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PUBLIC DOMAIN RESOURCES

LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE OF INDIA (LII OF INDIA)
The Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) <www.liiofindia.org> is an international standard, free-access and non-
profit, comprehensive online collection of Indian legal information. The prototype is open for public use on 25 November
2010. It was formally launched in India in by National Law University Delhi at Vigyan Bhawan on 1st May 2010. The contents
of the LII of India prototype contains 154 databases including legislation (the India Code from 1836, some State legislation,
and commentary on legislation), Indian case law (over 300,000 cases in full text from the Supreme Court, most High
Courts, and tribunals), treaties (all India treaties to 1975, plus many subsequent bilateral treaties), law reform reports (from
the Law Commission), legal scholarship (six law journals to date, with scholarship repositories, books and judicial
scholarship still to be developed), cases concerning India in International Courts and Tribunals, and cases concerning India
from the pre-1873 English Reports.

OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA PLATFORM OF INDIA
Open Government Data Platform India is to facilitate the access to Government owned shareable data and
information in both human readable and machine readable forms in a proactive and periodically updatable
manner, within the framework of various related policies, Acts and Rules of Government of India, thereby
promoting wider accessibility and application of government owned data and unlocking the potential of data for
national development.
UGC E-RESOURCES
UGC provides access of 27 MOOCs in 8 Indian Languages, 135 PG Courses, 243 UG Courses and ePG Pathshala in 67
subjects from a single platform for higher education participants. Any students from any part of the world can available
benefit of use of these open education resources for their research and educational purposes.

Swayam Prabha DTH
CEC is the National Coordinator for Non-Technology undergraduate (UG) and post-graduate (PG) programs for
11 SWAYAM Prabha DTH Channels that use (2) GSAT-15 transponders to telecast high quality educational
programmes round the clock. Each channel telecasts 8 hours of fresh programmes every day which are repeated
3 times a day, allowing learners to view them at their convenience. The channels are free-to-air and can be
viewed on DD Free dish and DishTV. CEC runs an exclusive 24x7 CEC-UGC Higher Education DTH channel -
Vyas. Round-the-clock transmission is based on curriculum as well as enrichment programmes where 4 hrs live
lectures and 8 hrs of recorded content is broadcast Monday to Friday, and 12 hrs of recorded content is
broadcast on Saturday and Sunday. The educational content is broadcast on various subjects to supplement
classroom teaching. The channel is also webcast on CEC’s website and www.webcast.gov.in web portal of
Government of India. Recently, Vyas Channel has also been made part of SWAYAM Prabha DTH Channels
bouquet.
UGC MOOCs: A VERTICAL OF SWAYAM
SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of
Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources
to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto
remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.

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