NICNET Based Agricultural Marketing Information ... - Agmarknet

National Informatics Centre Project Implementation Guidelines – AGMARKNETB. IT Infrastructure and Training SupportNecessary hardware along with software tools will be provided to State Marketing Boards aswell as NIC Co-ordinators to facilitate the content preparation and development work. The Statenodal officers will also be provided training for preparing contents .C. Site Hosting and Periodic UpdationAll the regional portals will be maintained in separate directories in the AGMARKNET portal.Each State will be allotted a password and permitted to access respective information only.Once the regional directories are updated over AGMARKNET, the further requirements forupdation of static contents will be minimal. The nodal officer of the Marketing Board canprepare the contents and send through e-mail to respective NIC state Co-ordinator for updation.The rights for updation can be granted to nodal officer of Board also. However, initially theperiodic updations may be carried out jointly from NIC State unit. [ The Boards have dial-upconnectivity through NIC State Units but Remote publishing over dial-up may not feasible .Hence the suggestion for publishing through NIC State unit]Further, once the sub portals are launched, any further additions to national AGMARKNET siteor directories of AGMARK software will be alerted to all the States for translation and up-dationof respective regional sub portals.The addresses for sub portals could be (say for Punjab) agmarknet.nic.in/punjab orpunjab.agmarknet.nic.inD. Fonts SelectionBased on discussions with C-DAC, following fonts have been identified to be appropriate forpreparing the contents. The same are recommended on C-DAC web site also. The NIC-State coordinatorsmay also satisfy themselves before taking up content development workBengali - BNW-TTDurgaOriya - ORW-TTSaralaAssamese - ASW-TTDurgaTamil - TAM-TTValluvarMalayalam - MLW-TTKarthikaPunjabi - PNW-TTAmarTelgu - TLW-TTHemalathaGujarati - GJW-TTAvantikaKannada - KNW-TTNandiHindi - DVW-TTSurekhMarathi - DVW-TTSurekhOther NE states including Sikkim may maintain information in English or using similar fonts .NIC-AGRID-AGMARKNET-PIG-001 Version 1.2 Release: 20/07/2004 Page 40 of 40