Laptop-e Scheme(LES-GOA)

Overview

About LES-GOA

The Laptop-e Scheme does not put money into a bank account. It puts a machine into a student's hands, specified by the Government, bought on a state tender, and handed over through the higher secondary school the student already attends. The family's part is an application on the school's prescribed form, two parent documents on judicial stamp paper, and a registration fee deposit whose amount the scheme document never states. Whether the scheme is still supplying laptops is the harder question, and the answer is not printed on any Goa education page.

The Laptop-e Scheme lives inside the Directorate of Education's Planning Section scheme document rather than on a page of its own, and that placement explains a lot about how it behaves (Directorate of Education, Planning Section schemes). The Directorate's Schemes and Scholarships index publishes section-wise files, and Laptop-e appears only inside the Planning Section one, with no separate notification, application form or calendar beside it (Schemes and Scholarships, Directorate of Education).

What the document sets out is narrow and practical. A student of Std XI in a recognised higher secondary school gets an entry-level portable computer so that learning can run through the internet and other portable media, so that the teaching infrastructure the schools already have, or are due to get, is used to the full, and so that the student picks up skill-sets aimed at employment or self-employment. The administering body is the Directorate of Education, which runs school education in Goa, and not the Directorate of Higher Education, because a Class XI student in Goa is still inside the school system.

Its current standing is where the honest answer has to sit. The Government of Goa's scheme-by-scheme budget document for 2025-26 walks the School Education demand one scheme at a time, and no Laptop-e line appears anywhere in that walk, while three schemes written up in the same Planning Section file do each carry their own entry and their own budget head: the Smart Classroom Project, the grant for the Establishment of School Complex, and Student Counselling (Explanatory Memorandum on the Schemes, Government of Goa). The silence is therefore about this scheme, not about how the budget treats the Planning Section. The scheme document reads in the present tense; the state's current spending list does not carry it, and no Goa government page could be found confirming that machines are being handed over under this name today. Treat the scheme as documented rather than as demonstrably open, and ask the school office before assembling anything.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

Neither the Planning Section document nor the myScheme record carries a date of any kind here: nothing opens, nothing closes, and there is no annual cycle a higher secondary school could collect forms against. What the guidelines carry instead is the opposite of a live calendar, because the eligibility clause names the benefit as belonging to one academic year, and that year has long since passed. Until the Directorate publishes a notice, the only date a family can work to is whatever the school office sets for its own collection, if it is collecting at all.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The test is the class, not the household. A student of Std XI in a recognised higher secondary school in Goa qualifies, and the guidelines add a clause worth reading twice: students are eligible irrespective of the concessions in their academics (Planning Section schemes). Nothing in the eligibility clause sets an income ceiling, a marks bar, a category quota or a reservation of seats by taluka.

That leaves the school's recognition status as the only condition a family cannot fix by filling a form. A student enrolled somewhere the Directorate does not recognise as a higher secondary school falls outside the scheme regardless of marks or need. The Secondary School Certificate Examination marksheet the file carries is an attachment, not a qualifying score, which is why a Std XI student who scraped through Class X sits inside this scheme and a Std XII student with a flawless sheet sits outside it.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

The Government publishes no exclusion list for this scheme, and the absence is real rather than an oversight of the summary. What the procedure excludes instead is anyone outside the routing: the application is submitted to the higher secondary school and has to be approved by the Head of the Institution before it moves, so there is no route to the Directorate that starts with the family. A student who is not in Std XI, and a student whose institution will not forward the file, are both out, without any clause needing to say so.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

The benefit attaches to one class and is supplied once. The scheme document publishes no renewal clause, no second machine, no continuation into Class XII, and no provision for replacing a supplied system that stops working.

What you get

Award & benefits

This is a supply scheme, not a transfer. The student receives one entry-level notebook or laptop with the processor, drive, connectivity and preloaded operating system that the Government specifies, backed by a support commitment from the software vendor; the family does not choose the brand, the configuration or the dealer, because the machines come through state tenders. The myScheme record for the scheme carries the benefit as an in-kind provision and lists no direct benefit transfer (myScheme, Laptop-e Scheme).

Against that sits the one figure a family most wants and cannot get. The scheme requires a registration fee to be deposited as decided by the Government, and neither the Planning Section document nor the myScheme record states what that amount is. There is no published slab, no category-wise concession and no waiver clause.

