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From Director's Desk

It is a matter of pride and privilege that none other than the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)

recognized the contributions made by the INFLIBNET Centre towards Digital India. Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the
then President of India, presented Citations and Mementos Director & Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Scientist C (CS) for
their commendable contributions to digital initiative for higher education during the National Convention on
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Digital Initiative organized by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India on 9 July, 2017
at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. In addition, NDLTD Leadership Award for the year 2017 for Shodhganga Scheme
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of the INFLIBNET Centre was presented to Director and Mr. Manoj Kumar, Scientist D (CS) during the 20
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International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations held in Washington DC, USA from 7 August to
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9 August, 2017. Both Director and Mr. Manoj Kumar attended the conference and received the NDLTD
Leadership Award from Dr. Edward Fox, the Founder of Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

(NDLTD), a world-wide ETD initiative. In addition, Director also received the Librarian's Choice Award for Life-
time Achievement for the year 2017, instituted by Royal Society of Chemistry, in recognition of individual
contribution towards Library and Information Science community of India. We are indeed very thankful to
MHRD, Government of India and to NDLTD Award Committee for recognizing our contributions to the higher

education community in the country. These are some of the major recognition that the Centre received from
national and international authorities, which, do not belong to this quarter, however, I find it too tempting to wait
for the next issue of newsletter which is due only in October, 2017. The central spread of the newsletter carry
corresponding photographs from the three events.

During the period under report, the National Accreditation and Assessment Centre (NAAC) sought assistance and
help of the Centre in the process of developing their new accreditation and assessment framework. Director of the
Centre, Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Mr. Hitesh Solanki and Mr. Dharmesh Shah attended a series of meetings organized
by NAAC to assist the process of evolving the new framework and its automation. The assistance and help of the
Centre was also sought by the MHRD and AICTE for projects entitled Smart India Hackathon 2017 Portal, Eak

Bharat Shresth Bharat, AICTE Start-up, etc.The Centre continued to provide its help, assistance and services to the
UGC for developing UGC Portal for Central Universities in India for automation of administrative and financial
communications.

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