National Digital Library of India

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National Digital Library of India (NDLI)

Type of site	Education
Available in	12 Search Languages languages
Headquarters	IIT Kharagpur, WB, India, Kharagpur , India
Country of origin	India
Key people	Dr. B. Sutradhar, Jt. PI of NDLI, Librarian of Central Library, IIT Kharagpur
Employees	>92 (January 2023)
URL	www.ndl.gov.in
Commercial	No
Registration	Free
Users	87,09,389+ (July 2024)
Current status	Active
Content license	CC0

The National Digital Library of India is a virtual repository of learning resources, providing services including textbooks, articles, videos, audiobooks, lectures, simulations, fiction, and other kinds of learning media for the learners/user community. It is a project managed by the Ministry of Education, Government of India through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). The objective of the project is to collect and collate metadata and provide full text index from several national and international digital libraries, as well as other relevant sources. The NDLI provides free of cost access to many books and designed to hold content of any languages and provides search support for the 12 most widely used Indian languages. It is developed, operated and maintained by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.^[1]

NDLI offers access to educational materials across various disciplines and academic levels. It aggregates content from numerous national and international sources, including books, articles, theses, audio-video lectures, and OERs. The platform supports multiple languages, and ensures resources are available to those who wish to access them. Built using open architecture, open-source software & open metadata, NDLI currently provides access to more than 100 million items, in 39 Indian languages, out of 423 languages in total.^{[citation needed]}