Akash 2 Tablet Launched in India for RS.1130

 BHOPAL: Teaching faculty of city engineering colleges have appreciated the low-cost Aakash 2 launched on Sunday after the concluding session of the two -day Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) nationwide workshop. Coordinated by the IIT-Mumbai under the National Mission on Education through Information and Technology (NME-ICT), eight city engineering colleges were part of 244 in India that were selected as remote centres for "Aakash in Education" programme. President Pranab Mukherjee launched the tablet after the end of programme.

Faculties at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), IES College of Technology, Sagar Institute of Research and Technology, Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Oriental College of Technology, Truba, Bansal Institute of Research and Technology and NRI Institute of Science and Technology were part of the programme.

The workshop was organised with the objective of helping faculty improve teaching techniques in engineering institutes with the help of newly-launched low-cost indigenous Aakash tablet. They were trained for the effective use of the device during the workshop.


"The workshop has helped me use the Aakash-2 for teaching purposes. It is quite handy which would make the teaching better and effective," Prof Smriti Joshi said. Another teaching faculty, Prof Sonu Lal claimed that the using tablet for teaching will help both students and teachers. "It will make classes more interesting and informative for students," Prof Lal said.

Coming at a price of Rs 1,130 for students, the new version 'Aakash 2', which will be made available to students of engineering colleges and universities to begin with, is now powered by a processor running at 1 GHz, has a 512 MB, a 7 inch capacitive touch screen and a battery working for three hours of normal operations. It has been developed under the aegis of IIT, Bombay with the active support of C-DAC. The device, can also run on Linux operating system, do Aadhar authentication and control a robot from a distant place.SOurce-TOI