 | 1999 - April, Awarded by Shri Nitish Kumar, Hon'ble Minister for Railways, Government of
India. |
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| 1998 - Three more languages added to the initial two. |
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| Presentation made to Shri Manohar Joshi, the then Hon'ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra |
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Mr. Venkatesh Hariharan, Mr. Hemant Adarkar, Mr. Harsh Kumar with Shri
Manohar Joshi, |
| 1997 - December; Free distribution from a stall in Pragati Maidan at IT India/Comdex
Exhibition. |
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| Views expressed by the MAIT and NASSCOM presidents at that time were:
 | "The BharatBhasha project is very significant as it will make computers accessible
to the other 855 million Indians who speak vernacular languages." said Mr. Manu
Parpia, President of MAIT. |
| "The BharatBhasha project will enable the infotech culture to percolate down to the
grassroots level where there is tremendous interest in computers." said Mr. K Ramani,
President of NASSCOM. |
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Mr. S. Ghosh, Secretary, Department of Electronics,
Government of India, Mr. Manu Parpia, President of MAIT and Mr. K Ramani, President of
NASSCOM. |
| 1997 - July: Presented the system at a Workshop organized by Digital
Computing at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.
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| 1997 - March: The main files were put on the INTERNET for easy access and wider
distribution. |
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