 I am trying to get in touch with one to five institute of technology, Hissar, are you please identify yourself and tell me something about your center. I am Dr. Sanjay Singla from Center Code 1258, one to five eight, Home Institute of Technology and Management, Hissar Haryana. This workshop is very good and the program at the Vigam Bhavan in Delhi is very good as you have telecast very good and the tablet that I have received from IIT Bombay that is I have bring with me that is two tablet and performance of tablet is very good. We have also successfully conducted the quiz on the tablet. This is very good product for the students as well as teachers also. We will try to make some R&D on these tablets so that it can benefit to us as well as to the nation also. Do you have only those two tablets with you or have you received some more from CEDAC, NOIDA? Over. We have received more tablets but we have received only two that I have bring from IIT Bombay. So, it is only a question of time before you receive them, thank you over and out, one, two, eight, four, Saroj Mohan Institute, West Bengal, over to you. Hello sir, I have some question on assignment, on group assignment. We already formed group of three, minimum three and maximum five members. The question is what type of assignment we should choose and you give some idea of what will be the topic or what will be the assignment. I am told by professor Fatah that the detailed working of the assignment he will put up instructions on moodle within a day or so. Meanwhile, the assignment has to do something with the Akash or Android tablets, so something to do with the software which is already on Akash, use of that software or some other software which is Android compatible, you try to implement it on Akash or try to use Akash and the Akash software for any educational purpose in your college. It is based on some topic on some subject, right that when we choose one topic from any subject and then we have, they are preparing some assignment using the tablet. Yes, that is what you can do. For example, now that you know that you can conduct quizzes, may be some quick clicker quizzes based on some topics and subtopics you could come up with or if you have some videos which are either open source or available on the net or some videos which you have created, you can use the proximity tool to provide the interactive functionality of that. Means, can you give us some example of assignment? These examples will be made available by professor Fatah in a day, in his note which he will be putting up on moodle. All these things would have been ready today except that professor Fatah got to leave in the evening for Delhi for that big meeting today, morning in Delhi, that is why it got delayed by a day. In fact, professor Fatah wanted to address you today afternoon but I am told he is already at the airport in Delhi on his way, so he would not be able to get in touch with you. At least he would not be able to get in touch with you just now, to prove through moodle will definitely be possible. Sir, I am Sanjay Johan from Jawaharlal Institute of Technology, Centre Code 1207. First of all, thank you very much sir for organizing such a nice and wonderful workshop for us. Secondly, I have one query, at the time of quiz submission via clicker, the timer is fluctuating many times. Sir, second question is about assignment. Assignment question is related with the cost project or it is related with some application. Okay, the first question was when the clicker quiz was going on, the timing was fluctuating. Perhaps the reason for this is a communication issue or the bandwidth problem. Perhaps the quiz was conducted centrally from this place, all the control was here. So, actually the clock was running on our server here and the image was being transmitted to you. Now, if it takes 3 seconds for the image to be transmitted, your clock will be 3 seconds slow but suddenly you get a good time and the delay is only 1 second, you will find in 1 second your clock has gone fast by 3 seconds. But I think on an average, the 4 minute time given to you was may be 4 minutes plus or minus a few seconds. The second thing is about assignment as I have already said, the assignment has something to do with Akash, the software on Akash, either use of the current software on Akash or because it is open source, you can study the source and try to modify a part of it or study the applications on Akash, study their source and create similar or enhanced or other appropriate applications of Akash. By Akash, I mean typically an Android tablet, so something which works on a generic Android tablet, create it and try to implement it on Akash, Akash may not exactly be like a generic Android tablet but it will be similar, with some effort you should be able to port it to Akash. There is another set of projects you can do, see Akash is a low cost tablet and hence the capabilities of Akash, the hardware specifications of Akash are not very jazzy. So, programs and applications and software, the suits which are written for a laptop, necessarily or usually assume that you will have a processor, may be dual core or a quad core processor with a few gigahertz, a huge cache, a huge main memory, fast writing and reading from a hard disk, such facilities are just not available in Akash. So, in that restricted environment, whatever best you can do of your software, that itself is a good assignment. For example, you have a C compiler, C++ compiler, but somebody wants to implement some part of Java on it, try implementing it. Today morning, it was informed to you that flash is not yet implemented on Akash. I do not know whether it is worth implementing flash, but somebody could try, Java is