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This is an archive article published on June 21, 2005
Let IT help common man: Sonia
UPA chairperson and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today called for efforts to ensure the use of information technology to benefit the common m...
UPA chairperson and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today called for efforts to ensure the use of information technology to benefit the common man.
8216;8216;There should be a continuing effort to tap the absorption and dissemination of knowledge of local relevance to make it available for the benefit of people at large,8217;8217; said Sonia, after releasing a set of Hindi software tools and fonts in CDs for free public distribution.
Lauding the efforts of Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing CDAC for developing the software, she said, 8216;8216;Such a step would bring revolutionary changes in the implementation of the Right to Information Act recently passed by the UPA government.8217;8217;
Meanwhile, C-DAC officials The Indian Express that the centre is now gearing up to release similar copies in Bengali, Telugu and Marathi8212;the Tamil version was released in April.
8216;8216;Work on Bengali, Telugu and Marathi languages are at an advanced stage and it will be released in a couple of months,8217;8217; said Mahesh Kulkarni, group coordinator of CDAC8217;s Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology GIST.
As for the Hindi package, there are plans to produce 1 million compact discs CDs and depending on the demand, more will be made available for people. People who are interested in getting the software package can log on to http://www.ildc.gov.in and register themselves and the CDs will be sent to them free of cost. The software package can also be downloaded from the website.
8216;8216;CDs will also be made available through popular magazines as well as distributed in schools and colleges,8217;8217; Kulkarni added.
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