Sudeep Banerjee, education secretary, ministry of human resource development said that the OLPC isn't "mature enough to be taken seriously at this stage."

"The case for giving a computer to every single child is pedagogically suspect. It may actually be detrimental to the growth of the creative and analytical abilities of the child. We cannot visualise a situation for decades when we can go beyond the pilot stage. We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools," he stated. It would be more worthwhile to allocate resources for expanding secondary education programmes India, he said.

OLPC is a non-profit association, which has developed a $100 laptop for global marketing, especially to the less developed countries - a technology that could revolutionise how we educate the world's children. It was launched by faculty members at the MIT Media Lab. It was first announced by lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte, now chairman of OLPC, at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in January 2005.

Nigeria has purchased the package by placing an order for 1 million units, while Egypt and Brazil are expected to soon follow suit.