aakash tablet

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

Improved version of the aakash tablet is on the anvil after the successful launch of three versions, a "fantastic initiative" of the HRD ministry, HRD minister M M Pallam Raju said here today.

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.

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.

The Aakash Android Application Development Programme (AAADP) is being be conducted by the Centre for Continuing Education in Fisat.

The Kerala-based Federal Institute of Science And Technology will contribute 25 new project ideas to IIT Bombay, for bettering aakash tablet.

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.

The easy-on- the-pocket, aakash tablet, didn't come anywhwere near the expectations of the city students. The improved version of Aakash has still not reached city college students, turning their excitement into a long ordeal.

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.

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." .

Chief minister Arjun Munda's announcement of distributing tablet PC's to every student who passes Class X board exams in the state on Jharkhand's Foundation Day on Thursday has received accolades from all sections of society.

BSNL on Friday announced it would bring three tablets in partnership with Pantel, a company based in Noida. Of the three, the cheapest one will be sold for Rs 3,250, a few hundred rupees more than the commercial version of aakash tablet.

The University of Mumbai has so far received around 25,000 requests for the low-cost computing device ‘Aakash’ tablets. The cost of an ‘Aakash’ tablet is Rs 1138.

The low-cost indigenous aakash tablet will now help make class-room teaching in engineering institutes more effective. Teaching faculties of the institutes will be trained in effective use of the device.

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.

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.

Indian-origin CEO of Datawind, the maker of India's low-cost tablet Aakash, Suneet Singh Tuli and Massachusettes Institute of Technology professor Anant Agarwal have been named by Forbes magazine among the 15 "classroom revolutionaries" who are using innovative technologies to reinvent education for students and teachers globally.

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.

Had Aakash I, a low cost access-cum-computing device (LCAD) been obtained by IIT-Jodhpur on time by November 2011, work on its advanced version Aakash II would have begun.