projector has agreed to match the lowest price and hence as per the tender conditions 40 per cent of the orders for projectors would be released to themthe technical committee chaired by prof jayasankar constituted by the government had supervised the tender proceedings the release saidin the detailed project report of hitech school programme approved by kerala infrastructure investment fund board for a total estimated cost of rs 49350 crore an amount of rs 29995 crore was set apart for laptops and projectors