not yet ported on to Akash. If it is worth porting it, one could try and you know many attempts together will finally result in some good things coming out of it. Some 3, 4, 5 people in 10 to 15 days, they will take a few steps, but they may not be able to reach the final goal. I think that takes care of your questions over and out. Let me go to some other centre now. I have latched on to 1153 Tejpur University. Good afternoon sir. Sir, myself Pradhyamna Kumar Suri from the energy department. I would like to know one about added features in Akash. Sir, here I have seen in the King's Office software, inbuilt here, can read documents from Microsoft Office as well as spreadsheet, as well as blank presentation, PPT files. But is it possible sir to use this Akash for reading excess database or can I make some copy from our computer to this Akash, excess database or will it be working here? Sir, over to you sir. Yes, since you want to access the database which is on other PC, so similar thing what we are also doing it here for the clicker is the same thing. The results are generated and displayed on your clicker is from the database which is there in IIT Bombay. So, definitely you can use make it as a web server or make some application which is communicating with your tablet and just sending the data. Sir, in that case can I use my laptop as a server of the database and using the Akash. Yes, you can definitely use it. Okay sir. Thank you sir. Thank you. One, two, two, five, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka. Over to you. Sir, like I would like to first ask about Akash specifications like because it is pretty low end actually. So, how effective can be the tablet in teaching it? Battery backup is very low actually. It does not come even for about half an hour. Hello. Yeah, you have to charge the battery for the first time fully, at least for once. We have tested several tablets here in IIT Bombay and we have found the battery lasting for almost around two to three hours. We have tested it almost around 150 tablets out here in IIT Bombay. So, on an average the time what we have got it is from two to three hours. That too in continuous video playing. Over to you. So, on that end I would like to argue we have charged actually for eight hours but we haven't got backup for about even about 45 minutes I think. I content that particular this thing. It is not coming for even 45 minutes. Is it with only one piece or something like that or all the tablets whatever you received are having the same issues? Yeah, most of the tablets actually. It is generally for most of the tablets. I just request you once more time to first charge the tablet full 100% at least once. Then we can see it. Coming back to the specifications. Fight well and be how effective can be the thing. I mean how fast it can be. Akash tablet is an access device, low cost access device to watch, view educational videos, view to serve the net and get the information not for computing. So, it's an access device as the name is. But still again nowadays at least one or two GBs would be even there in a simplest I mean gadgets. So, why have you run for 512? See, one can always talk about 2 GBs or 4 GBs or whatever it is. Remember that one of the major constraints on the Akash specification was that the whole thing should be available in less than 2500 rupees. That's why we since Akash one was negotiated at something like 2279 rupees we got as near or better specifications for almost the same cost that 15-16 rupees is a minor issue. But that low cost is the main thing. The access come computation in access come computation. Access is the main thing. Some minor computation capabilities are made available on Akash. And that's why I think we said yesterday very clearly that although CC++ compilers are available. They are to be used for maybe small programs which a student at the learning stage writes down. Maybe a screen full or two screen full. You just don't expect it to compile a 3000 line C program for all you know. But then it will take much more time. If you have to compile and debug and run 3000 line C or CC++ program Akash is not the device. It's not a computer. It's a mainly an access device. You have one of the thinnest of clients that you have. If you want to use the thin client terminology. But it's a client. Remember you the best environment for Akash is a few students or a few dozens of students or 100, 150 students in a classroom with a Wi-Fi connectivity which takes care through the Wi-Fi to a server and the Akash is an access device. That's some minimal amount of computation. But that's about it. Don't expect great things out of a 2263 rupee tablet. Over. Now there are two projects here. One is the Akash project. And the other one is let me call the... The second one is let me say this is the Akash 2 project Let me say this is the NMEI CT 2 project. Akash project is about the use of A2 tablets in engineering education. And here there are Akash project centers. All of those have been identified. Currently each one has two tablets. You will have soon 20 finally going to something like 100 plus tablets or more as the need arises. The NMEI CT here we stop with Akash project centers which we talk to the main center at IIT Bombay. Now NMEI CT is the national mission on education. For us it is essentially engineering education. And the history of this is that there was an NMEI CT project. It was not called NMEI CT 1 project. People called it the Eklavya project. And the name Eklavya it's still being used. Under this we conducted a number of workshops. I think the workshops were conducted on computer programming and utilization. Then databases, then thermodynamics in mechanical engineering. Then we had one on heat transfer. We had on photovoltaics. Then we had on CFD and maybe something more I might have missed. We had on research methodology. Then we had a teacher's workshop writing effective papers etc. Now this was done by IIT Bombay as the main center. And there were a number of peripheral centers. For example I was involved in thermodynamics. So I know there were 31 centers. And the number of centers were of that order or higher. When it came to research methodology I think it increased to something like 200 centers. 