| After an Indian company Tata Motors offered the | | | | besides battery operated system.The device will |
| cheapest car Nano at $ 25OO to the world, India has | | | | support functions like video web conferencing and |
| devoloped the cheapest laptop at $35.But this time the | | | | multimedia content viewing. |
| initiative was not from a corporate but by the Indian | | | | The motherboard of the laptop was developed by a |
| Government. | | | | student at Vellore Institute of technology and later |
| Indian government has unveiled the worlds cheapest | | | | fabricated at IIT Kanpur.The lap top has reached |
| laptop developed by team of experts of its' premier | | | | developmental stage and presently cost $35 and the |
| engineering institutes like IIT's at Kharagpur, Chennai, | | | | indian government is in talks with global manufacturers |
| Kanpur, Mumbai, IISc Bangalore who was brought | | | | for mass production for making it available to students |
| together the Human Resources Development ministry | | | | by 2011at a reduced price of US 10-20!!! The |
| as part of its strategic initiative to provide free | | | | government had earlier received poor responses from |
| content.The lap top has all the basic features including | | | | corporates for its mission to provide free content to |
| a built in key board, a 2GB memory, WiFi connectivity, | | | | users and it took it upon itself to develop the |
| USB ports and is powered by a 2watt system.It is a | | | | laptop.This initiative will have a multiplier effect on the |
| seven and nine inch touchscreen gadget and is linux | | | | Indian government's initiatives to spread computer |
| based, has internet browsers, pdf and video | | | | literacy to its 1.2 billion population. |
| conferencing facilities can also run on solar power | | | | |