MONTHLY REPORT ON NMEICT SCHEME1. NPTEL Phase II / III(A)

Physical Target Financial Target Creation of 500 web and video course s in 15 disciplines. Enabling streaming format for all video courses developed Web support services

Rs.96.oo crores

(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Releasedso far

Deliverables Time Line

IIT Madras NPTEL Phase II/III

Rs.56.35 crores

1. Conversion of NPTEL Phase-I video courses in streaming video lecture format and setting up eight distributed national video servers for delivering lectures on demand in each of the eight partner institutions (PI)

Estimate date of completion is June, 2012 (if already completed, date of completion be given)

2. Creation of additional 600 web and video courses in all major branches of engineering, physical sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management courses at the postgraduate level.

3. Integration of College curricula in engineering education with NPTEL contents through a large number of course specific workshops and interaction with colleges in India for improving TEL infrastructure4. Creation of discussion forum for each course created under the NPTEL using NPTEL using a grid a computer servers and setting up FAQ’s for each course.

5. Indexing of all video and web courses and setting up powerful search engines to enable content and keyword search on all topics in science and engineering developed under NPTEL6. Setting up internal infrastructure in each IIT for implementing virtual online certification programme in science and engineering

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31.8.20111. Conversion of NPTEL phase I video courses in streaming video lecture format – completed.2. Setting up eight distributed national video servers for delivering lectures on demand in each of the eight partner institutions (PI). – On going 3. Creation of additional 600 web and video courses in all major branches of engineering, physical sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management courses at the postgraduate level – 996 courses in Engineering, Sciences, Technology, Humanities and Management have been assigned and syllabus on the NPTEL website at http:// www.nptel.iitm.ac.in 4. Integration of college curricula in engineering education with NPTEL contents through a large number of course specific workshops and interaction with colleges in India for improving TEL infrastructure. – Completed5. Creation of discussion forum for each course created under the NPTEL using a grid of computer servers and setting up FAQ’s for each course. – On going 6. Indexing of all video and web courses and setting up powerful search engines to enable content and keyword search on all topics in science and engineering developed under NPTEL. – On going7. Setting up internal infrastructure in each IIT for implementing virtual online certification programme in science and engineering. – On going

2. PG Classes (A)

Physical Target Financial Target50 disciplines: 32 papers per discipline (Semester level); 1600 courses in all Rs. 100.00 crores

(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released

Deliverables Time Line

TERI University

PG Programme in environmental sciences

Rs.0.75 crore

E-content generation for 20 different courses under Environmental Sciences programme at postgraduate level using 4 quadrant approach – Air Quality Management, Water Quality Management, Environmental Statistics, Environmental Law & Policy, Environmental Management System, Environmental Remote Sensing, Environmental Modelling, Science & Policy of climate change, Environmental Laboratory, Hydrology, Environmental Geo-sciences, Integrated watershed management, Environmental Pollution & Control, Ecology, Environmental Economics, Environmental Chemistry, Landscape Ecology, Integrated Impact Assessment, Energy and Environment, Biodiversity

March 2012

IIT Kanpur Benchmarking ICT in Physics and Chemistry

Rs.1.01 crore

Physics: December, 2011

Basic courses/ blocks

1. Mathematical Physics2. Classical Mechanics 3.Quantum Mechanics4. Electrodynamics (Electricity & Magnetism)

Advance Courses

1. Introduction to Astronomy & Astrophysics 2. Introduction to Plasma Physics 3. Introducing Nuclear Physics4. Solid State / Condensed Matter Physics 5. Non linear Dynamics 6. E M Theory7. Experimental Physics8. Relativity9. Quantum Optics10. Laser Physics

Chemistry:Basic courses/ blocks

1. Main group Chemistry 2. Introductory quantum Mechanics 3. Physical Organic Chemistry 4. Chemical Kinetics 5. Experimental Organic Chemistry

Advance Courses

1. Basics of X-ray crystallography 2. Amino acids peptides & Proteins 3. Natural product Chemistry 4. Principles of Molecular magnetism 5. Nucleic acids, Nucleotides and Nucleosides 6. Bio-systems

UGC, New e-content Rs.84.00 Economics, Pol. Science, Philosophy, Psychology,

Delhi for PG courses 77 subjects

crores (being released)

Sociology, History, Anthropology, commerce, Education, Social Work, Defence and Strategic Studies, Home Science, Public Admn., Population Studies, Music, Management, Maithili, Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Arabic, English, Linguistics, Chinese, Dogri, Nepali, Manipuri, Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, French, Spanish, Russian, Persian, Rajasthani, German, Japanese, Adult Educn./ Continuing /Andragogy/Non Formal Edun., Physical Eudn. Arab culture and Islamic Studies, Indian Culture, Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/ Labour and Social Welfare/Human Resource Managemen, Law, Library and Information Science, Buddhist, Kaina, Gandhian and Peace Studies, Comparative Study of Religions, Mass Communication and Journalism, Performing Arts – Dance/Drama/Theatre, Museology & Conservation, Archaeology, Criminology, Tribal and Regional Language /Literature etc.

