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India Development Gateway India Development Gateway, popularly known as InDG, is a country-wide initiative of Department of Information Technology, Government of India, in the domain of rural and social development, to meet knowledge needs of and provide knowledge-based IT enabled services to the rural communities and their first level service providers in India.


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The Gateway, initiated in 2006, is developed as a single-window access to information and services, with specific objective of reaching the ‘un-reached’ rural communities of India, especially women and poor. It catalyses the use of ICT tools for knowledge sharing, leading to development. It hopes to bridge the gap between the rural communities and development, by providing links to government, civil society groups / NGOs and private institutions. The ultimate goal is to create a service-oriented, people-friendly and demystified Information Technology (ICT) for Development in service of rural communities through country-wide collaborations. InDG is presently supported by the Department of Information Technology, Government of India and implemented by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Hyderabad. It is envisaged that it would transform itself into self-sustaining effort, over a period of time.

The multilingual portal (www.indg.in) developed as part of this initiiave, was launched officially by President of India, Smt Pratibha Devisingh Patil on 4 July 2008. As on date, InDG has been successful in designing, developing and deploying ICT-based knowledge, products and services in 10 languages (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, Kannada Malayalam and English) for rural communities.