Prakash Javadekar Launches National Digital Library of India

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The Union Human Resource Development Minister, Prakash Javadekar, launched the new digital initiative of HRD Ministry ‘National Digital Library of India’ on the occasion of National Reading Day in New Delhi on Tuesday.

This National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a project of the Ministry of Human Resource Development under the aegis of National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT).

The objective of NDLI is to make digital educational resources available to all citizens of the country to empower, inspire and encourage learning. National Digital Library of India is developed by IIT Kharagpur.

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NDLI is a single-window platform that collects and collates metadata from premier learning institutions in India and abroad, as well as other relevant sources. It is a digital repository containing textbooks, articles, videos, audio books, lectures, simulations, fiction and all other kinds of learning media.

The Minister explained that NDLI is a digital library that makes quality learning resources available to all learners and has 1.7 crore content documents from more than 160 sources, in over 200 languages.

Prakash Javadekar added that apart from website, NDLI is also available on the Mobile app. NDLI Mobile app is enabling access to rich digital content of libraries across the country and even foreign repositories to users even in the remotest of areas.

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