(C) Status of the Project as on date: 31.8.2011

TERI University Air Quality ManagementWater Quality ManagementEnvironmental StatisticsEnvironmental Law & PolicyEnvironmental Management SystemEnvironmental Remote SensingEnvironmental ModellingScience & Policy of climate changeEnvironmental LaboratoryHydrologyEnvironmental Geo-sciencesIntegrated watershed managementEnvironmental Pollution & ControlEcologyEnvironmental EconomicsEnvironmental ChemistryLandscape EcologyIntegrated Impact AssessmentEnergy and EnvironmentBiodiversity

CompletedCompletedCompletedCompletedOctober 2011October 2011October 2011October 2011October 2011October 2011October 2011March 2012March 2011March 2012March 2012March 2011March 2012March 2012March 2012March 2012

IIT Kanpur PhysicsBasic courses/ blocks

• Mathematical Physics(p)• Classical Mechanics (*)• Quantum Mechanics(*)• Electrodynamics (*) (Electricity & Magnetism)

*completedP-promised by December, 2011

Advance Courses• Introduction to Astronomy & Astrophysics (*)• Introduction to Plasma Physics (*/2)• Introducing Nuclear Physics(*)• Solid State / Condensed Matter Physics (p)• Non linear Dynamics (*)• E M Theory• Experimental Physics• Relativity(*/2)• Quantum Optics(p)• Laser Physics (p)

ChemistryBasic courses/ blocks

• Main group Chemistry (P)• Introductory quantum Mechanics (P)

Advance Courses• Basics of X-ray crystallography (P)• Aminoacids peptides & Proteins (*)

• Physical Organic Chemistry (P)• Chemical Kinetics (P)• Experimental Organic Chemistry (*)

*completedP-promised by Dec

• Natural product Chemistry (*)• Principles of Molecular magnetism (P)• Nucleic acids, Nucleotides and Nucleosides (*)• Biosystems (P)

UGC, New DelhiProposal submitted by the UGC has been approved by the PAB in its 21st meeting held on 11.8.2011

3. UG Classes

(A) As per Mission DocumentPhysical Target Financial Target80 Subjects; 24 Courses (Semester level per subject; 1920 courses in all) Rs. 100.00 Crores

(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

CEC-UGC, New Delhi

Production of Courseware (UG)

Rs. 5.90 Crores

Phase –I 6750 e-content modules of the following 19 subjects are to be developed; Physics, Communication & Journalism, Environmental Science, Hindi Language & Literature, Botany, Economics, Business Management, Zoology, History, English Language & Literature (H), Mathematics, Sociology, Anthropology (G+H), Computer Science, Geography, Performing arts, Chemistry, Geology

Phase –II Under phase – II e-content of 68 UG subjects are to be developed:B.A. Psychology, B.A. Social Welfare Administration, B.A. Human Rights, B.A. (Hons) Business Economics, B.A. (Hons) Hindi Journalism, B.A. (Hons) Music (Ravindra Sangeet), B.A. (Hons) Music (Karnataki Sangeet), B.A. (Hons) Music (Hindustani Classical), B.A. (Hons) Philosophy, B.A. (Hons) Political Science, B.A. (Hons) Sanskrit, B.A. (Hons) Social Work, B.A. (Hons) Urdu, B.A. Human Resource Management, B.A. Management & Marketing of Insurance, B.A. Marketing Management & Retail Business, B.A. Office Administration & Secretarial Practice, B.A. Tourism, B. A. (Foreign Language) French & Spanish, B. Arch., B.B.S., B.Ed., B.Ed. (English), B.Ed. (Special Education for Visually Impaired, B.El.Ed., B.Lib.Sc., B.P.Ed., B.Sc. (Gen) Mathematical Science, B.Sc. (Hons) Bio-Chemistry, B.Sc. (Hons) Biomedical Science, B.Sc. (Hons) Electronics, B.Sc. (Hons) Food Technology, B.Sc. (Hons) Home Science , B.Sc. (Hons) Microbiology, B.Sc. (Hons) Polymer Science, B.Sc. (Hons) Statistics, B.Sc. Agro-Chemical and Pest Control, B.Sc. Analytical Methods in Chem & Bio-Chem, B.Sc. Applied Life Science (Sericulture), B.Sc. Applied Physical Sciences (Computer Science), B.Sc. Applied Physical Sciences (Electronics), B.Sc. Applied Physical Sciences (Environmental Science), B.Sc. Applied Physical Sciences (Industrial Chemistry), B.Sc. Life Sciences , B.Sc. Agriculture, B.Sc. Physical Sciences, Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Hons) Instrumentation, Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA Painting Applied Art Sculpture, Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Population Studies (E.M. & T.M.), Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Public Administration, B.A. LLB, B. Pharmacy, Multimedia, Text Editing & Manuscriptology, Criminology & Forensic Science , B.A. Yogic Science , B. A. in Film Studies, B. A. Vocational Studies (Accounts), B. A. Vocational Studies (Advertisement), B. A. Vocational Studies (Computer), B. A. Vocational Studies (Office Audit), B. A. Vocational Studies (Photography), B. A. Vocational Studies (Book Publishing), B. A. Vocational Studies (Videography), B. A. Vocational Studies in 22 Courses, BTA (Bachelor for Theatre Arts), B. Sc (Bio-Informatics)

Phase-I to be completed by 31st March, 2013

Phase-II shall be completed by 31st March, 2015

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31. 08. 2011The CEC with the assistance of 17 media centres across the country has on date produced 743 modules of the 19 subjects being under taken under phase 1.The e-content produced are based on 4 quadrant approach and has got objectives, course summary, video/audio, text, FAQs, case studies, assignment, reference, download, quiz, glossaries, blog etc. in their template.The syllabus taken is based on UGC model course curriculum and the curriculum covered by the major Universities.