168 centers. And then now for Akash projects we have but that is the other side of the partition. Akash project we have something like 250 centers. Now after having successfully completed NMEI CT project Government of India has only recently approved the NMEI CT 2 project. Now it was realized that although with this model we can expose a large number of teachers to good engineering, teaching and engineering education practices. The reach is not wider enough. And if the national mission on education extends beyond engineering education to what is called liberal education or even to school education then we have to have a much wider reach. So in the NMEI CT 2 project along with IIT Bombay we will have another IIT, IIT Kharagpur which will be a co-major center. It will not just be IIT Bombay soon IIT Kharagpur will come up to almost the same status as that of IIT Bombay that the status which was for IIT Bombay for the earlier Eklavya project. Under this in the next 3 years that means 3 December vacations and 3 May vacations May June vacations we will conduct 15 workshops. May be IIT Bombay will conduct 9 of them IIT Kharagpur will conduct 6 of them because they will have to start off from scratch they will have to set up things. So it could become 10 plus 5 or 8 plus 7 something like that but we are committed to conduct 15 workshops. Now if you look at the scale what is required is this. Today there are let me slightly enhance the number may be there are 500 engineering colleges in India. Each college will have something like at least 100 faculty members so you can see the number of faculty members which exist. Now it is perhaps too much to ask at this stage that each and every college becomes a remote center but let us say 1 in 10 colleges becomes a remote center because it is usually found that these engineering colleges are not uniformly distributed they are in clusters you know near cities or some semi urban places where there are clusters. So we think that perhaps 500 remote centers is a good idea that one remote center can typically take care of 10 colleges of the order of 10 colleges. Now consider that those who have taken part in the first Eklavya project NMAICT project would realize that whenever we conduct a workshop the workshop is in 2 phases there is a coordinators workshop where the coordinators of the remote centers come to IIT Bombay we discuss the details of the main workshop there is a lecture demonstration of the contents in the main workshop. And then we conduct the main workshop a few weeks or a few months later where things are being from IIT Bombay to each one of those remote centers the way they are being now from IIT Bombay to those 250 remote centers. But now consider that 500 coordinators coming to IIT Bombay to take part in the coordinators workshop this is almost impossible to do because we cannot host 500 people here. So what is expected is the following we will have a plan like this IIT Bombay and IIT Karakpur at the top this is one level those 500 remote centers taking care of 5000 institutes at the other end but this connection 500 to 1 or 2 is too sharp. So what is planned is something like 10 nodal centers distributed all over India. So it is possible we are yet to work out the details that few of these remote centers typically 50 of them will latch on to one nodal center one some other will latch on to some other nodal center nodal center 2 and so on. So these 10 nodal centers will take care of approximately 50 remote centers each and IIT Bombay or IIT Karakpur or parallelly they will beam to these 10 nodal centers. So the even the coordinators workshop will be conducted in a semi-distributed way perhaps at may not be all 10 at a time but a few nodal centers. Now these nodal centers will slowly have to come up at least in the hardware fashion to a level where IIT Bombay is now and IIT Karakpur will soon be. Similarly if we have to keep on conducting such courses we will have to have good connectivity and good audio visual facilities at each of these 500 remote centers. So as part of this NMEI CT2 workshop it is possible that each one of these 500 remote centers will be supported to some extent I think professor Fatah mentioned something of the order of rupees 3 lakhs for creating a local LAN local wireless hotspots and a local audio visual system capture and projection system. And as well as a good link with IITB and IIT KGP and the nodal centers. Now since the nodal centers have to take care of a number of this these 10 nodal centers will be supported to a heavier extent than the remote centers. And since the outlay on each nodal centers will be significantly larger than the 2 and half 3 lakhs which are mentioned for each remote centers. The sponsors of the project that is MHRD has indicated to us that at least to begin with all these nodal centers will have to be either government institutions or fully funded institutions which are fully funded by the government of India. So it is expected that initially the nodal centers will be institutes like maybe some other IITs or some NITs or for example a fully funded government institution like the one in Besu at Sipur or Walchand College of Engineering at Sangli. These are old institutions which are not government institutions people there are not employees of government of India or any state government but they are fully funded educational institutions. I think this should answer a large number of questions by which were being asked by the remote centers. Now I see a large number of hands raised I will just take 1 or 2 centers before we take 40. 