NDLI reaches out to students amid lockdown

Kolkata, May 7 () With educational institutionsshut due to the lockdown, the National Digital Library ofIndia (NDLI) has reached out to students with 3.5 croreacademic content to enable them to study from home, an NDLIspokesperson said on Thursday.

The NDLI is a project under the Ministry of HumanResource Development and is spearheaded by the IIT Kharagpur.

The content can be accessed on 'Corona Outbreak: Studyfrom Home' section in the NDLI's mobile application and itsonline portal www.ndl.gov.in, the spokesperson said.

Of the 3.5 crore academic content, the Union HRDMinistry has given people free access to 78 lakh content afterthe imposition of the lockdown while they need to registerthemselves to get complete access to the remaining content,she said.

The digital content is in the form of e-books,audiobooks, lecture materials, thesis, reports, articles,journals, question papers and their solutions, simulationtools and video lectures in engineering, science, management,humanities and law streams, the spokesperson said.

Also, an updated and consolidated research resourcerepository on COVID-19 has been made available to thestudents, she said.

It is also urging faculty members of other institutesto share new content to the NDLI's repository for the benefitof the students, the project's principal investigator andformer IIT Kharagpur director Professor P P Chakrabarti said.

He said the initiative has received a positiveresponse, leading to the addition of a large quantity of newcontent to the NDLI's repository. SUSACD ACD