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7.2.8.2. Average Cost of E-books

Most of the e-books under the N-LIST programme had already been purchased for all existing 4,233
colleges on “one-time purchase basis or perpetual access basis”. In 2016-2017, only Ebrary was
subscribed on annual subscription basis for 3800 colleges. Average cost per book per college of
Ebrary was Rs. 0.05 as shown in Table 23.

E-resources No. of No. Res Price per College per
colleges Title in Rs.
Ebrary 3800 125000 0.05

Table 23: Average Cost of E-books per College per Title

7.2.9. Honours and Awards

The N-LIST Programme was honoured with three awards in the years 2010 and 2011, namely i) Jury
Choice Award e-INDIA 2010; ii) The Manthan South Asia Award 2010 in Digital Learning Category for the

year 2010; and iii) Skoch Digital Inclusion Awards 2011 in Technology in Education Category for the N-
LIST project. Dr Jagdish Arora, Director and Shri Ashok Kumar Rai, Scientist D (CS), INFLIBNET Centre
received the Skoch Digital Inclusion Awards 2011 award from Shri N C Saxena, Member, National

Advisory Council & Distinguished Fellow, Skoch Development Foundation on 1 September 2011 during
Skoch Digital Inclusion Award ceremony at Delhi.

8. e-Learning and e-Content Development

8.1. e-PG Pathshala (http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/)

Jagdish Arora, Director
Abhishek Kumar, Scientist C (CS)

Kannan P., Scientist B (LS)
Shweta Brahmbhatt, Project Officer (CS)
Atul Patel, Project Assistant (LS)

e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-

ICT) being executed by the UGC. The development & maintenance of portal and administrative
responsibilities are assigned to INFLIBNET Centre. The content and its quality being the key component
of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 77 subjects across all
disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics

and languages are being developed by the subject experts (professor, associate professor, assistant
professor or equivalent) working in universities (central, state, deemed) and other R & D institutes
across the country. Every subject has a team of principal investigator, paper coordinators, content

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