India World’s Cheapest $10 Laptop

As the ‘world cheapest Laptops’ are now in India, was unveiled by the union minister for Human Resource Development Arjun Singh at the Tirupati temple on Tuesday evening.

As the laptop is developed by several organizational authorities, such as it includes the University Grants Commission, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, it will be priced around 10$ to 20$(about Rs. 500 to Rs.1000),as officially it is said. It is expected that it will be reach within six months. As it is created a buzz in the laptop companies around the world. Some says it is rumor.

As the memory of laptop is not very large it is around 2 GB onboard memories with wireless Internet connectivity. To make it useful for the students, especially in the rural areas, the scientists have made it low power consuming gadget.

The $10 laptop is being seen as India’s reply to One Laptop per Child’s XO and Classmate of Intel. The XO, created by scientist Nicholas Negroponte and MIT Media Lab was originally targeted to cost only $100 but by the time it was ready to enter the market its cost went up to $188. The Classmate notebook PC from Intel was priced at $ 300 a piece.

In contrast, the Indian government’s effort to market laptop at only $10 has caused a flutter in the international laptop market and there are still many players that are very curious in knowing the details of the costing and they have a eager that how Indians managed to keep cost so low.

Character Education is basics to our life

At a recent in service training program for teachers, John Doyle, Miami-Dade Country Schools. Administrative Director for the Division for Social Sciences, made the case for character education. He reminded teachers of the of the growing consensus about the basic need of the character education that recently in the face of increasing concerns about behavior & negative societal influences. He basically pointed out that despite people that make differences over the political, social, & mainly in cultural issues, about the core values such as respect, responsibility, & honesty are universal. The Pupil Progression Plan of Miami-Dade County Public Schools requires character education, as based on the districts? Nine core values, for all students, grades K-12.

According to a leading character educator, Dr. Thomas Lickona, the question is not that to take concern about character education, but do perform well in that. For that the Division of Social Sciences co-sponsored the recent teacher in service with Living Values Education. The Program which we are taking for includes a global collaborative of educators who are seeking to create educational environments where all participants, children’s, parents, teachers, administrator, staff, & others will feel respected, valued, cared about, & appreciated too. As we begun the project in the celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the United Nations & now it will be supported by the UNESCO, UNICEF, and several well regarded peace organization, instantly this is project is going on approximately in 70 countries world-wide, & has recently been introduced in Miami-Dade Country. The Miami Shores/Barry University Connected Learning Community Charter School has agreed to become a national demonstration site, and nearly 100 teachers from schools throughout the district participated in the recent character education in-service program.

The Miami-Dade School District has designated a main focus value for each & every month during its school year. The value of February is referring to be as INTEGRITY. There is no any rule anyone can participate in this & take an initiative by becoming the part living values. Just think about what the integrity is basically & how can it be Miami-Dade School demonstrated throughout the day. Is the integrity is one your specialties? Would students learn integrity by watching your behavior? What happens when people don’t exhibit integrity?

Character Education is just the program unless it comes alive in all of us. Practice what you preach i a very simple axiom, but it is the reason that living Values has worked so well all over the world, & now it’s pledge to support Miami-Dade County Schools path of Character Education

CHILD LABOUR - IS NOT A NECESSARY EVIL

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO) there is an estimated 165 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 whom are actively involved in child labor. Just over a month ago on June 11th we celebrated World Day against Child Labor. The 2009 theme for World Day against Child Labor was: ‘Education: The right response to child labor’. This year the ILO’s International Programmed on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC) has established the campaign to tackle the right to education for all children to break the chain of child labor that envelops millions of children worldwide. As in the country there is the direct relation between all problems like poverty, literacy, unemployment & child labor. As if we try to work out on any one of the problem definitely the other related problems will be improved. So as the child labor is also one of the great problems for the country. This problem directly produces an impact on the poverty and it impact on economy of the country. Therefore it is a cycle that goes unbroken for generations & generations. The recent survey states, about 75 million children in world are without primary education.

Clearly in the real world child labor will not stop overnight - there aren’t the schools, hostels etc to accommodate and rehabilitate these children even if the government had the manpower to round them up - but it’s no bad thing to make a statement of intent. It might work a lot that will help to raise awareness & also to change the attitude.

There many NGOs who are working to eradicate this problem, but they also want some help from government & the public then it is possible to achieve that target. There are mostly in India, they treat their servant’s well- but sometimes it doesn’t occur to them to ask whether they should be keeping school age children as domestic helps at all.

The one country is continuing to fall short in this battle against child labor is India. Despite the establishment of law 2006 which banned the child labor for domestic purpose India remains the worst offender, as the country has more child labor the anywhere around the globe. Government has found only 6,782 child workers but we there are millions of kids are, “ Kailash Satyagrahi, who founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the child hood movement) one of India’s leading child rights groups, stated. “From this, there has only been 1,680 prosecutions launched against employers but not a single conviction has taken place.”

The reason for the slow enforcement of the law is our cultural view, where we any crime doing children as a provider for a family. The other obstacle is the lack of will on the part of law enforcement.

School children wear 'Stop Child Labor' masks in Hyderabad, India, on June 12, 2008 NOAH SEELAM / AFP / Getty Images.

The 2006 law is not the first attempt by Indian state to enact laws to address the child labor problem. In India government try to eradicate this problem by enforcing the Child Labor laws in India including 1986 Child Labor Prohibition & Regulation Act that state children less than 14 years of age were prohibited to be employed in occupations deemed hazardous.

As the recent survey states that about 12 million children under the age of 14 years remain employed as domestic, servants, miners, carpet weavers, tea sellers, street paddlers in spite of 2006 law. . The governments figures also fail to address those who continue to be forced to work in situations of hard labor, such as in mining often forces to break stones with their bare hands, or left to work in the textiles industry, such as to embroider saris.

The fight against child labor is going on, as millions of child toil away in hazardous & abusive conditions.