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centrally-funded technical institutions, universities and colleges that are covered under 12(B) and 2(f)
Sections of the UGC Act. Activities and Services of e-Shodh Sindhu is described in detail at 7.1.

18.2. ICSSR Data Service: Social Science Data Repository

The project on “ICSSR Data Service: Social Science Data Repository” is culmination of signing of
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) that provides for setting up of repository
and hosting of NSS and ASI datasets into the data repository. The Project on ICSSR Data Service: Social
Science Data Repository assigned to the INFLIBNET Centre is described in detail at 12.

18.3. Development of Web Portal for National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) – 2017

Development of Web-portal for the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), a prestigious

initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), was awarded to the INFLIBNET
Centre. The Centre developed portal to capture data required for ranking of universities, colleges and
other institutions desirous of ranking themselves under various categories. The Centre also provides
publications and citations data from Web of Science, Scopus and Indian Citation Index for more than
3,000 institutions that had applied for ranking themselves for ranking under NIRF. NIRFis described in
detail at 13.

18.4. Food Safety Knowledge Assimilation Network (FSKAN): A project by FSSAI

FSKAN is conceived as a platform designed to facilitate scientific co-operation amongst organizations

by co-ordination of activities, exchange of information, development and implementation of joint
projects. The INFLIBNET was assigned the task of developing a platform to assimilate all the
information on single platform. The platform is being incorporated with different modules such as
Expert Management System, e-Resources, Project Proposal System, discussion forum, etc.

18.5. SWAYAM-PRABHA

The INFLIBNET Centre was assigned the task of developing website of SWAYAM-PRABHA and its
hosting including achieving of videos of all the channel. The platform provides for uploading of

programme schedule by the channel coordinators, display of programme schedule (current, upcoming
and archives), searching of e-content/videos using different kinds of filters such as channel-wise search
and subject-wise search; and dashboard for MHRD, BISAG and admin view. The portal would also
provide for playing of archival videos that have already been telecasted on the channels. Current status
of SWAYAM-PRABHA is described in details at 14.

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