National Information Infrastructure

1. National ICT Policy 2012
• National Policy on Information Technology
2012. The policy aims to leverage Information
& Communication Technology (ICT) to address
the country’s economic and developmental
challenges.

2. National Knowledge Network
• National Knowledge Network (NKN) project is
aimed at establishing a strong and robust
internal Indian network, which will be capable
of providing secure and reliable connectivity.
• The idea of setting up the NKN was
deliberated and finalized by Government of
India (GoI) and the National Knowledge
Commission (NKC)

3. Select Major National Projects of
India
• E-Court
E- Gospital@NIC
National eServices
Dashboard (NeSD)
E-Panchayt
E-Post
Data Portal India
• https://services.ecourts
.gov.in/

4. National Information Institutions of
India (NIII)
• National Library
• National Social Science Documentation Center
• NISCAIR (Including the National Science Library)
• National Medical Library
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute Library
INFLIBNET
• NASSCOM
• National Institute of Smart Government
• DELNET
• National Mission on Libraries
• National Mission for Manuscripts
• National Informatics Center
• National Knowledge Commission

5. National Library
http://www.nationallibrary.gov.in/
• Calcutta Public Library (CPL) -Calcutta Public
Library was established in 1836. It was not a
Government institution. It ran on a
proprietary basis. Any subscriber paying Rs
300 at one time or in three installments was
considered a proprietor.
• Dwarkanath Tagore was the first proprietor of
Calcutta Public Library.

6. The Imperial Library
• The Imperial Library was founded in 1891 but
the use of the library was restricted to the
superior officers of the Government.

7. Amalgamation of CPL and Imperial
Library
• Lord Curzon, Governor General of India goes
to credited with the idea of opening a library
in Kolkata for public use
• He decided to merge the collection of Calcutta
Public Library with that of the Imperial Library,
subject to certain terms. The new library,
called Imperial Library, was formally opened
to the public on 30 January 1903 at Metcalf
Hall, Kolkata.

8. • The aims and objectives of the Imperial
Library were well defined in a Notification in
the Gazette of India: ‘It is intended that it
should be a library of reference, a working
place for students and a repository of material
for the future historians of India, in which, so
far as possible, every work written about
India, at any time, can be seen and read.’

9. From the Imperial Library to the
National Library
• After Independence the Government of India
changed the name of the Imperial Library to
the National Library, with the enactment of
the Imperial Library (Change of Name) Act,
1948 and the collection was shifted from the
Esplanade to the present Belvedere Estate. On
1 February 1953, the National Library was
opened to the public, inaugurated by
MaulanaAbulKalam Azad.

10. National Social Science
Documentation Center
• National Social Science Documentation Centre
(NASSDOC), was established in 1969 as a
Division of the ICSSR

11. NISCAIR
• National Institute of Science Communication
and Information Resources (NISCAIR) came
into existence on 30 September 2002 with the
merger of National Institute of Science
Communication (NISCOM) and Indian National
Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC).

12. Implementation of Online Access of
NISCAIR's Primary Journals
• A solution called “NISCAIR ONLINE
PERIODICALS REPOSITORY (NOPR)” has been
implemented based on the open source digital
repository system software. This has enabled
NISCAIR to host online its research journals.
All the 17 research journals have been added
under Open Access mode for accessing full
text [http://nopr.niscair.res.in].

13. National Knowledge Resource
Consortium (formerly CSIR e-Journals
Consortium)
• NISCAIR is the nodal organization for
developing a "Consortium for CSIR
Laboratories for Accessing e-journals".

14. TKDL Project (traditional Knowledge
Digital Library 2012
• The proposal submitted by India based on the
TKDL project on the International Patent
Classification (IPC)-Traditional Knowledge
Resource Classification (TKRC) concordance list
prepared. The list provides the searchers, who
are carrying out research in the field of traditional
medicine documentation published in India, by
indicating how an IPC symbol relating to a specific
subject matter corresponds to a TKRC symbol
concerned with the same or similar subject
matter.