{"id":1089,"date":"2006-07-27T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2006-07-27T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T16:45:27","slug":"indias-ministry-of-human-resource-development-rejects-the-100-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/indias-ministry-of-human-resource-development-rejects-the-100-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Ministry of Human Resource Development Rejects the $100 Laptop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/msid-1698603,prtpage-1.cms\">Times of India<\/a>:<br \/>\n<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.nic.in\/\">HRD<\/a> contends that spending Rs 450 crore on digital empowerment can be better spent on primary and secondary education. &#8220;It is quite obvious that the financial expenditure to be made on the scheme will be out of public funds.<\/p>\n<p>It would be impossible to justify an expenditure of this scale on a debatable scheme when public funds continue to be in inadequate supply for well-established needs listed in different policy documents,&#8221; the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>It also finds it intriguing as to &#8220;why no developed country has been chosen&#8221; for MIT&#8217;s OLPC experiment &#8220;given the fact that most of the developed world is far from universalising the possession and use of laptops among children of 6-12 age group&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Wow, I feel somewhat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2131201\/\">vindicated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennf.com\">Glenn Fleishman<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times of India: HRD contends that spending Rs 450 crore on digital empowerment can be better spent on primary and secondary education. &#8220;It is quite obvious that the financial expenditure to be made on the scheme will be out of public funds. It would be impossible to justify an expenditure of this scale on a debatable scheme when public funds continue to be in inadequate supply for well-established needs listed in different policy documents,&#8221; the ministry said. It also finds&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,65,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-100-laptop","category-foreign-affairs","category-tech-in-far-off-lands","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-hz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}