India will produce $ 10 laptops

The Indian government said it would produce laptops for students with a shocking price of $ 10.

The laptop that India intends to produce will only have 2GB of memory, 2W power consumption but still have wireless internet connectivity.

The unopened laptop was named Sakshat, in Hindu meaning "forward vision". The two agencies that directly implement this project are the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.

Indian students and students will benefit from the project.

The price of 10 USD will be a challenge for all laptop manufacturers in the world. The cheapest laptop in the world currently costs about 170 USD.

Many Indian computer science experts expressed doubts about the feasibility of this statement. According to them, the actual price must be 10 times as stated.

On social networks and technology forums, Sakshat received many comments. "Can India do this? A computer screen has already been priced at $ 20 , " said Rajesh Jain, director of Netcore Solutions.

The production project representative, Agrawal said: there will be a lot of tests to make sure the laptop can perform the basic functions of a laptop. "After passing the tests, Sakshat will be mass produced," Agrawal said.

In 2008, India launched the world's cheapest car, Tato Nano, for $ 2,070 and the cheapest mobile phone, only $ 14. In the past three years, the government has invested more than 850 million dollars to study cheap laptops using the Linux operating system.

Around the world, an American company that once intended to produce an American One Laptop laptop costs less than $ 100 for children. The project was forced to stop because no manufacturer responded to this idea.