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Notes With the initiation of the UGC, such a massive network programme has been started but as a large
amount of funds is involved in accelerating such a programme, the government should take an active
step forward and support such education based programmes, so that our people may also be able to
get at par with the other parts of the world.

11.4.2 NICNET (National Informatics Centre Network)

It is a national information retrieval network; National Informatics Centre established NICNET in 1977
and was commissioned in 1987. It is a satellite based computerized information system to provide
data communication between the districts, states, regional centres and ministries/departments at
central level and the central headquarters.

Objectives

NICNET was established to fulfill the following objectives:
• To design, develop and implement advance computer based methodology.
• To promote adoption of computer based management techniques.
• To generate specialized manpower in the field of information.
• To set up a computer network for connecting the various government departments/
ministries
• To establish information centres at state capitals and district information centres at all districts
in India with linkage to NIC at four centres.

11.4.3 INDONET

The ITES (formerly INDONET) was engineered and commissioned as India’s first data network in
1986 by the CMC Limited for the computer user community in India. The ITES offers different services
integrated in a single delivery mechanism to end-users. It has been used for a number of well-known
projects dealing with education, examinations, libraries and electoral cards. It is a powerful Internet
service provider focused on providing business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce solutions, specifically
in the area of electronic data interchange (EDI).

11.4.4 Education and Research Network (ERNET)

(http://www.ernet.in)
ERNET was initiated in 1986 by the Department of Electronics (DoE), with funding support from
the Government of India and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) with an objective
to create expertise R&D and education in the country in the area of networking and Internet in the
country. The project was initiated with eight premier institutions as participating agencies, i.e., NCST
(National Centre for Software Technology) Bombay, IISc (Indian Institute of Science), Bangalore, five
IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) at Delhi, Bombay, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras, and the
DoE, New Delhi.
ERNET has made a significant contribution to the emergence of networking in the country. It has built
up national capabilities in the area of networking, especially in protocol software engineering. It has not
only succeeded in building a large network that provides various facilities to the intellectual segment
of Indian society—the research and education community, it has over the years become a trendsetter
in the field of networking. The Govt. of India has committed itself to further strengthen the project

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