Following the remarkable success of Aakash tablets across the country, government has decided to bring up its successor Aakash-II in april this year. This will be an upgraded version of the previous Aakash tablets with better performance depending upon the user's feedback received.
As per HRD minister Kapil Sibbal, there has been an enormous number of orders for this least cost tablet all over the country and even abroad. Depending upon the feedback received, the government may need to manufacture these tablets in significantly large quantity and for the same cause, HRD minister has asked several other companies to put their effort in manufacturing the same.
We all know that, Sibbal had launched the world's cheapest tablet, Aakash, last year with much fanfare. The device costing USD 35 (about Rs 2,000) was developed as part of the 'The National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technologies (NME-ICT)' of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
Quoting the earlier tablet release, government stated a beyond expected market results with about one lakh orders in place.
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