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| Dignitaries launching 'Aakash 2' tablet |
New Delhi: Indian President Pranab Mukherjee took the occasion of
National Education Day to release and dedicate to the nation, the innovative
and modestly-priced Aakash Version 2.0 tablet in New Delhi today.
Unveiled in the presence of M.M. Pallam Raju, Union Minister
of Human Resource Development, Jitin Prasada and Shashi Tharoor,
Ministers of State for Human Resource Development, Aakash Version 2.0 is a
full-fledged tablet computer .
IIT Bombay along with the Ministry of Human Resource
Development has created several useful educational applications for the tablet.
Teachers and students in the remotest corners of India can join a classroom and
benefit from lectures delivered by the best teachers.
Some of the
initiatives in technology-enabled education that can run on Aakash Version 2.0
tablet include Ten Thousand Teachers Training Programme – a live video
interaction with participants , Clicker applications for real time feedback in
country-wide classroom, Daisy Books for differently-abled students, NCERT
content , GNU Khata- an accounting package for barefoot accountants in rural
areas and Scholarship Portal integrated with Aadhar.
Aakash 2 will be available for students at a price tag of Rs 1,130.