CDAC's Mercury solution will help the physicians to consolidate the patient's electro-medical records and also provide tele-consultation tools with integrated video-conferencing facilities, he said. Elaborating on the importance of language software in the Indian scenario, he said Web Lila, which is the Web version of Lila Hindi, would facilitate learning of the language on the Internet with audio and video streaming on broadband and interactive online classrooms.

C-DAC's Sanskrit authorising tool - Vysa would assist in content, information processing and references, Mr Arora said. "The digital content database of the four Vedas with individual application programme, lexicons, word analysis and quotations will be a major source of information to the Sanskrit and Vedic scholars of the country and abroad," he said. Earlier speaking on the occasion, Vinay Kohli, secretary, ministry of information and technology (MIT) said with only five per cent of the Indian population speaking English, C-DAC's Web Lila, Gist and ileap would be able to serve a huge demand from the language population. Commenting on the reports of slowdown in the it spending, Mr Kohli said the challenge lay in reversing the adverse trend and asked C-DAC to grow beyond an establishment structure.

He said as India was fast approaching towards a convergence era, research organisations like C-DAC should be positioned to take advantage of the merger of advanced technologies and market their capabilitiesadequately to be viable commercially. VS Ramamurthy, secretary, department of science and technology, government of India said C-DAC should be able to sell its products in the global marketplace. Recently, C-DAC sold the third in the series of its supercomputers Param 10000 to Russia.