Information Technology in Jamia Millia Islamia (2000-2004)

Abstract

Computerization in Jamia started with the establishment of a Computer Centre in 1984 with 286 processor based Minicomputer and some terminals. The system became obsolete by 1990 and it was strongly felt to fill up this vacuum by acquiring a better computing facility. In 1995-96, the University Grants Commission upgraded the Computer Centre to level-B and provided some technical staff as well as a grant for establishing local area network. Thus a network with 10 mbps optical fiber backbone and about 50 nodes was established connecting some of the departments and offices of the University through a fiber network switch. At the same time, the ERNET India, provided e-mail facility to the University. Three Alpha servers were also acquired by the Centre and a computer lab was developed for the use of faculty members and research scholars for computational work as well as for e-mail purposes. In 1996, the Department of Physics developed its own computer lab and Dr. Zakir Husain Library also took steps to computerize its functioning using the LIBSYS software. Internet facility in Jamia, started with the setting up a 64 kbps IPA VSAT facility provided by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) which is now being upgraded to 128 kbps DVB-VSAT.