When the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) entrusted the country nodal ICT organization, the National Informatics Centre (NIC), with the responsibility of establishing the Rs 5,990-crore National Knowledge Network (NKN) on March 25, 2010, it signaled the evolution of Indian ICT from an information-based...

The word Maharashtra, the land of the Marathi speaking people, appears to be derived from Maharashtri, an old form of Prakrit. Located in the north centre of Peninsular India, with a command of the Arabian Sea through its port of Mumbai, Maharashtra has a remarkable physical homogeneity, enforced by...

Web GIS helps in emergency planning and minimize the damage in case of any eventuality.

Digital objects are being created by governments, private corporations, authors, publishers, librarians, museum curators etc. in the form of text documents, photographs, images, audio and video footage, maps and more. Specifically, the massive volumes of paper generated by government offices can be pulled...

The district Dungarpur is named after the town of hillocks and the capital of the former princely state of Dungarpur. Located in the southern part of Rajasthan, the town itself is said to have been a Bhil Pal or a hamlet of Dungaria.