4. Video content digitization, conversion, chunking and dubbing CEC/IGNOU/NCERT/SIET/OTHERS(A)

Physical Target Financial Target100,000 video programmes developed over a period of time to be digitized,

repurposed etc. Rs.50.00 crore

(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

IIT, Madras ICT Project on Text Transcription of Technical Video Lectures and Creation of Video Searchable Index, Metadata and Online Quzzes

Rs.1.575 crore

1. The project proposed o produce transcript files for all video lectures produced in NPTEL Phase I in phased manner – about 1000 files every six months. So far about 4376 lectures have been transcribed through a manual transcription process and having data on speech (in English) with sufficient variation in pronunciation by Indian English speakers for training machines for automatic speech-to-text transcription with an improved accuracy about 60 per cent or so. The project proposes to generate enough data when completed, so that a large number of NPTEL Phase-II video lectures can be text transcribed using automatic means. 2. Every transcribed lecture is being time coded and indexed using technologies available on the net and standard text books. This will enable the user to point to a particular video segment through a single or a rapid keyword based search on all the 4600 or so hours of recorded material. When completed, this will also be the first time in technical education all over the world that such facilities and standard video based metadata are available on the internet for the entire science and engineering curriculum. 3. The availability of complete text material for technology courses will enable the lectures to be subtitled in English, Hindi and other languages where sufficient technical vocabulary exists. This will help non-native English speakers and students in rural colleges throughout India to learn the concept through a partial or complete translation of the spoken content in their first language. 4.Every course with video lectures will be accompanied by quizzes online to facilitate the reader to understand the material in a focused manner. Also such quizzes can provided the basis for future university examinations adopting NPTEL contents.

2 years.

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31.8.20111. Accurately transcribe and certify text files with video images of all lectures from 4600 hours of video lectures. Approximately 92,000 print pages (A4) will be made available for online access. The text files will be certified by the faculty who developed the video courses. This will enable viewers to browse through authenticated text contents of 4,600 hours of engineering lessons in video and search for specific topics with the help of powerful search engines. Transcription of more than 4376 hours of video lectures has been completed Uploading on website – On going.2. Every transcribed lecture is being time coded and indexed using technologies available on the net and standard text books. This will enable the user to point to a particular video segment through a single or a rapid keyword based search on all the 4600 or so hours of recorded material. When completed, this will also be the first time in technical education all over the world that such facilities and standard video based metadata are available on the internet for the entire science and engineering curriculum – on going.3. The availability of complete text material for technology courses will enable the lectures to be subtitled in English, Hindi and other languages where sufficient technical vocabulary exists. This will help non-native English speakers and students in rural colleges throughout India to learn the concept through a partial or complete translation of the spoken content in their first language – On going 4. Every course will video lectures will be accompanied by quizzes online to facilitate the reader to understand the material in a focused manner. Also such quizzes can provide the basis for future university examinations adopting NPTEL contents on going

5. Provision of e-books and e-journals free to the learners(A)

Physical Target Financial Target6000 e-books and e-journals Rs.100.00 crore(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad (IIT, Delhi)

N-LIST Rs.55.115 crore

A. Cross-Subscription Component

SN

Item

1Access to Web of Science to 100 Universities already started

Access to Web of Science to 50 UGC-INFONET DLC Phase I Universities

April 2010

Access to additional 50 UGCINFONET DLC Universities April 20112 Access to Annual Reviews, Nature and Project Muse to 21

Technical Institutions 2010 onwards

Access to Annual Reviews, Nature and Project Muse to additional 13 Institutions

2011 onwards

B. College Component 1 Access to 3700+ e-journals and 74000+ e-books to 1482

colleges As on

September 9, 2011

2 Target to enroll more colleges as follows

2000 colleges will be given access to e-resources with ~2,20,000 users 3000 colleges will be given access to e-resources with ~2,40,000 users 4000 colleges will be given access to e-resources with ~2,75,000 users

October 2011

December 2011

March, 2012C Access to IEL Online, ASME and ASCE to 100 Engineering

Colleges (proposed )September 15

2011(C)Status of the Project as on date 31.8.2011

The N-LIST programme covers almost all subject disciplines except Medicine, Pharmacology, Engineering and Technology, It covers all relevant areas taught in colleges such as Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical and Chemical Sciences, Life Sciences, Computer Sciences, Political Sciences, Library and Information Sciences, Law, Business, Mathematics, Statistics etc. Electronic resources subscribed under the N-LIST programme are as follows:

No of e-journals subscribed under the N-LIST programme = 2154. No of e-books subscribed / purchased under the N-LIST programme

= 55246 from 297 publishers.

