Vnunet.com, July 28, 2006
By Tom Sanders

The government of India has abandoned plans to order the laptop computers being developed by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.

India's Ministry of Human Resource Development labelled the $100 laptop project as "pedagogically suspect", according to the Kaumudi newspaper, claiming that there are no proven benefits of providing all children with their own notebook computers.

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