1060 EBET Thirupur over to you. This is professor Rasika from EBET we have the doubt regarding the projects and could you explain already have told that you will be uploading the details in the module and is there any restriction that the project should not be in the same topic all those things. I think I have already said that the project has something to do with Akash or the specifications of Akash. At present I can say only that much more details will be made available by professor Fatak who will post the instructions on Moodle within one day by tomorrow. 1264 Shooleri University, Solan. We want to know the technical specification of this Akash tablet as we feel that it is very battery the limit battery is very limited here in the Akash tablet. So we want to do some improvement over battery consumption we can optimize through software also but we need to know the technical specification of batteries used in Akash tablet. So how can we get this technical specification of hardware over to you sir. Thank you for the question. Apparently there seem to be a number of questions on the battery. I will give you a default answer. I think the tablets which have been distributed to you have never been properly charged and as all of us know that I myself have found out that unless a rechargeable battery whatever kind goes through a few cycles of full charging discharging it does not you know warm up properly for its use. So what I recommend is although put this upon Moodle because I am not saying there is no problem but I suggest that you charge all the Akash you have once overnight then keep them on let people play with it till it get discharged again charge it let it go through 2, 3 such cycles and even then if the problem persists again talk to the people here put the query upon Moodle the moment we see that there are large number of queries on Moodle regarding a particular issue of Akash that will be taken up with the appropriate urgency that is needed. Over to you. Thank you sir. Thank you. One another question from my colleague Mr. Ajit Nath. Please. Okay sir my question is can we reinstall the operating system on this Akash tablet. Over to you sir. And passing it on to Mr. Kushakar. No right now the image which is available is preloaded from the company we have not received any images on which you can reinstall the software again. Over to you. Sir some tablets they have the operating system is corrupt and on some others Wi-Fi is not working. See I am receiving lot of complaints regarding Wi-Fi on the tablets not getting on. So I request all the RCS who have received such kind of tablets please note down the serial number and put it on this thing Moodle so that we can come to know how many tablets are having Wi-Fi related issues and how many few of them have been damaged also. So out of 20 whatever you have received 4 are having some Wi-Fi issue so just please note down the serial numbers and send it to us. Thank you. SKN Simwagat College 1260 Simwagat College Ponderpur. Over to you. Sir congratulations sir for this big event as well as adding some nice aids in the technical field for the education purpose. Sir my question is can we access the another tablets or desktop another tablet through the tablet. You want to access desktop of another PC or laptop on your tablet. Yes sir yes sir. So there are few applications which are available on Google Play like remote desktop and all this thing you can just download and play with it. That's all. Thank you. Okay so can we access another tablet desktop of tablets through the tablet so that we can monitor what the students are doing in the lab if you distribute the tablet through the student and if they are doing some applications related to C language I want to monitor it. So is it possible to do that? Tablet to tablet is not possible means you want to just capture the screen and view what exactly the students are doing. So no because whatever is thrown on your screen is visible on other PCs or anything in the tablet using the VNC. But it's only the tablet what is displayed that can be only viewed. There is a software called VNC which can help you for this thing. 1210 Gupta Institute of Technology Karnataka. Over to you. We are delighted to be here and I would like to ask you a question that when a clicker quiz is conducted on our local server we are only getting the number of responses that we have. Can we get the details of how each person has individually answered? Yes see the moment you the tablets or the timeout is finished the respective tablet shows the respective people's answer on the tablets itself. Over to you. Hello on our individual tablet we get the answer but on our local server can I get to know how many have answered correctly, how many have answered wrongly. We are going to modify that part we have got it and each remote centers are going to get the local response overall plus the individual tablets also they can see that we are going to modify it. 1236 Excel Engineering College. Kumar Palayam Tamil Nadu. Over to you. Sir we really appreciate the efforts taken by IIT Bombay in conducting this August project. We are very thankful sir. Sir I would like to ask that what are the short term and long term objectives of this August project? The short term and medium term objectives are to improve academic interaction between students and