AP brings Aakash down to earth

Photo: Deccan Chronicle 

Aakash, the world cheapest tablet, will be available to students in the state for only Rs 1,500. Originally priced at Rs 2,500, the state government has offered a subsidy of Rs 1,000 for students to facilitate e-learning.

The discounted tablets will initially be offered to students in state universities, engineering and polytechnic colleges and the government plans to extend the scheme to all private colleges in the future.
The proposal has been sent to the Union HRD ministry which is monitoring the Aakash project.

The tablets were launched by Union minister for HRD Kapil Sibal in October 2011. Designed especially for students with an aim of bridging the “digital divide” between the rich and the poor, the Centre aims to provide the tablets to 22 crore students over the next five years.
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Source: Deccan Chronicle