6. Developing suitable pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibers in e-learning (A)

Physical Target Financial TargetResearch and knowledge dissemination activity Rs.150.00 crore(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

IIT, Kharagpur

Developing suitable pedagogical methods for various classes intellectual calibers and e-learning

Rs.2.5 crore

Sample Outcomes-based Curriculum Document for B Tech Courses

First Research Review Report after 6 months

Identification of all team members and allocation of assignments 3 months

Conduct 20 workshops/seminars across India 6 month

Establish major core hardware and software facilities 6 months

Develop first theoretical framework

4 months

Formulate tentative online development and review process 4-6 months

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31.8.2011 Major Deliverables: Sample Outcomes based Curriculum Document for B. Tech Courses. Sample Outcomes-based Curriculum Document for around 85 B Tech courses are almost complete to the planned level (22 unites out of 40 units)

First Research Review Report - after 6 months completed and uploaded on project site http://pedagogy@iitkgp.ernet.in

Identification of all team members and allocation of assignments - 3 months Completed and uploaded on project site. Please login to the site using your passworld and click on All users [TEMPORARY Login: courseview, Password: courseview 123]

Conduct 20 workshops/seminars across India – 6 month Conducted 13 workshops/seminars across India without the VC facility

Establish major core hardware and software facilities – 6 months Expecting VC facility all required H/W & S/W installed.

Develop first theoretical framework – 4 months Competed and uploaded on project site

Formulate tentative online development and review process - 4-6 months Completed and uploaded on project site. Please see DOWNLOAD section

7. Development of Language Converter and Translation Tool Kit (A) As per Mission DocumentPhysical Target Financial TargetTechnology development and research activities Rs. 25.00 Crores (B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore and IIT, Bombay

Creation of Bi-lingual Corpora and Development of Machine Aided Translation Engines

1 Crore Deliverables for DPR ProposalPhase I : •Annotated Parallel Corpora of 2 lakh sentences for English-Tamil MAT Engine.•Bi-lingual (English-Tamil) Dictionary with 1 lakh words.•Bi-lingual (English-Tamil) Technical Dictionary with 3 lakh terms.•Word Sense Disambiguator for Tamil and Hindi.•Bi-lingual (Tamil-Hindi) Dictionary with 1 lakh words.•Bi-lingual (Tamil-Hindi) Technical Dictionary with 3 lakh terms.•Parallel Corpus of 2 lakh proper nouns for Tamil-Hindi Transliteration.•Morphological Generator for Hindi.•Sentence splitter.

Phase II :•English-Tamil MAT system version 2.0.•Tamil-Hindi MAT system version 1.0.

Phase I (Sept 2011): •Annotated Parallel Corpora of 2 lakh sentences for English-Hindi MAT Engine.•Bi-lingual (English-Hindi) Dictionary with 1 lakh words.•Bi-lingual (English-Hindi) Technical Dictionary with 3 lakh terms.

Phase II (March, 2012):•English-Hindi MAT system version 2.0.

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31. 08. 2011Bilingual technical dictionaries (Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Agriculture, Mathematics, etc.) (Completed: 2 lakhs words, Target: 3 lakhs words)Sentence Splitter and Analyser (Completed)Hindi Translation (Completed)Developed English to Tamil MAT Engine Version 2.0Developed English to Hindi MAT Engine Version 1.0Performance of our English to Tamil/ Hindi MAT Engine is comparable to Google Translate SystemDeveloped Web based Tamil dictionary

8. Development and realization of Virtual Reality Laboratories and Supporting Facilities for e-learning

(A) Physical Target Financial Target

100 virtual labs: each lab having at lest 10 experiments Rs.200.00 crore(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

IIT, Delhi Virtual labs

Rs.78.00 crore

Development of Virtual Labs in the major branches of Engg. Disciplines: Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engg., Chemical Sciences, Mechanical Eng., Civil Engg., Physical Sciences, Biotechnology, Computer Science and Engg, Chemical Engg.

March, 2012

DEI, Agra Quantum and Nano Computing Virtual Centre

Rs.3.50 crore

1. Augmentation of distance learning infrastructure and single qubit computing devicesOrganization of e-lectures / seminars / webcasts on regular basis between partner institutesOrganization of First International on Quantum-Nano Computing Systems2.. Development of web-based courses, virtual labs enabling experimentations in distance modeOrganization of e-lectures / seminars / webcasts on regular basis between partner institutesOrganization of Second International on Quantum-Nano Computing Systems3. Augmentation of e-facilities as National / International Hub in the fieldOrganization of e-lectures / seminars / webcasts on regular basis between partner institutesOrganization of Third International on Quantum-Nano Computing Systems

2010 (Year 1)

2011 (Year 2)

2012 (Year 3)

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31.8.2011Virtual Labs: S.No. Discipline Pilot

