Please understand Computer is not everything. India has declared free Primary Education as compulsory but a good number of our Legislators and Parliamentarians are not educated. A majority of our population are still illeterate. Child labour exists purely due to poverty. Not that when Laptop is cheaper everyone will start buying one. Roti, Kapada, Makan is the basic need, not Cellphone, Laptop and Pizza. Urban and Semi Urban India is hardly 10% of India. 90% of India is rural without even proper roads to connect and there are no regular buses, trains, electricity connections, potable water, sanitation, etc. Children travel many kilometers to reach the nearest school in many areas. Education is costly and free education is a myth where neither education is imparted nor is it free. In the first place, start educating the people, make basic needs available everywhere, then talk about laptops and palmtops. One who is spending Rs.20000 today may spend Rs.5000 more and buy one more gadget but where a family gets a full meal once in six months cannot do that. Our priority is not Laptop - cheaper or costlier. For instance, the number of backward communities have increased inspite of reservation over the six decades but we claim great development. Let us not live in myth. Each educated person should try to educate atleast two uneducated persons. Atleast give what you can to improve the lot of needy. Giving is not for publicity like politicians, it is for our satisfaction.
RE:Computer is not everything.
by yogesh soni on Aug 07, 2008 01:34 PM Permalink
dude you did not understand the article.. the aim is that government should buy the laptops and give them away to children. There are many educational softwares that are really good. Search for Alice project on google. Well if children have to walk many Kms to attend the school then having a laptop that is connected to internet will come handy, won't it. I admit this is far fetched in the future but that's how it should be.
RE:Computer is not everything.
by TongInChic on Aug 07, 2008 02:02 PM Permalink
Unfortunately, economics does not understand this. A communist would not like to have rich people at all, they would rather redistribute the wealth so that everybody has basic needs. But when you do that, there are no savings and no investments and no progress.
In countries where the distribution of wealth is unequal, the rich have surplus money to invest and that leads to factories, roads, and jobs and incomes.
This sounds rather heartless but that is how economics works. If we say, nobody should get laptops till all children can get a good education, it would mean nobody gets a laptop for the next 30 years. That is the reality and the moral dilemma that we are facing.
RE:Computer is not everything.
by yogesh soni on Aug 07, 2008 02:22 PM Permalink
you make good point mate..go search for participatory economics in google
