National Digital Library of India


The National Digital library of India is a project under Ministry of Human Resource Development, The Government of India. The objective is to collect and collate metadata and provide full text index from several national and international digital libraries, as well as other relevant sources. It is a digital repository containing textbooks, articles, videos, audio books, lectures, simulations, fiction and all other kinds of learning media. The NDLI provides free of cost access to many books in the Indian languages and English.

History and Timeline

The Library was launched in pilot form in May 2016.
The Library was dedicated to the nation on June 19, 2018, by union human resource minister Prakash Javadekar.
As of April 2019, NDLI hosts 4,58,25,715+ items in its repository, with over 1,50,000 volumes in English.

Languages

The scanning of Indian language books has created an opportunity for developing Indian language optical character recognition software. Books in Urdu and Persian are also available at the NDLI. Examples include "Aligarh kee taaleemi tehreek" by Khwaja Ghulamus Sayyedain and Makateeb-e-Sanai by Professor Nazir Ahmad.

Access and restrictions

User registration is open to users from around the world. However, contents from some popular sources are only accessible to registered users. Some of these registration-only works are from sources such as:
Access can also be had via mobile app, available for Android at Google Play.

Management

The Library is managed by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur