aakash 2 tablet

Union human resource development (HRD) ministry will be launching Aakash-2 tablets in April-May this year, Union minister of state, HRD, Dr D Purandeswari, said this here on Friday.

Six months after ministry of human resources and development formally launched Aakash tablet, barely a few hundred units have reached the hands of students.

HRD ministry has decided to offer upgraded aakash 2 tablets as reward to student volunteers who helped push the government’s digitisation agenda post-demonetisation.

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said, (via video conference), "Aakash is no longer just a device that only consumes content.Through the efforts of IIT-B, Aakash is now a device that creates content." .

Technophiles in the city will have to wait till November end to get their eager hands on Aakash, the much-hyped, made in India, low-cost tablet.

Datawind concedes Aakash tablet, which is supposed to digitize the way students study in India, has not been a success in its first version. But it squarely blames IIT-Rajasthan, the nodal agency overlooking the project, for the fiasco.

A year after Odisha placed order for 50,000 Aakash tablets for use in educational institutions, the state has not received even one of the low cost gadgets from the Centre.

Christened Aakash or the Low-Cost Access Device, the tablet developed by IIT, Rajasthan and other leading institutions, packs all common features found in Android tablets.

Teaching faculty of city engineering colleges have appreciated the low-cost Aakash 2 launched on Sunday after the concluding session of the two -day Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) nationwide workshop.

The low-cost tablet with the name of a surface-to-air missile can be a gamechanger for India’s digital have-nots. But without proper planning, Aakash’ may just turn out to be another dud.

The foundation stone laying ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar where Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal were to share dais has been called off.

The Indian Telephone Industry plant in Rae Bareli is all set to get a fresh lease of life as the Union HRD ministry has shortlisted it as one of the manufacturing units for its ambitious Aakash-2 tablets.

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After much hype over the cost-effectiveness of pocket-sized wonder tablet Aakash, it is time for college students to formally rate the effectiveness of the gadget.

In response to the notice, IIT-J has filed an anti-suit injunction in the ADM court here seeking restraint on DataWind from filing the suit.

However, passage of time brought down the work orders.And now nearly 90% of the plant and the working hands lie idle.

Mumbai college students will now be able to purchase the Aakash computer tablet, which was launched in October, at just Rs 1,138. While the market price of the low-cost tablet is Rs 2,500, students will get it a much lower price.

It is going to be a politically action-packed weekend for Gujarat. While chief minister Narendra Modi will share dais with Union minister for human resources development Kapil Sibal in Gandhinagar on Saturday, Modi and Gujarat Pradesh Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia will be in Kutch on Friday.

HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday expressed concern about the failure of big states in implementing the Right to Education Act.

The man who created the cost-effective Aakash tablet dreams to take the ambitious idea further.