New Delhi: The government on Thursday sought proposals from agencies to redesign the Prime Minister’s official website which will be available in six UN languages and 22 scheduled Indian languages, reported PTI.
The six UN languages are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
The government is pondering over entrusting a qualified and experienced agency having experience in the field of design, development and maintenance of websites, according to a request for proposal (RFP) floated by National e-Governance Division (NeGD).
“…the agency would be required to prepare a detailed software requirement specification, provide end-to-end managed service for development and maintenance of the website and localise the PM India portal into 22 official Indian languages and six official United Nations languages,” the RFP document said.
The 22 Indian languages will include Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
“The static as well as the dynamic content on the portal must be translated and transliterated. The content will be provided to the selected agency in the word format/searchable PDF in English or Hindi,” the document said.
The other feature of the website will include real-time integration with popular social media platforms, including the social media platforms integrated with the existing website.
The RFP says that the last day to submit proposals as August 7 and the last date for submission of queries will be July 30.
