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be repeated 6 times in a day, allowing the students to choose his / her convenient time slot. The DTH
Channels would cover education material for school education, higher education and curriculum-based

courses that can meet the needs of life-long learners of students in India and abroad. The project
provides for creation of requisite infrastructure at the INFLIBNET Centre for archiving of video contents
for 32 channels and providing requisite support to BISAG for its live telecasting.

The Web-based platform for SWAYAM PRABHA was developed in a record time of one week. The

platform provides for uploading of programme schedule, display of current, upcoming and archival
videos, searching of e-content / videos using different kinds of filters such as channel-wise and subject-
wise search, using dashboard for MHRD and BISAG and admin view. The portal also facilitates viewing of
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archival videos that have already been telecasted on 32 channels of SWAYAM-PRABHA. The 3
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Workshop on SWAYAM-PRABHA, was conducted at BISAG, Gandhinagar on 25 January, 2017. All
channel coordinators and associated staff from various institute participated in the Workshop.
Scientists from INFLIBNET Centre also participated in the Workshop as developer of portal for

SWAYAM-PRABHA.

Food Safety Knowledge Assimilation Network (FSKAN) was another project awarded to the Centre
during the year under report. FSKAN involves task of developing a platform to facilitate scientific co-
operation by co-ordination of activities, exchange of information, development and implementation of

joint projects amongst a network of organizations within the Food Authority's responsibility through
FSKAN. The platform is being designed to assimilate all the information on a single platform. The portal
incorporates different modules such as Expert Management System, e-Resources, Project Proposal

System, discussion forum, etc.

While taking new projects and schemes, it was ensured that our existing initiatives are not neglected.
Shodhganga: a repository of full-text theses in Indian Universities has grown by leaps and bounds during
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the year under report. As on 31 March, 2017, 309 universities have signed MoU on Shodhganga with the
INFLIBNET Centre including 28 universities who signed the MoU during the financial year under report.

Total numbers of theses deposited in the repository have grown to 1,39,139. Moreover, 70 universities
that are signatory to MoU with INFLIBNET Centre on Shodhganga, have received funds from UGC as per
the recommendation of the INFLIBNET Centre as incentive for joining this initiative. In addition,

recommendations for release of funds to 26 universities signatory of MoU with INFLIBNET Centre are
awaiting release of funds from UGC. These universities can now digitize backlists of their theses, setup
ETD laboratory and get access to anti-plagiarism detection software through INFLIBNET Centre.

Noteworthy developments were made under e-content projects namely, e-PG Pathshala and
Vidya-mitra. 13,076 e-text, 10,800 self-learning (video), 13,000 self-assessment and 10,000 learn more

modules were developed and uploaded into e-PG Pathshala across 70 subjects. Vidya-mitra, as on 31 st

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