Low-Cost Laptops set to Roll Out After 6 years: Six years after it was conceived, the first batch of 10,000 laptops – called the HRD low cost of entry-cum-computing device – would be delivered at IIT-Rajasthan at the end of June, and during the next four months would be available at Rs 90,000 each in 2200.
The announcement was made ??Wednesday at the conference of education ministers of state. “Ministry officials said once the supply of one lakh units is made??, each state would have 3000 pieces. The Center to subsidize 50% of the cost. Indeed, a student would have to pay Rs 1100 for the gadget. Officials said production of one lakh laptops has been done in India.
As for cost escalation on the price earlier promised Rs 1,500, officials said, it is due to the rising cost of inputs. “But once more orders are placed, the price would be renegotiated and reduced to Rs 1, 500,”an official said. IIT-Rajasthan is the nodal institute for designing and monitoring the progress of the manufacture of these gadgets.