PhaseMain Phase

No. of Labs

No. of Experiments

No. of Labs

No. of Experiments Developed till 3rd evaluation (Mar-Apl,2011)

1 Electronics & Communication

5 40 19 114

2 Electrical Engg. 3 18 19 1143 Chemical Sc. 1 8 134 Mechanical Engg. 6 37 26 1565 Civil Engg 2 14 14 846 Physical Sciences 4 26 12 727 Biotechnology 2 16 16 968 Computer Sc. &

Engg.1 6 35 210

9 Chemical Engg. 1 5 6 36Quantum and Nano Computing Virtual Centre

Indian Roadmap for Quantum Computation / Information being prepared on lines of American and European efforts Prototype of SQUID (Spintronix) Quantum Computer being developed Annual Winter School on Quantum-Nano Computing (QANSAS) being organized (2009, 2010, 2011 . .) for students /

researchers Introductory books on the subject published in India Over 1000 students and researchers trained and the field seeded in India Over 100 video lectures digitized and uploaded on Project website indexed to Sakshat

9. Experimentation and Development of ultra low cost access device for wider coverage of learners and their field trials

(A)Physical Target Financial Target

Research and Development Activity Rs.25.00 crore(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

IIT, Rajasthan

Testing of Low Cost Access-cum-Computing Device; Hardware and Software Optimization of Low Cost Access Devices

Rs.47.72 crores

LCAD

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31.8.2011 LCAD being developed by IIT, Rajasthan. It is expected that first lot of such devices (around 10,000) would be reaching IIT, Rajasthan soon. Thereafter, modalities will be worked out to have these devices tested in all climatic conditions of the country.

10. Talk to a teacher to provide a substitute for coaching for the economically poor students (A) As per Mission DocumentPhysical Target Financial Target60 subjects; 10 chapters for each subject; 2 experts for each chapter; 24*7*365 for 5 years

Rs. 100.00 Crores

(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

(a)

IIT, Bombay, DEI and Amrita University

(b)

IIT, Roorkee

(a) Talk to a Teacher(AKA) Teachers empowerment, studentsempowerment, and integration of tools forempowerment (synchronous delivery)

(b)VSAT-Enabled Mobile e-learning Terminals

(a)Rs. 79.15 Crores

(b) Rs.3.00 Crores

(a)Deliverables from IIT Bombay1. Live transmission, recording and course generation. In addition to making the course content from IIT available, this makes available also the methodology: punctuality, delivering all lectures, rigour of arguments, assignments, asking questions, discussions, etc.2. Spoken tutorials: This refers to recording a computer session and converting into audio, video tutorial. To dub the audio into various Indian languages. Make these suitable for self learning.3. Conduct workshops through spoken tutorials. As domain experts are not required for conducting these, one can do many workshops using the spoken tutorials.4. Conduct 12 teacher training programmes, each of which will train 1,000 teachers at a time. Do this through A-VIEW.

Deliverables from Amrita University1. A set of modules to extend the capabilities of A-VIEW.2. Teacher node capability.3. A-VIEW deployment for student nodes.4. Supporting institutions.

Deliverables from DEI1. Synchronous delivery of courses.2. Content generation for courses in CS/Engineering using chalk and board kind of interactive classroom recordings or video conferenced recordings with other premier institutions.3. Video-on-demand system.4. Course e-Books for courses in CS/Engineering. This is to make available the edited version of the course notes in a neatly formatted electronic form and if possible, published form at very low cost.

(b)•The mobile e-learning terminals will deliver the e-contents developed under the Mission from the servers to be set-up under the Mission. Therefore, these are excluded from the scope of the present proposal. To develop a prototype of mobile e-learning terminal, comprising a van, VSAT equipment and computer/network/multimedia equipment suitable for use in remote areas where no other reliable mode of data connectivity is available. •To purchase and equip vans based on the above prototype and deploy them in the remote aGreas to be selected for the pilot.•To cater to the need of e-learning of the college students in these remote areas through a network of major institutions/ universities, who will control, operate and maintain them in their respective states.

To be completed by 31st March 2012

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31. 08. 2011(a) IIT, Bombay

No. Activity Original 31 Aug. 2011 31 March, 2012 30 June 2012123456

CoursesTextbook generationOriginal spoken tutorialDubbed spoken tutorialWorkshops1,000 Teacher training workshops

10040100020002512

250150300505

40075015002008

5001000200050012

DEI

No. Activity Original 31 Aug. 2011 31 March, 2012 30 June 20121234

Sync. Delivery of coursesContent generationVideo-on-demandCourse e-books

30303030

121210

16161616

16202020

Amrita UniversityNo. Activity Original 31 Aug. 2011 31 March, 2012 30 June 20121234

A-VIEW development modulesA-VIEW deployment teacher (no. of nodes)A-VIEW deployment student (no. of nodes)A-VIEW support (no. of institutions)

10202002000

7220500

12202005000

14404008000

(b)• Developed 12 Prototype of mobile e-learning terminals.• Vans with custom-designed body and interior. • Equipment fitted in the vans, including VSAT . • Network of universities/institutions.• Trained operators for mobile e-learning terminals. • Trial runs and fine tuning.• Final deployment of mobile e-learning terminals in the field.• Impact analysis

