Aakash tablets at Rs. 2500
Posted on: 04/May/2013 12:24:28 PM
Datawind, the company that has made the low cost Aakash tablets for IIT Bombay, has announced that it is ready to make the next version of Aakash at around Rs. 2,500 per piece. The previous lot costs Rs. 2263 per piece. The next version would have higher specifications and also have a slot for a SIM card, enabling users to make phone calls.
‘As per my information, the committee on Aakash tablets is looking to higher version of the device at Rs 2,500 a piece and we are ready to match the price on order for every 10 lakh units’, said Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of Datawind.
‘The deadline to finish supplies of Aakash tablet is around June 6 under the tender clause. We have done it by May 1 so we have complied with the norms… We have set up an LCD touchscreen unit in Amritsar. Therefore, Datawind will comply to the norms of 30 per cent value addition in the product from India. I would like government to strictly implement it. It is good for the country and will encourage electronics manufacturing in the country.’
