New Delhi: The Rs500 computers are being developed under the government's National Mission on Education through Information Communication Technology, which envisages providing broadband connectivity to about 20,000 institutions, including 100 central educational institutions. The ministry will provide the computers to educational institutions at subsidised rates, and it will produce e-content which will be made available cheaper for students.
About 100 central institutions will get internet connectivity free while more than 10,000 departments of 420 universities will be provided 10-25 mbps connectivity at highly subsidised rates.
IITs and IISc, Bangalore, have created quality material on courses which the ministry feels can be of great use for engineering students. Books and lectures will be available in DVDs. The ministry will promote 'virtual laboratories' through which a student enrolled in colleges where facilities for practical training are unavailable can benefit through practicals in other institutes.
In April 2006, Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Laboratory had made a presentation before the Planning Commission, seeking to sell one million laptops at a cost of $100 per unit for children. The ministry had said India did not have funds for such experiments and it would prefer to make its own low-cost computers.
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