faculty so that feedback can be given quickly and since the students have a small computing device in their hand for example it can be used well a very rudimentary use will be to use it as a calculator but it can also do certain type of complex calculations using for example Sylab. You can do small amount of programming for example at least for the first half a semester if not the whole semester for a basic programming course I think Akash will be useful because in such a course you write programs and sub programs which are may be 30, 40, 50 lines in length and I think Akash compilers the C and C++ compilers and the Python compilers on Akash are good enough for this purpose. If you want to do some reasonably complicated but not too long and too heavy a programming effort computational programming effort draw some simple graph youth Sylab that is available. A teacher can use it the clicker part of it for obtaining immediate feedback so that mid course correction even halfway through a one hour or one and half hour lecture can be implemented. Now this is short term and medium term may be a few years. Remember that any laptop we know that any electronic machinery desktop laptop etc a useful life is 3 to 5 years and the technology life may only be slightly longer than that. So I think we should not set up any long term objective for Akash. Long term objective would be or even the medium term to long term objective should be replace Akash 2 by a much more friendly much more capable but not much more costly Akash 3. Remember that the third, fourth and fifth parts of the acronym may change but the first two letters LC meaning low cost will remain. What is low cost that is relative what is low cost today may not be considered low cost tomorrow and so on but relatively low cost that objective will remain and that should be one of our constraints if we want hundreds of thousands of Akash like devices to be used by students. 1008 DKTE a Sitchal Karanji over to you. Good afternoon sir. Myself L. S. Admuthay from DKTE A Sitchal Karanji. My question is sir can we use or can we download IIT applications which are designed by IIT students that is Skylab or Clicker on tab which are available in the market because I heard that it is designed with the help of Linux and Android OS. So you can definitely download and install the Clicker APKs which are there on the other tablets that you can buy but regarding the Linux installation the Linux installation was the purely made for the Akash tablet right now because different tablets have got different processors in it and they have to compile based on that. 1248 Sri Santagadge Baba College of Engineering and Technology Bhusava over to you. My question is sir can you provide your design of Akash tablet so that we can work on designing adding more functionality to it by using the extension mechanism of UML over to you sir. I think what you mean by design of the Akash tablet do you mean the hardware of the Akash tablet. No sir the class diagram, object diagram, class diagram that you have designed for your tablet so that we can add by using extension mechanism like UML. Yeah the present Akash tablet what you have received is designed around all winner A13 processor. You can search on internet for this particular processor and you can download the data sheet and get the block diagrams and much information on this particular tablet. Thank you over to you. While using the Clicker software can we display some AutoCAD files or list programming that we using in AutoCAD. Yeah we are asking K while showing the Clicker, displaying the quizzes and you want to show some image or AutoCAD file on it. By displaying the AutoCAD programming that the list programming software which we use in AutoCAD or you can say the AutoCAD drawings in Clicker software they are not for quiz. See the Clicker application is specially meant for the quiz conducting a quiz for viewing AutoCAD drawing. Or DWJ drawing or any other thing there are players available to view these drawings on Android. That particular application has to be downloaded and you can view the things. You cannot modify the DWJ drawings on Android. 1121 SVP Engineering College Bishaka Patnam over to you. My name is Kala I am from civil department I am the coordinator in the department. Sir I just have a question regarding the topics which you selected for the assignment for two weeks. The thing is what made you to be so ever and so elective towards electronics and computer science and how do you apply in other departments you did not mention or you did not even any spectacular things regarding the innovative ideas what you have been collected for the assignment. See currently Akash is a very new tablet. We are learning how to use it. We have put up some software on it which well although we feel is reasonably general purpose I agree that it is sort of way towards CS and things like that. We have compilers for CC++ simple compilers but for example you could create small Sylab scripts for civil engineering which can be used on Akash. Some simple Sylab script for may be well I am from mechanical engineering but I know something about deflection of beams, shear diagrams, bending moment diagrams. These you can calculate and show the diagrams on Sylab and then you change the loading or change the support slightly and how do those diagrams change and how does the deflection maximum stress changes that you can show that would be a very nice interactive package for civil engineers in your strength of materials or engineering mechanics. That just one thing which comes to my mind and you could do something similar in hydraulic fluid mechanics ground water flows and things like that. You know for example you take a simple