11. Adaptation & deployment of open source simulation packages equivalent to MATLAB, ORCAD, etc

(A) As per Mission DocumentPhysical Target Financial TargetResearch & Development and Knowledge dissemination activities Rs. 50.00 Crores (B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

IIT, Roorkee

Software tools, Open Source tools, Simulation tools (SOS)

Rs. 5.00 Crores

• To develop web based software tools using Open Source Software• To develop open source repository of developed software tool source codes• To create a forum for user interaction• To continuously update the software on the basis of user feedback• To conduct workshops and training programs for teachers as well as students on usage of developed software

To be completed by March 31st, 2012

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31. 08. 2011 I. Software tools developed in each of the discipline are:

• Power system analysis - 10• Power Electronics and Drives - 9• Control systems - 45• Digital signal & Image processing - 5• Numerical methods - 44• Statistical methods - 43• Optimization techniques – 40

II. One workshop was organized to give awareness to faculty of various engineering institutes. About 40 faculty members participated in the workshopIII. Demonstration of software tools was given to participants of courses organized under Quality Improvement Program of AICTE for the faculty of Engineering Institutes.IV. Demonstration of tools was given to students of IIT Roorkee and their feedback was taken to make necessary changes in the packages developed.

12. Development of unified ERP System for Educational Institutions (A) As per Mission DocumentPhysical Target Financial TargetExamination, Registration and Result declaration etc modules to be developed in 100 premier Institutions

Rs. 20.00 Crores

(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

IIT, Kanpur and 9 Other Institutions

Educational Resource Planning (ERP) Mission

Rs. 7.506 Crores

● Learning Management● Student behaviour tracking and Visualization● Time table management● Library manangement system● Asset management system, tracking system with APIs to interface tracking devices.● Project management system● Grant management system● Localization into regional languages● Cloud API● Security framework● P2P Brihaspati-4.● Service upgradation to Chaupal based storage cloud for all academic institutes.● Upgrade to OpenID based authentication and authorisation● Online academic registration system – to be made operational.● Student portfolio management system.● Parent notification and interaction system.● Payroll, taxation and accouting system.● BrihasptiSync – live lecture delivery system.● Brihaspati websites – Content managementsystem.

The project should be completed by 31st March, 2012

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31. 08. 2011The workshops have been done by IIT Kanpur in April 2011, DEI in July2011, AVV in August 2011. Next upcoming workshops are in JMI in September, AMVDU in October. Every other institute is scheduled to have a workshop in November, Dec, Jan and Feb of 2012.

IIT Kanpur● The multi-institutional architecture (Brihaspati-3) is released on http://sourceforge.net/ projects/brihaspati and http://brihsvn.iitk.ernet.in/repos/brihaspati/trunk/brihaspati2.● One server have been started and available for providing LMS services to any institute in India at http://brihsvn.iitk.ernet.in:8080/brihaspati/servlet/brihaspati● Second mirror server is currently being tested. Thus we will have 1+1 protection for the services.● Currently 68 institutes have created their space on this system.● Bugzilla based bug and feature management system operational for the management of development activity.● Open-id based authentication - already operational, gmail and yahoo to be added soon.● JXTA based storage cloud in another three months, addition of servers at other institutes in this cloud to form single signon cluster.● Many new features added - secondary instructor management, institutional logo management, integeration of BrihaspatiSync - live lecture delivery system - they use same database in backend.● At many places code has been optimized - introduction of separate thread for maintainence tasks, and sending update and other kinds of emails. This has made the system response faster.● System for conducting tests and quizes have been added jointly with DEI team.● Brihaspati-4 (fully P2P system) basic design has been understood and now being documented.● Brihaspati Website - current design document is in progress. Will be designed over Spring framework.● Work to upgrade the whole system to Turbine-4 in progress.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus

