After the successful development and implementation of a low-cost indigenous PC-based Teletext Broadcast System for the Indian Railways, Indian Airlines and Lok Sabha and Doordarshan, the Tele-informatics Development and Promotion Programme of NIC has moved on to new areas of application. Its achievements during 1994-95 include:
- Designing the Current Road Accident Information System for the Delhi Police and its subsequent incorporation in the Teletext Services on Doordarshan, on an experimental basis.
- Development and fabrication of a low-cost satellite teletext receiver in collaboration with M/s ET&T. Teletext receivers were installed and made operational at Bombay, Madras and Hyderabad.
- Implementation of a NICNET-based 1994 Assembly Election Results System for Doordarshan Centres at Delhi, Bombay and Hyderabad, and for the Press Information Bureau (PIB).
- Setting up of a Local Area Network (LAN) in the Doordarshan newsroom to facilitate collection of news agency input and speeding up script preparation.
- Development of a closed-circuit Teletext Display System for seat allotment under the All India Quota in medical colleges, for the Directorate of General Health Services.
- Successful demonstration of NIC Satellite Data Broadcast Facility using Receive Only VSAT at INFOCOM-94, Bombay.
NIC plans to extend teletext facilities to information providers and vendors. The same online information will be made available at the NIC server through data links, enabling access of the online teletext information using VSAT and NICNET connectivity, by end-Users.