India Creation National Tender

The objective of National Virtual Library of India NVLI is to facilitate creation of a comprehensive database on digital resources of India on information about India in an open access environment. Salient features of NVLI are -Federated searching through multilingual user interfaces.Virtual learning environmentE-Governance platform facilitating data analyticsMultilingual searching and retrieval on ontologythesaurus based.The project of creation of National Virtual Library of India costing Rs.72.34 crore had been entrusted to IIT Bombay in collaboration with C-DAC Pune and IGNOU Delhi. An amount of Rs.71.78 crore has been released by Government to IIT Bombay till date.The core software application and cloud infrastructure for NVLI has been developed. Soft launch of NVLI has been done on 15th February 2018. Harvesting of Metadata and its curation is on.As per the Memorandum of Understanding MoU signed between National Mission on Libraries and IIT Bombay on 26.04.2016 the time frame for completion of the project by IIT Bombay is 3 years. The Ministry of Culture continuously monitors the progress of the NVLI project.