In the last few weeks, in the various ILUG mailing lists, there has
been discussion on "School OS" [1] ?(Ubuntu based) which I believe has
been developed under the aegis of NCERT (I hope I got that right).
Rather than create yet another distro - it might be worthwhile
concentrating efforts on improving and extending what is already
there.
If there is strong need for a new distro then please address the following:
1. Support/ Training issues
2. Software updates
3. Release cycle to keep up with whichever upstream distro it is based of.
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/schoolos
-- Arun Khan