Links to projects at http://sakshat.amrita.ac.in/erp/, email: amritaerp@gmail.com National Faculty Expertise Database, DIVE released by Amrita, as source code.MHRD Multisite Grant Management System (MGMS)● Latest version of MGMS is available online● Multiple Institutions, Multi-Site / Campus● Completed workflow as used in Sakshat for proposal submission, review and tracking, Project Information● Grants Available, Grant Details, Release of Grant● Completed records of disbursements against budgeted head, Transfer of Funds, Allocation● Utilization Certificate, Monitoring & Closure● User Management, Reports - Budget Related, Cash Flow Change, Withdrawal Report, Budget Received, Budget Distributed, Surrender● Deployment - Amrita Medical Research Center, Kochi for over a year, Ongoing in Amritapuri and Ettimadai campuses.Multi University Visualization● commits done - Student Registry, Student Self Registration, Student – learning pattern records, Student ‘Life Learning Record’● Multi-site enabled visualization with dashboard National Faculty Expertise System● functional as service.● Directory of faculty completed - Names, Department, institution, Contacts● Directory of expertise completed - research, publications, conferences and papers.● Multi-institute capable● Search Interfaces completed - by name and/or any combination of keywords, Campus, expertise, Institution Framework for Language Lab● framework release 1 complete● ability for audio recording, role play● ability to integrate dictionary● Quiz module in progress Collaborative Framework (only initial development under ERP, most of the work done as partof Virtual Labs)● Deployed at http://developer.vlab.co.in● Number of universities hosted in this platform - 12● Number of experiments hosted - 607● Number of registered users - 992● Number of visitors in last 4 months - 50,000● Number of page views - 2,52,000● Configurable templates completed● Googleid integration completed● CMS functionality completed● web publishing completed Other● Malayalam , Tamil translation for Brihaspati-3 done, for LibMS, EMS, BrihaspatiSync, PICO, PMS and other project - pending.Workshops● Training in December 2010 for GMS at Amrita● Workshop planned for all ERP projects in August 2011 at AmritaDEI AgraProject management system - second revised code available for download. Still to be used as National service● Multi institute capable● Role Based access● Managing any type of project.● Resource Allocation● Gantt Chart● Integrated with BugzillaOnline academic registration system - implemented and used in DEI● Multi institute capable● Role Based access● Enrolment and registration of students.● Registration cancellation.● Student verification● Student Marks Approval and verification● Support for Grading and percentage evaluation● All type of programs supported including of integrated, distance, dual regular.● Flexible to handle any type of evaluation of a course code.● Student Tracking● Printing of degrees and progress cards of students● Various reports as required by UGC.Online examination system - developed and committed with the help of IIT Kanpur.● Flexibility of setting up quizzes either random or selective questions.

● Preview facility● Enhanced security with user password and IP address.● Reevaluation● Practice quiz● Support for multiple chice/true false/short and long type questions.OMR evaluation system: Released, to be integerated in some National multi-institutional service.● Evaluate OMR Sheet.● Section wise questions● Result in Excel sheetAdmission system - Development is completed. Implemented at DEI. Released after successful test. National multi-institutional service yet to be developed.● Multi institute capable● Role Based access● Flexible for admission to any program● Initial call list● Final Merit list● Choice for any papers● Special weight ages● Normalization of marksCFMS- Campus Facility Management system design completed. Development is in progress.● Room Booking● Resource tracking● Time tableIIT Roorkee● Time table management with multi-user environment - version 1 code created. Currently integerated with Brihaspati-3. Not in use due to bugs and design flaws. Pending revision.● Online academic registration system - taken up but nothing much contributed by IITR.● GIS based information display system - Not much progress.NIT Hamirpur● Gurmukhi/Punjabi translation for Brihaspati-3 is done on regular basis.● Alumni management system - basic system done, porting to java, conversion to multi-institutional system still pending.● Course planner system - design in process. Yet to finish the system.IGNOU Delhi● Profile management system (e- Portfolio)○ Database design of profile module is almost ready.○ DFD and ER diagram of base module is ready.○ Coding work for the base module is on.○ Base module was to be made ready by October 2010 end, but still not much progress.○ No commit from IGNOU so far.● Brihaspati websites (CMS systems for management and creation of institutes’ websites):○ Taken over by IIT Kanpur as not much progress was made.AMU Aligarh● Library Management System (LibMS)○ Detailed design specifications provided in the main specification document.○ Base version of LibMS (Multi-Instituitional multi-layered multi-lingual) released.○ MARC 21 interface for LibMS ready. To be integrated soon with the LibMS.● Base version of multi-institutional and multi-lingual Election Management System ready to be released.JMI Delhi● Stores and Purchase system - design in progress.● Development work started on Administrative interface for the multi institutional PICO module● Not much progress, code is yet to be committed.SMVDU Jammu● Payroll system - Basic Payroll system to generate Dynamic and customized salary heads and salary structures to compute and store monthly salary of the employees is done.● Following basic reports have been developed:○ Monthly Employee Pay-slip Report○ Monthly Pay-Roll Report○ Monthly Bank Statement Report○ Yearly Employee PF Report● User manual of the Basic Payroll Module is almost complete.● Field value validations in each form at user end in Basic Payroll System● Design of Employee wise Yearly Payroll Report● Tax Management Sub Module integrated with Payroll System● Provident Fund calculation and Management Module integrated with Payroll System● Code already implemented and tested at SMVDU, Katra . The bugs were fixed and is fully functional and ready for use for other institutes

● Code committed, but not functional. Problems in compiling the source.● Cooperation from SMVDU team needed to resolve the issues so that only functional code can be committed.Overall, there is lot of difference in commitment of different PIs. Some team find it difficult to hire. Some PIs are not committing the time as they should due to preference for other consultancy projects. Having a provision of remuneration to PIs will probably make PIs more interested and committal to project. Further most of the challenging work like, openid, cloud formation was taken up by IIT Kanpur, but due to sudden surge of academic load (doubling of teaching and five times increase in thesis supervision) had slowed down the core engineering effort. Although this has not affected any team other than IITK. Some of the teams take documentation as least preferred work. Some partners have tendency to claim work done in other projects also in this mission although it is equivalent to self plagiarism and hence unethical. Overall cultural and ethical differences among all institutional partners have been seen and pose a biggest challenge in managing and coordinating the activity at National Level.The projection is that by March 2012, the cloud and OpenID will be functional. Interfacing with UID Aadhar may not happen as it is yet to be explored. Live lecture delivery system based on P2P system will be functional. Good thing is that I expect Brihaspati-4 basic prototype to be ready for use which is more than what we expected a year back.

