World`s study material just a few clicks away - Kalpana Pathak, Business Standard

Around 800,000 students from 1,000 colleges and educational institutions in India — including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — will be able to connect with the world's best online study material, research laboratories and faculty members by March 2008. This high-bandwidth networking will be made possible by the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) which has started work on the first leg of setting up its proposed National Knowledge Network, to connect all universities, libraries and laboratories, hospitals and agricultural institutions – enabling them to share data and resources across the country. The work which will be carried out in phases, will link 1,000 out of 7,000 colleges in the first phase. The technical aspect of the first phase is being handled by a team of professors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

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