A multilingual knowledge portal namely ‘Vikaspedia’ has been developed and launched as part of the national level initiative – India Development Gateway (InDG), dedicated for providing information/knowledge, ICT based knowledge products and services in six domains of social development.
This is an initiative of Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India, and it is executed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Hyderabad.
C.P. R. Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC) has been identified as State Nodal Agency for the state of Tamil Nadu and has been anchoring all activities of Vikaspedia Tamil Portal since August 2014.
To strengthen the portal, a state level content mapping workshop will be held today (July 15) at 1, Eldams Road, Alwarpet. Prof. M. S. Swaminathan will inaugurate the workshop. 10.30 a.m. onwards.