No joke, I swear. Indians are developing a laptop that will cost $10 that will run applications on higher education. What with the TATA Nano car priced at $2500, this cannot be a joke. The Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore and the Indian Institute of technology, Chennai are jointly involved on the ‘project’.

D. Purandeswari, Minister of State for Higher Education announced this project at Delhi. A statement like this obviously makes everyone suspicious, so when asked the config, they did not comment. This maybe made on government subsidy.

The project is based on the campaign National Mission in Education through ICT. The government is also creating devices of low power-consuming and low cost. As to internet access, government is trying to provide the bandwidth for free for educational purposes.

For the second most populated country on the planet, the internet access for the masses is low. Many organisations are trying to bring low cost laptops.

India did not sign for the OLPC program stating reasons of misuse and harmful in the analytical growth of the child. Can India do another TATA ?