lucknow free laptops for meritorious students which was one of the poll promises of the bjp today found no place in the second budget too presented by the yogi adityanath government on friday the government also ripped the underprivileged students off the free sweaters and socks the government was mired in controversy after they failed to provide the sweaters in time for the year 201718 this year no budgetary provision has been made for both sweaters and socksofficials said it is expected that kids will use the sweater given to them this year for at least two years hence the government didnt earmark anything for this the laptop scheme was stripped off despite the promise made by the bjp in their manifesto an official saidlike last year the government curtailed the kanya vidya dhan scheme leaving the meritorious and poor girl students without any incentives instead a new scheme named as pradhan mantri balika samriddhi yojna meant for meritorious class x and xii girls was proposed by the secondary educationunder the scheme one lakh girls each of class x and class xii were to be benefitted while rs 10000 was to be given to each girl who passed class x rs 20000 was for class xii girls the department had proposed rs 300 crore for the scheme however no provision was made in the budgetthe sp government after coming to power in 2012 launched four schemes for meritorious students particularly girls while two schemes hamari beti uska kal meant for minority kids and padhein betiyan badhein betiyan meant for class x pass girls coming from bpl families ran only for a year kanya vidya dhan and laptop scheme continued until now in 2016 the kanya vidhan dhan too was modified from bpl to only meritorious class xii pass girls but with allocations made in either of the two there is nothing on platter for secondary kids