Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister
for Human Resource Development, Communications and
Information Technology, Government of India, has announced that Aakash tablets will be free in the hands of every student in India.
Union Minister at the India
Semiconductor Association (ISA) Vision Summit 2012 further said that based on
the feedback from Aakash 1, they would be launching Aakash 2 which is a much
better, faster and more efficient version. The current cost of Aakash is Rs.
2,276, for one lakh units. The cost, however, will reduce to Rs.1,500 once the
manufacturing numbers increase to one million. He said that half of cost would
be subsidized by the government and the remaining Rs.750 would be funded by
educational institutions.
Speaking at the occasion union minister said: Today
electronics is the largest and fastest
growing manufacturing industry in the
world. Current global hardware production is around $1.75 trillion and by 2020
it is going to grow up to $2.4 trillion. On the domestic front, electronic
driven industry has emerged as the contributor to national economy. We can
develop semiconductor manufacturing in India since we have the chip design
services available here and enormous high quality human resource. We should be
able to leverage that to ensure that we can develop the semiconductor
manufacturing sector in India.
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