textbook you have a problem I do not know which part of civil engineering you belong to but suppose there is a pipeline network and you have some sizes of pipes, lengths and connectors and you have from a lake to some drain some flow and now we give a problem in which may be one set of parameters is given and because we expect students to work it out we do not ask supplementaries as what if. For example if this pipe which is may be some 750 mm diameter if it is converted to a 900 mm diameter what will happen. Then plot it as a function of length of a pipe or some turn which is a bend instead of a very sharp one you make it shallower what will happen. Such quick things you can do by writing appropriate silab programs. I suppose such simple things can be done in many other engineering disciplines also. Over to you. It is a very dignified note from you sir we are very gladful for you that and the one more thing is we submission of assignment can be done in both the documentary way as well as in a PPT way the knowledge up to our mark we can do it like that also. Instructions will follow but I get a feeling that if you submit your assignment in a PDF format that would definitely be acceptable. Now whether a doc or a PPT etc would be acceptable or not that I would request Professor Fatak to announce on the moodle within a day. But I can announce now that PDF whether slides or document will definitely be accepted over. As mentioned like for a team three members will be included individually we have to submit all the questions what you mentioned and individually I have to now need. The team size. We can electively do it and we can submit for you. Yes the team size is between three and five it is not restricted to three and there is only one submission per team over. So any topic elective is ours only. Yes selection of topic is left. No one topic and we can submit. Yes. Okay. It's a nice meeting and talking to you sir. Thanks a lot. Happy Diwali. Happy Diwali to you. All of you. Over and out. 1120 Cent Alloy CS Institute of Technology Jabalpur. Good evening sir. First of all we would like to congratulate IIT Bombay for conduction of such a nice workshop and launching of Akash 2 today by President of India. We would like to ask one question that we have tried to configure our network on static IP but we couldn't do that. So presently we are running on dynamic IP and again and again we have to change the IP on the Akash tablet. So could you please suggest us some changes that we can make so that we can configure our network on static IP. Thank you for your congratulatory message. I will pass on the question to Mr. Rajesh Kushakar about your IP query. See regarding tablets getting dynamic IP I don't think so there will be issue for the clicker software to run. If your server is on dynamic IP and that is changing now and then that is the issue while giving the responses. So you can put on your server put as a static IP and whichever access point or DHCP server which you are using it please map the MAC address to define this particular IP address to assign this particular IP address only for that particular server. Over to you. Okay sir. We will try. We have one more question sir. Sir can we use PHP to develop applications in Akash? See there are lot of tools available for the Android development. There is SDK available which is really downloaded from net and you can integrate many other programming languages with it to make an application. There are lot of tutorials already available on YouTube so how to create a very small applications on Android. You can just check it on the YouTube also. Over to you. When this Akash is available in open market sir. I am told that it is not exactly Akash but tablets very similar to Akash are available already on the open market. But since that is a commercial proposition even if I really do not know what that is but since that is a commercial effort I will not say what it is or where it is available. This is I am not going to take a commercial break for that. Okay. But if you go on to the net or to your local suppliers you will be able to find tablets with almost exactly similar capabilities as Akash. Over. One, two, five, seven. HCTM Technical Campus, Kaital, Haryana. Over to you sir. There it is Professor Pekash Sury. Chairman, CSCIT and NCEA departments. Sir it is wonderful I must congratulate you for your wonderful this organized workshop for two days. And we all are very much enthusiastic for learning few more things. I hope are you going to organize any conference or workshop on simulation sort of applications. And another question is that if we wish to install some of the language processor for simulation languages which OS would be appropriate whether it would be Android or Akash or Ubuntu or which one you feel that it will be appropriate. Well your question is on simulation and neither myself neither Mr. Kushalkar I suppose is an expert in that. If you put up if you request your people to put this up on Moodle the team here would tell you what is to be done. But remember that Akash is a low cost and hence not great capacity tablet. So if you want to do some basic development and try out large number of quick options then perhaps Android is not a it is not a platform on which you develop something. It is a platform on which after having developed something you implement that for the final execution. That much I can tell you now but for more technical thing please put up the query on Moodle and it will get answered. Thank you. Over to you. That was a basic idea for that. Right sir. Thank you sir. Sir first of all I would like to thank to all the Akash team for the successful completion of the two-day IST workshop on Akash for education