UGC-Infonet is an ambitious programme of UGC to interlink all the Universities in the country with state-of-art technology . The Network is being switched to BSNL backbone w.e.f 1st April 2010 and renamed as UGC Infonet 2.0. ON the new scheme 10 Mbps(1:1) Leased line is being established in 180 plus universities preferably by using Fiber to provide Internet Services. INFLIBNET is responsible for executing and monitoring the entire project. The UGC-INFONET mainly provides Internet bandwidth, a pre-requisite for delivery of scholary content subscribed through the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium.The scheme has now been extended to 200 Universities and 6 Inter-University Centres of the UGC.
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Status of 182 Universities as on 13th August 2010
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| NKN Connected Universities* |
10 |