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Pune, February 10, 2003
The Department of
Information Technology, Ministry of Communications &
Information Technology, Government of India has announced
the merger of Electronics Research & Development Centre,
India (ER&DCI),
National Centre for Software Technology (NCST)
and Centre for Electronics Design and Technology, India
(CEDTI),
Mohali with C-DAC.
The restructured
C-DAC will combine the strengths of the merging entities
to consolidate the focus on R & D. It is also expected
that the merger will offer economies of scale and avoid
duplication of work.
According to Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director, C-DAC,
' The merger will enable the restructured C-DAC to leverage on the expertise
of these societies and further focus and strengthen the
R & D efforts. The merged autonomous society is targeted
to emerge as a center of excellence of international repute
working in advanced information technologies.'
The areas of R
& D focus would include High Performance Computing
(HPC), Hardware & Embedded
systems, Information Security,
Digital/BroadBand & Wireless Communication, Networking,
IT Applications, Natural
Language Processing, Multilingual/Multimedia
Technologies, Knowledge Management & Software Engineering, Geomatics and Real
Time Systems & Software. 'Training
and Education will continue to remain an integral activity
of the merged society,' he added. The Society will integrate
its R & D, applications
development & training to deliver output at optimal
levels in this activity.
A National Cyberspace
Academy (NCA) is envisaged using a hybrid model of conventional
classroom training and modern elearning training to impact
high-end courses in the diverse areas of IT.
The merger of the
societies into C-DAC came into effect on December 16, 2002.
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