Government comes up with software tools for 22 Indian languages

Software tools are freely-downloaded from the website http://www.ildc.in

GN Bureau | August 8, 2011



Sachin Pilot, minister of state for communication and information technology said that the department of IT under its “Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme” has brought out CDs containing software tools for all the 22 constitutionally recognised Indian languages.

In a written reply to a question, Pilot informed the Rajya Sabha that the software tools have been released in the public domain. These software and tools are freely-downloaded from the website http://www.ildc.in. He stated that most of the tasks which can be performed in English computing like text processing, e-mailing, internet browsing, spreadsheet, presentations, database creation and access, web development can also be performed in constitutionally recognised Indian languages.

He also informed the House that the total sale of C-DAC’s language software during the last decade was of the value of Rs.32.73 crore.

 

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