Bangalore: The Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) manufactured Simputer, a simple,
inexpensive pocket computer, is slated for commercial launch in a couple of months,
a top BEL official said on April 16.
BEL's Chairman and Managing Director V K Koshy told reporters that PICO-PETA
Simputers Ltd has almost completed the task to equip Simputer with inbuilt hardware
and software options to cater to varied customers.
Simputer was conceived and designed by the Simputer Trust. BEL had entered into an
agreement with PICO-PETA Simputer Ltd, the commercial organisation that has
developed the software and hardware to bring out a marketable product for transfer
of know-how for manufacture and supply of Simputers co-branded as "BEL-PICO-PETA
Simputer".
BEL, a Defence PSU (Public Sector Undertaking), won a tender of the Karnataka
government for the "Bhumi" project, for data collection in rural areas, for a pilot
batch quantity of 200 numbers, and had already supplied them.
PTI
