Sunday 5 February 2012

Sibal Promises Aakash Tablet Free For Students

Latest News From New Delhi: Days after the big bang launch of the Aakash Tablet by the government, Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday said that ‘next generation Aakash’ tablets will be given free of cost to the students.

Currently the government has offered the tablet for Rs 1,500 and soon it would extend 50 percent subsidy whereas the school will bear the remaining cost to distribute the tablets for free.

Sibal said, “In the next five years, the government aims to provide free and compulsory primary education to millions of children.”

“Schools will be open in all rehabilitated colonies and slums,” Sibal added.Read More

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