Now get a laptop for Rs 500 only

Posted on January 31, 2009. Filed under: technology | Tags: 2, 2gb, 419, Arjun singh, department of telecommunication, education, ethernet, human resources development, ict, indian institute of technology Chennai, information and communication, laptop, low cost laptop, mission, nano, national mission, New Delhi, Rs 500, tata motors, technology, united progressive alliance, universities, vellore institute of technology, wifi |

New Delhi, Jan 31, 2009: When three days from now Indian Minister for Human Resources Development Arjun Singh launches National Mission on Education through Information and Communication in the holy city of Tirupati it will write a new chapter in India’s quest for entering technology age.

National Mission on Education through Information and Communication is probably India’s ruling alliance United Progressive Alliance’s most ambitious plan in its five year tenure. Its decision to make available Rs 500 laptop to students and educational institutions is simply unbelievable.

The government has decided to produce rupees five hundred laptop on mass scale that has been developed by several top technical institutions in the country including Indian Institute of Technology Chennai as Vellore Institute of Technology besides a few other institutions.

Though there are not many details about the new laptop under this project but sketchy details say that the laptops will have 2GB memory, WiFi Ethernet. More details are set to be revealed to the world when Arjun Singh unveils the prototype of the promised laptop.

National Mission on Education through Information and Communication as the government has said will work in close cooperation and collaboration with other Missions/Schemes such as the National Translation Mission, Vocational Education Mission, National Knowledge Network, Scheme of ICT to avoid any duplication and attain synergy. It would operate through inter-departmental and multi-disciplinary approach. On the one hand, the Mission would create high quality e-content for the target groups and on the other, it would simultaneously extend computer infrastructure and connectivity to over 18000 colleges in the country including each of the departments of 419 universities/deemed universities and institutions of national importance on a single point rental basis through the Department of Telecommunications (DOT), in a manner that would permit their seamless interaction with a integrated National Knowledge Network. The advent of very low-cost-low-power consuming access cum computing devices, would further enhance the reach of the network.

Tata Motor’s Nano car may not have hit the market even several months after its intended launch, but this nano computer should be a reality within a very short time.

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