Hon’ble President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind has launched the web portal http://gandhi.gov.in for commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of the Father of our Nation, Mahatma Gandhi on 18th September, 2018 at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Hon’ble Minister of State for Culture (Independent Charge) and Environment, Forest & Climate Change and Shri Arun Goel, IAS, Secretary (Ministry of Culture) were also present on the occasion. During the event, the commemoration logo was also released by the Hon’ble President, along with the Minister.
Salient features of the new web portal include: ••To identify visitors from different geographical areas and provide them with personalized information. ••To enable organisations & individuals to join celebration and submit their Karyanjali through an easy uploading process. ••To disseminate information related to Gandhian literature, philosophy, audios, videos, rare photos etc., available on the portal.
The web portal is participatory in nature and all the participating organisations will be able to upload their activities regarding commemoration. It also has a unique feature Gandhipedia which will be a repository of Gandhian knowledge and continue to grow with time.
The two year-long celebrations from 2nd October, 2018 to 2nd October, 2020 will be held all over the country and across the globe to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. All Ministries/ Departments of the Government of India, States and Union Territories have initiated actions pertaining to their respective Ministries/ Departments. Necessary action plans are being uploaded at the web portal.
National Informatics Centre has provided technical support, consultancy, guidance and assistance in conceptualising, designing and development of this web portal which includes cloud management. This citizen centric web portal has been developed using open source technologies which include Linux Redhat 7.3, Apache Tomcat 9.0, Database Postgre SQL-10.0, Java, Jsp, HTML, Javascript, jQuery, Angular5, Bootstrap and CSS.