Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir yesterday indicated that the administration is on course to deliver on its promise to hand over 27,000 netbooks under the OLPF by early December, while dispelling suggestions that there was some sinister motive behind the recent distributions of CDs along with the computers.
Last week, the government started distributing 5,000 computers as it officially rolled out the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project. The first 1,000 were distributed on Tuesday at a ceremony held at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) where the beneficiaries were also given CDs.
Questions were raised about the CDs since netbooks do not contain CD ROMs and when this was raised with Nadir, he said that the manufacturers had sent with every computer a back-up CD with