Fwd: [SamshodhanaTech] MSP has been recognised by Cultural Ministry, Govt of India

[Guest guest]

Greetings,

 

We are very thankful to all the people who have helped

directly, indirectly, from India and US. I have a

great news to share with you, recently, we had some

very special guests to our new research centre called

" Centre for Digital Manuscripts " in Joint Secretary,

Dept of Culture, New Delhi, Sri Jayakumar and Dr.

Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Director, National Mission for

Manuscripts. After their visit, they have now

recognised our efforts and are involving us in the

prestigious Programme of Creating the biggest Digital

Manuscripts Library in the world (of something about

5-10 million mss). The hallmark of this has been the

tool called " VYASA " (named after Vedavyasa). Without

the help some people who supported us when we started

I am sure our efforts of more than 4.5 years would

have gone waste. I take pleasure on behalf of MSP to

acknowledge the help of people involved

 

Shri Vinay Joshi - Person who sponsored the first

computer to MSP (one of the founders) on which the

Vyasa has been mostly developed (about 60 %) Still

today this machine is present here and is named as

Vyasa. He has helped us whenever there has been

financial crisis and never let us down.

 

Shri Janardhan - Backbone of MSP all these years, has

managed to keep this baby alive when it needed most.

He has been the nurse, mother and kudos to his fund

raising and channelising work that made us to sustain

till today.

 

Smt Anuradha & Shri B.V.Jagadeesh - Never saw the

results or when we can deliver the same had been very

generous to sponsor computers when we needed the most

and helped MSP to setup the Digital Lab.

 

Shri Gopalaswami IAS, - Secretary, Ministry of Home

affairs, New Delhi. This gentleman, is a very simple,

down to earth bureaucrat. His visit to MSP in 2001

brought lot of ideas, credability to the organization.

 

Shri CS Kedar IAS, - Secretary, Dept of Kannada and

Culture, Govt. of KArnataka. A pushy officer, has

motivated us to deliver the best and has been

instrumental in getting the due recognition for having

restored their Century old Gazetteer volumes using

vyasa. He has included us in the Karnataka State

Committee for National Mission for Mss.

 

Last but never the least..

Smt. Tejaswini and Shri Ananthkumar (Honorable

Minister for Urban development, Govt. of India). This

couple who have passion for Indian heritage and

culture, saw our interest and I do not have words to

praise these two. They have helped in each and every

step from past two and half years. Especially, at MSP,

there is no big occassion without the participation of

the honourable minister. He sponsored computers, large

format scanner, large format printer which led to

establishment of this Centre for Digital Mss. Smt.

Tejaswini is an advisor to MSP, has been instrumental

to take this organisation to get acquainted with the

officials in Delhi in 2001. Since then we have never

looked back.

 

We are also greatly indebted to Prof. Prahladacharya,

VC, RSVP, Tirupati who has helped us to lead this

organization and get its due credentials.

 

Recently, we also roped in Dr. NJ Rao, Chairman,

Management studies dept. IISc as head of CDM, His

presence in this organisation made a big difference in

planning and organising. His approach is intricate and

meticulous. We have long way to go, I am sure we would

be learning a lot from him. Dr. AG Ramakrishnan, my

professor at IISc, has been instrumental in helping

with the technology for Kannada OCR, which we will be

releasing in couple of months as a free tool to all

kannadigas across the world to convert their printed

books to searchable text.

 

Though we dreamt something big, without the mercy and

help from GOD through all the people directly,

indirectly we are sure that we would haven't reach

this state, though there are long way to go still.

 

Please check out the attachment. This is the press

cutting from TOI published at various places across

India and is issued by Culture Ministry.

 

We hope that people who have helped us most be

satisfied.

 

Thanks and have a great day,

 

Ramachandra.B

 

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hello,

 

good news for all of them who are associated with MSP, this

attachment consists of a news paper cutout which was published in

" Times of India " New Delhi edition on 27th may.

 

we are being recognized by " Cultural Ministry " , Govt of India for

making difference in preserving and digitizing Manuscripts, we are

very thankful to Director and secretory of National Mission for

Manuscripts NMM)with who's kind help all this was possible

 

we hope to continue these kind of record breaking achievements

 

thanking you

 

for MSP

Ramachandra

 

 

 

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