Govt bats for Aakash 2 @ Rs 1,500

[mmadhankumar]

Government is keen to take Aakash tablet to the people at a cost of Rs 1,500 apiece, Telecom and IT minister KapilSibal said today.

"I asked Rajat Moona (director general, C-DAC) to help us in Aakash. Let us take that Aakash to the people of this country for a sum of Rs 1,500. Each student must have a Aakash in his/her hand so that they can see the world with it," Sibal said at a function here.

At present, the government purchases the device from Datawind, the maker of Aakash tablet PC, at Rs 2,263 apiece. The government will distribute the tablet to students at subsidised rate of Rs 1,130 apiece.

Sibal said that there is need to gain expertise in providing cutting-edge technology at affordable prices to people, and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) should work towards developing such technologies.


Read More: Govt bats for Aakash 2 @ Rs 1,500 - The Times of India

 

[greatsadiq]

For That Price, That TABLET Is Worth... Only Thing Is Screen and RAM Could Have Been Better... and Increase Of Rs 1000 Would Make It Great...

 

[hasanjain]

Akash is a low priced slate available in India to students in the country for a ridiculously low price. Of course, ridiculously low price usually equals ridiculously low specs. However, the Indian government is forging ahead with the fourth iteration of the tablet. The government wants to make a low cost tablet available to the students attending classes in the 25,000 colleges and 400 universities in the land. The suggested specs have been posted to the web sites of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) so that those involved in the production of the slate can comment by July 12th
http://gm.kochar.com/post/New-and-improved-low-priced-Aakash-IV-tablet-is-coming-to-India.aspx

 

[sagarkr]

cud any1 put here the config of Aakash2 pls???

 

[me_saket]

Good update

4 Beta