"AAKASH" made enough news in media and so called worlds cheapest tablet pc made by indians.Rumors are that it is totally made by indians. Actually this is not true. Telling you when this idea conceived. First MHRD ministry took the initiative to make a cheapest pc that can be distributed among the poor kids and in rural areas. Then all directors of IIT'S and prestigious administrative officers in HRD started to meet to make strategy on this project.
IIT Rajasthan Director Prof. P.K.Kalra proposed a master plan and now the first part of the project started @ IIT Rajasthan.
the interesting part is ...........
IIT Rajasthan published tender in newspaper and invited several companies to bid on the project several companies came to IIT Rajasthan including intel. Now the challenge was to bid lowest for the project. Intel declined and they said that they can not make a tablet in 1500 Rs. and now a US based company Data Wind accepted and they agreed to make a tablet in 1500 Rs. (includes government subsidy).
Data wind it is US based company but the owner of this company is NRI Sardar and company has it's branches in india too with manufacturing plant in Hyderabaad. This company accepted the deal and now the beginning of this project started.
Facts are iit's are not involved in the manufacturing of the AAKASH it is totally made by this company the second even the chips and technology used in this tablet not unique and not even suggested by IIT's.
Still I am happy because the first consignment of all the "AAKASH tablets" appeared in IIT Rajasthan for testing and we are fortunate that we got "AAKASH" even before the launch of it. We as a whole tested these tablets and we are provided with the full checklist (those things) we would have to check in AAKASH. It was really fantastic that world was dreaming to have it in their hand and it was in our hand.
At the last i want to say it is initial step and there are so many shortcomings in the tablet but please accept it because it is a initial phase and everything takes time with time it would get improved. Various improvement are going on in this project and soon we will see better version of this tablet in market. Improvements are going on and IIT Rajasthan is setting up very advanced lab on the processors that is used in this tablet (ARM processor lab) and soon the technical work will start here on "AAKASH". Definitely we will make it better we need support from all over india and that's all about the AAKASH.
IIT Rajasthan Director Prof. P.K.Kalra proposed a master plan and now the first part of the project started @ IIT Rajasthan.
the interesting part is ...........
IIT Rajasthan published tender in newspaper and invited several companies to bid on the project several companies came to IIT Rajasthan including intel. Now the challenge was to bid lowest for the project. Intel declined and they said that they can not make a tablet in 1500 Rs. and now a US based company Data Wind accepted and they agreed to make a tablet in 1500 Rs. (includes government subsidy).
Data wind it is US based company but the owner of this company is NRI Sardar and company has it's branches in india too with manufacturing plant in Hyderabaad. This company accepted the deal and now the beginning of this project started.
Facts are iit's are not involved in the manufacturing of the AAKASH it is totally made by this company the second even the chips and technology used in this tablet not unique and not even suggested by IIT's.
Still I am happy because the first consignment of all the "AAKASH tablets" appeared in IIT Rajasthan for testing and we are fortunate that we got "AAKASH" even before the launch of it. We as a whole tested these tablets and we are provided with the full checklist (those things) we would have to check in AAKASH. It was really fantastic that world was dreaming to have it in their hand and it was in our hand.
At the last i want to say it is initial step and there are so many shortcomings in the tablet but please accept it because it is a initial phase and everything takes time with time it would get improved. Various improvement are going on in this project and soon we will see better version of this tablet in market. Improvements are going on and IIT Rajasthan is setting up very advanced lab on the processors that is used in this tablet (ARM processor lab) and soon the technical work will start here on "AAKASH". Definitely we will make it better we need support from all over india and that's all about the AAKASH.
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