sir. In this sir in all the remote center these technical staff is also working from the last month sir. They hard work day and night sir. Sir is there any provision for Akash staff for those people sir because they are as practical as we are sir. Over to you sir. I am told it is restricted only to faculty at this moment. Over. Successful completion of the workshop in all the remote center sir. I cannot tell you anything more than what I have already said. If you want the request you can put in a specific request it will get handled in an appropriate manner which may not be any different than what I have told you now. Thank you very much. It is my feedback sir. Thank you sir. Thank you very much. Wish you a very happy Diwali. Over to you sir. Thank you very much. Your feedback is noted over and out. 1123 Thakral College of Technology Bhopal over to you. 1054 National College of Engineering Tilunelveli. Good evening sir. I am here and very happy to be a part of this Aghas project. Myself is Narayanan Prashant, the remote center coordinator of National College of Engineering 1054. Sir regarding the NKN during the testing process I found your technical team member has asked whether you are connected through internet or NKN. Can you give some information regarding the NKN and whether we can use NKN as a substitute for internet? Well the internet I do not know much detail so put up a query on Moodle because then everybody will know the correct answer from the proper person. But I am told that the normal internet is one channel. NKN is a parallel channel and NKN is a national knowledge network. So the normal internet is connected not only to the educational institutes but even to research organization, commercial establishment, homes of people everywhere. It is an internet of everything whereas NKN I am told is essentially educational network. So it is restricted only to educational institute. We will not have somebody trying to sell toothpaste on that network. Over to you. Because when I found the list in the net regarding NKN the colleges most of the colleges are government organizations and the universities. As we are in private institution whether it is possible to get NKN? Well I do not really know what are the policies of NKN but put this query upon Moodle and Professor Fatak will reply. 1044 Sasuri Tirupur over to you. The tablet which you have produced given does not contain any antivirus software. Does it require to have any antivirus software or we can download our free open source antivirus and install it in our tablet? See as far the android is concerned there are not much virus available on it but still if you feel any threat of it of any kind you can try it but I suggest not to do that part. Over to you. Can we use this offer as a controlling device in our mechanical department for controlling the boiler pressure etc. and also in our cam machines? Right now whatever the control part what we have demonstrated was the robo control so anything which can be driven electrically on which an electronic interface can be made can be controlled. And nothing mechanical movements which require manpower anything can be done. Good day name sir. I am Dr. Salwar Sundar, Akash coordinator. First of all we are very much thankful and grateful for participation in this Akash project. So we have made some clarifications. Sir already told in the previous session that we have to note down the serial numbers of the tablets which are having minor defects like not getting into Wi-Fi etc. So the next process is whether we have to resend those tablets to the IIT Mumbai or do you have any future plan related to troubleshooting in their respective colleges? Over to you. Yes that is a proper question. We have received such complaint from a number of centres. Within a day or so you will get instructions regarding the current status how to fill up the current status of each of the tablet which you have and which you will receive in future on an appropriate web page. So that we have the complete status and the various issues associated with it. Once that database gets reasonably populated we will decide what to do and instructions will follow. Just now keep the tablets with you in your custody. Do not be in a hurry to send them back to IIT Bombay or to whichever place they receive. Just now keep them in your custody. Let us see to it that the first lot of tablets is distributed. Then we will take an overall view and then a policy statement will follow about what is to be done. Over. 1117 SVITS Indore. Sir myself Rajesh Kumar Chakravarty. I am working as a remote centre coordinator and a caste coordinator this time. Sir actually we are having 95 plus participants at our remote centre. The participants are very happy to attend the workshop and they have a query in their mind that whether you are considering this time some non-engineering people for attending the workshop. So can you include some non-technical applications. For example you can include some non-technical application examples for their help to attend the workshop properly. See originally it was planned for only engineering faculty. But let us say now because of the ground situation let us say faculty in engineering colleges. We would not call it engineering faculty. We will say faculty in engineering colleges those are included. So any project which is an appropriate project in an engineering institute is acceptable. So may be driven by a faculty member in say physics, economics. So long as it is in an engineering institution and the remote centre coordinator belongs to the engineering institution that is ok. Over to you. Can we integrate camera available in the Akash tablet with Sylab? Ok. This is about camera integration with