The
Minister of Human Resource Development Dr.D.Purandeswari replied in
present session of Lok Sabha regarding supply of Low Cost Tablet Aakash
to students which was proposed Under the National Mission on Education
through Information Communication Technology (NMEICT) scheme, a Low
Cost-Access-cum-Computing Device (LCAD) named Aakash was launched on
5th October, 2011.
As per information
given by the Minister IIT, Rajsathan which handled this project
procured 1,00,000 tablets in the first phase for supply to Higher
Technical Education Institutions.
After the launch of
this project, feedback were received from the users of these tablets.
It revealed the machine needed improvement in the following aspects.
- heating of the device
- need for longer battery life
- need for capacitive instead of resistive touch screen
- need for better processor etc.
The matter was taken up
with the vendor and he agreed to make changes including upgrading the
processor from 366 MHz Arm 11 based processor to 700 MHz Arm Cortex A8
processor, improving firmware, replacing the battery of 2100 mAH with a
battery of 3200 mAH capacity and replacement of resistive touch screen
with capacitive one with no enhancement in cost. As no payment was made
by IIT Rajasthan to the vendor, hence, no loss has been incurred to the
Government.
Courtesy- Gconnect
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