AAKASH 2 LAUNCHED,AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS FOR Rs.1130
The device is priced at Rs 2263 and the government subsidises it by 50 per cent and it will be distributed to students at Rs 1,130. The price may even drop down after the state government subsidy. Over 15,000 teachers at 250 colleges have been trained on how to use the Aakash for education. It will be used for classroom teaching.
In the initial phase,one lakh devices will be provided to students of engineering colleges and universities and subsequently these will be distributed to others. By next five to six years about 22 crore students in India will get the device. The first version of Aakash called Aakash 1 as launched by the government in October 2011. However many problems were detected on the device by the users, so an updated version is released.
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