Sylab. About the camera in Akash we have a question mark. Our specification of Akash does not include a camera. The camera happens to be there because see we made out a specification and supplier found out that the supplier has a tablet which meets our specification but has an extra camera. Now since it is very difficult for the supplier at short notice to remove the camera and manufacture so many pieces. I think the supplier has provided us at least the first 20,000 pieces with a camera. We are not sure the remaining pieces will be with the camera. So just now we are not looking at any process by which we will integrate the camera with the software. Just now we will keep quiet about it. Over. 1074 Karmel Engineering, Pathanam Thitta. Sir, we have achieved the 20 tablets and within that those 20 tablets the C, C++ and Sylab was not there. And we have installed the C4 drawing that is that will execute C and C++ programs. But unfortunately we haven't got the Sylab and we have searched in internet as well as that Sylab.in that apk for Sylab is not available in that website. So kindly provide that website or URL for getting Sylab apk to install within our tablets. Sir, over to you sir. In today's morning session we have explained you the installation of APL Akash programming languages in which C, C++, Python and Sylab was included. So that file the link is provided on the Moodle. You can just go through the link and download the files from the JIT hub. And there is an instruction of how to install this software on the tablet using Ubuntu PC. So you have to run the scripts and connect your tablet to the laptop or PC via USB cable and run the script and the software will be installed on your tablet. Over to you. Shall we get that Sylab as a single software package? Sylab as a single software or as an apk is not available. It is showing that Sylab 5.1 is loading. At that time we expected that we will get that also. No, no, because the APL which yesterday sir has also explained, it is a one more basic Linux version on top of Android has been created. A virtual VM I can tell you is created on top of Android. So in that all this C, C++, Python and Sylab are running. So there is no particular apk for Sylab is right now available. Over to you sir. Our electrical faculty members and electronic faculty members are asking that the robotics control on application is loaded in our tablet. And will it be able to control the robots at our remote center also? So I heard that the Kavi area has on project on that robot controlling applications and she is working on that. We have made a query for getting these robots to our college. Unfortunately we won't get it and future we are expecting that with these tablets for our electronics department can do more with that. Is there any help we will get from your side on that? Over to you sir. See as far as I know regarding the dispatching of robots and all this thing it's from the Kavi area sir. Is there on the way and they are basically they are more tied up with the e-entra workshop what they are going to do it right now. So after that they will be dispatching to the colleges. I am not sure about it. You can put this question on the model and get the appropriate answers. One row, one three, webcoach length, Sivakafi. Over to you. I am Dr. T. Reviti Akashkarni sir. Our faculty members attended the quiz sir using 20 tablets. They answered all the four questions but they didn't get the score. Is it due to timeout problem or some other problem sir? See after the quiz has been over that individual tablets will get the answer immediately on the tablets. So whatever the tablets have been assigned to the people they will get the immediate feedback on the tablet itself. It is meant to do two days ISTE workshop. What is the role of ISTE in this workshop? This will be answered by Dr. Mukta Atre. Good evening. We have a collaboration with the Indian society for technical education. And apparently it helps the teaching faculty if they attend a workshop conducted by ISTE it helps in their promotion. That is why we have tied up with ISTE. Does that answer your question? Over. Sir, I am Arrivederhan head of the institution of web-question engineering college. I would like to ask one question. Will you be able to supply mass number of tablets for the entire community of our students in our campus? Even at a rate, subsidized rate? I can't really answer that question because this project is not for subsidized sale of tablets. There may be another channel which has nothing to do with the Akash-2 project. Maybe the subsidized tablets are almost exactly like Akash-2 or maybe they are Akash-2 themselves. But this is a project where Akash-2 is going to be put through its spaces with about a lakh people using it all over the place. This is a proving project for Akash-2. And hence only after this may be that second part unrelated to this direct sale with subsidy or whatever will take place. But this project will not have anything to do with it. These Akash tablets will as I said in the morning are owned by IIT Bombay on behalf of the government of India. Whatever are being distributed to you and to others, those are in your custody, you are the custodian. And hence they are not just to be given to a faculty member. They have the same status as a good costly book in your library. It is issued out at the end of its use at an appropriate time which is pre-decided it is to be returned. And I said that we want complete presability of every tablet, every tablet as a number. And at the click of a button or within a few minutes or hours, one should be able to trace through the remote center coordinator where that tablet is. I think it is almost coming to 530. So, thank you very much.