13. Development of Vocational Education modules and use of haptic devices for education and training

(A)Physical Target Financial Target

1000 modules covering 100 disciplines Rs.100.00 crore(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables* Time Line

DEI, Agra Vocational courses e-enabled with delivery through ICT and conversion to regional languages

Rs.1.00 crore

Activity 2009- Oct. 2010

2010-2011 2011-2012 Indicated along with deliverables (* deliverables will be given as per the time line, if a part of main grant is given ** Already done)

Deliverables Pilot Project** 4 Programmes 4 Programmes

Programmes 1. Textile Designing & Printing

(5 courses)

2. Motor Vehicle Mechanic: Four Wheeler

3. Modern Office Management and

Secretarial Practice

4. Dress Designing & Tailoring

5. Wireman6. Textile

Designing & Printing (5 courses)

7. Textile Technology

8. Electrician9. Turner

Scripting of Lessons 30.9.2009 31.3.2011 31.10.2011

Editing & Review of Lessons

30.9.2009 31.3.2011 31.10.2011

Recording of Video Lectures

30.6.2009 30.6.2011 31.12.2011

Editing of Video Lectures

30.6.2011 15.9.2011 31.01.2011

Web uploading & on-line discussion

15.9.2011 31.10.2011 31.01.2011

Translation in to regional languages – Hindi/ English

15.9.2010 31.12.2011 31.03.2011

Translation in to regional languages - Tamil

31.10.2010 31.12. 2011 31.03.2011

Amrita University, Agra

Vocational courses and use of haptic devices

Rs.2.15 crore

Develop Linear haptic Device (prototype) Dec-2011

Develop software interfaces for Linear haptic device – Hacksaw, File, Nov-2011

Table saw, Planar, Jigsaw, Band-saw

Develop Rotational haptic device (prototype) - 2 devices Dec-2011

Develop software interfaces for Rotational haptic device –Bench saw, mitre saw, brick cutter, Nut& Ratchet

Nov-2011

Develop Accelerometer based device (Smart tool) Dec-2011

Study and Analysis of Haptic functions that are highly common in technical vocational trades. (Characterization)

Nov-2011

Validation of linear haptic device Dec-2011

Develop computerized plumbing training program (MES Asst. Plumber curriculum) in malayalam, hindi, english

Jan-2012

Deploy Fabric Painting in malayalam and study ROI Dec-2011

Deploy Plumbing course with haptics and show ROI Jan-2012

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31.8.2011DEI, Agra:1. Website developed under sakshat portal. 2. Textile Designing & Printing programme 30 courses in Tamil, Hindi and English developed3. Motor vehicle mechanic programme in English developed. 4. Wireman programme in Hindi developedAmrita University, Agra:Assistant Plumber (MES Course): Videos: 80% complete, Interactive Tutorials: 70% complete 3D VR concept learning modules : 50% complete Linear Haptic Device: Device development: 90% complete, Software Interfaces Linear: 60% complete, Validation studies Linear: 25% completeRotary Haptic Device:Device Development: 60% complete, Software Interfaces: 50% complete, Validation Studies (not part of deliverables): -0% completeSmart Tools: Device Development: 80% complete.

14. Connectivity to universities and colleges under NMEICT

(A)Physical Target Financial Target

2000 nodes for 1 Gbps connectivity at each of the 100 Central Institutions / premier institutions to be connected through BSNL Internet + VPN Plan

Rs.500.00 crore

15-20 nodes for 7.5-10 Mbps connectivity at each of the 18000 Institutions of Higher Learning connected through BSNL Internet + VPN Plan

Rs.1000.00 crore

(B)Project Assigned to

Name of the Project

Fund Released so far

Deliverables Time Line

BSNL, MTNL

Connectivity to universities and colleges

Rs.755.45 crore

1Gbps connectivity to 419 universities (400 by BSNL and 19 by MTNL)

July, 2012

10 Mbps connectivity by way of 20*512 Kbps VPN connection to colleges (10 VPN connections in year-1, 15 in year -2 and 20 in year -3)

July, 2012

10Gbps internet Bandwidth July, 2011NKN connectivity at 4 locations July, 2010LAN of 400 Nodes per university July, 2012

(C)Status of the Project as on date 31.8.2011University connectivity Total Connected Configured Connected + Configured400 375 06 381College ConnectivityTotal Connected VPN connections28,000 12,435 83,772Internet Bandwidth Total Gateway Bandwidth Allotted

Peak Utilization

10Gbps 6.7Gbps (67%)NKN ConnectivityTotal Locations Connected 4 1 (Hyderabad)LANAPO is placed to M/s Sai Infosystems India Ltd & M/s Sterlite Technologies Ltd on 06-07-2011.