Imphal, Apr 3 : The ‘One Laptop per Child (OLPC)’ project aimed at developing children’s education through computer technology will be launched in Manipur in April 2010. According to L Jayanta kumar, education minister, Manipur Government, laptops for the scheme will arrive in the first week of April and the government has earmarked Rs 155 lakh to get these laptops designed for learning and teaching students in state. “The state government is procuring1000 laptops for the implementation of the scheme in first phase of the project. The scheme will be implemented in some selected government schools including those set up as model schools by the education department,” the minister has said.
The laptops cost around Rs 11,000 per unit and come with features designed specifically to meet the needs of Indian school children. The laptops have been tailored in such a way that course content and certain text books can be made available in local languages, so they should prove invaluable to the Indian school children.
The OLPC project was introduced in India in 2007 when students of Khairat village near Karjat received these laptops. The scheme was implemented by OLPC Inc, a non-profit organization funded by multinational companies.
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