The Uttar Pradesh cabinet gave its consent for issuing a letter of indent to Hewlett-Packard for the supply of 1,500,000 laptops that are to be distributed to the 1,500,000 students who have passed out of class 12 in 2013 and have taken admission for higher studies. HP bagged the contract after it had quoted the lowest price of INR 19,058 for every laptop including taxes.