• Provision of one (1) entry-level portable computer system (Notebook or Laptop).
• Details of Equipment
• The system must be equipped with at least mid-level Processors.
• The system must include a DVD-ROM Drive.
• The system must include Wi-Fi connectivity.
• The system must include multimedia speakers.
• The system must have a 15-inch or more screen size.
• The system must have a requisite Preloaded Open Standards Supported Operating System.
• The operating system must be backed by premium or comprehensive technical support for at least three (3) years from reputed software companies such as Windows Operating System.
• Benefits are derived immediately after the approval of the Government, depending on the availability of funds and after following all codal formalities.
• The portable computer systems are supplied immediately to the students in various higher secondaries once tenders are decided and supply orders are issued to the various suppliers.
• _The applicant must deposit a refundable Registration Fee as decided by the Government._
• _The fee, once deposited, is not refunded in any case by the Government._
• _The student, parent, or guardian shall give a valid receipt of the portable computer system received to the Education Department._
• _This receipt must be submitted after obtaining the portable computer system through the respective Head of the Institute._

What to prepare

Documents required

Two of the required items cannot be produced inside the school, and they are the ones that hold files up. The concurrence and the affidavit are both the parent's or guardian's, both go on twenty rupee judicial stamp paper, and judicial stamp paper is bought outside the school, so a family that leaves them to the submission day will miss it. The marksheet is self-attested, which means no gazetted officer's signature is needed on it.

One document on the list is not part of the application at all. The valid receipt for the portable computer system is given to the Education Department after the machine has been handed over, through the Head of the Institution, and it closes the transaction rather than opening it. Treating it as something to arrange in advance is a common way to misread the list.

Step by step

How to apply

The route is offline from end to end. The student submits the application in the prescribed format, with the parent's concurrence and affidavit and the self-attested marksheet, to the higher secondary school; the Head of the Institution approves the form and recommends the supply; the Directorate of Education processes what the school forwards; and once tenders are decided and supply orders are issued, the suppliers deliver the machines to students in the higher secondaries (Planning Section schemes).

Once the form is in, there is nothing to log in to. The myScheme record lists the application mode as offline and carries no application link, so a Laptop-e file is given no acknowledgement number and has no online state a family could look up (myScheme, Laptop-e Scheme). Whoever accepted the form in the school office is the only person who can say where it has reached, and the Directorate of Education is the single escalation above that. Ask the office for the date it forwarded the batch upward, because a paper file is traced by that date and by nothing else.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Nothing in the scheme document ranks applicants. The eligibility clause is a status test rather than a score, and the document attaches no cut-off to it, no comparative list, no income check and no reservation of places by taluka; what carries a file forward is that it is complete and that the Head of the Institution has approved and recommended it. What limits the scheme instead is money and procurement. The document states that students derive the benefit after government approval, depending on the availability of funds and after all codal formalities are followed, and that supply follows once tenders are decided. As written, this is a supply-constrained scheme rather than a competitive one, and a completed application is not by itself a machine.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The registration fee is the condition to read closely, and the record is not tidy about it. The scheme's conditions call the payment a deposit, and the document checklist on the myScheme record calls the same payment a non-refundable registration fee, so a family reading the page meets the word both ways (myScheme, Laptop-e Scheme). The scheme document settles it in its own next sentence: the fee, once deposited, is not refunded in any case by the Government (Planning Section schemes). Money handed over here should be treated as spent.

The remaining obligations start on the day the machine arrives, not on the day the form goes in. A valid receipt for the machine has to reach the Education Department through the Head of the Institution, and the specification stays whatever the Government tendered, so a family that wants a different screen, processor or operating system is buying that machine itself. Supply remains subject to the availability of funds throughout.

Get help

Contact

The school comes first. The Head of the Institution holds the application, the approval and the delivery, and for a student's own file that office is the only useful first call.

Above it stands the Directorate of Education, which publishes one contact block for the whole office and no separate line for any individual scheme: dir-educ.goa@nic.in, 0832-2416023, Porvorim Goa-403521 (Directorate of Education, Government of Goa). The Planning Section of the Directorate is the section whose scheme file carries Laptop-e, so a question about whether the scheme is being implemented in a given year belongs there rather than with a zonal or taluka office.

Source

Official links

Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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Disclaimer

Disclaimer

Scheme details are compiled from myScheme, the Government of India’s official scheme-discovery platform, and are reproduced without alteration. Amounts, deadlines and eligibility change between cycles, so always confirm on the official links above before applying. Expertie does not process applications or charge fees.

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