The Kerala State Government has decided to distribute tablet computers to school students across the State.

The programme will be implemented in a phased manner.

At the inauguration of ‘TechVidya@school’ State Education Minister P.K. Abdu Rabb said that the project would be implemented in association with local bodies and parent-teacher organisations. This programme has been initiated by the Ernakulam District Panchayat. Students will be able to upload their lessons on the tablet PCs and communicate with their teachers on the Internet, he said.

The smart classroom project in schools had reached its final stages. A classroom in each school will be converted into a smart class. The aim is to set up classrooms without books, said the State Education Minister.

Awareness should be created among students on how to use technology for knowledge upgradation. The challenge before teachers and parents is to check misuse of technology, said Minister for Civil Supplies Anoop Jacob on this occasion.

According to the President of Ernakulam District Panchayat Eldhose Kunnappillil, “TechVidya@school is being implemented by Keltron and as many as 53 schools will receive around 140 desktops, 221 laptops, and 91 multimedia projectors as part of the project.  The project would train students in the lower and upper primary sections in schools under the Ernakulam district panchayat, he said.

This year in August the Minister for Human Resources Development Mr. Kapil Sibal also confirmed that "Now, Aakash-2 has been rolled out with battery life of three hours, 800MHz processor, providing internet access everywhere and it has a capacitive screen. The process to distribute this device has begun and it would be formally launched very soon," He was addressing the first convocation of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) at its Hyderabad campus “It was rejected throughout the world and it was said that India would not be able to make it. Our HRD ministry was committed to the Aakash project and ultimately we came out with the first version of the Aakash which costs Rs 2,276.” He had said.