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A Project Proposal

Development of Pronunciation Lexicon and Based on Experimental Study of Phonetics and Phonemics of Indian

Languages

Submitted to

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Ministry of Communication and Information Technology

Govt. of India, New Delhi

By

Consortium Consisting of

C-DAC, Kolkata (Overall Coordination & Leadership) KIIT , Gurgaon IIT - Guwahati TIFR Mumbai Gauhati University Manipur University

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MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFORMA FOR SEEKING FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR R&D

PROJECTS

SUMMARY SHEET

1. Title of Project: Development Of Pronunciation Lexicon and Based on Experimental Study of Phonetics And Phonemics of Indian Languages.

Languages: Assamese, Manipuri, Bodo, Punjabi and Marathi

2. Organizations

(a) Consortium Composed of: 1) C-DAC, Kolkata (Overall Coordination) 2) KIIT , Gurgaon 3) IIT Guwahati 4) TIFR Mumbai 5) Gauhati University 6) Manipur University

(b) Technical Advisers: 1) Prof Dr. SS Agrawal, Director KIIT group of Institution. 2) Prof A.K. Datta, President of BOM & Ex Prof. and HOD , ISI-Kolkata

3. Investigators:

(1) C-DAC, Kolkata Chief Investigator Mr. Arup Saha Senior Engineer C-DAC, Kolkata. arup.saha@cdac.in

Co Investigator:

(i)Mr. Milton S Bepari Senior Engineer C-DAC, Kolkata

(ii)Ms. Tulika Basu Project Assistant II C-DAC, Kolkata

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(iii)Mr. Rajib Roy Project Engineer C-DAC, Kolkata

(2) KIIT Gurgaon (i) Prof. S.S. Agrawal (ii) Ms. Shweta Bansal

(3) IIT -Guwahati Dr. Pradip Kr Das Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science,

(4) TIFR Mumbai Dr. Nandini Bondale, Scientist-F

(5) Gauhati University Prof. Pranhari Talukdar USIC, Guahati University

(6) Manipur University

Principal Investigator: Prof. Madhubala Language Laboratory School of Humanities Manipur University

Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Sarbajit Singh

Sr. Lecturer

4. Nature of Project : Research on Technology Development, and Standardization

5. Objective of the Project:

Creation of the Pronunciation Lexicon (PLS) of around 3,00,000 words for each of the 5 Indian Languages namely Assamese , Manipuri, Bodo, Punjabi and Marathi as per W3C specification.

Detailed experimental and analytical study including acoustic of phonemes along with their allophonic variations for the above 5 Indian Languages.

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To formulate Internationalization requirements along with reference data set for inclusion in speech related standards to achieve the goal of Voice Browser in Indian Languages.

6. Brief outline of the project with specific technology fall-outs:

The PLS (Pronunciation Lexicon) specification is about how to pronounce words and phrases and how to deal with the variability of pronunciations by country, region, person, etc. The Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) is a W3C Recommendation, which is designed to enable interoperable specification of pronunciation information for both speech recognition and speech synthesis engines within voice browsing applications. The Speech Synthesis Markup Language specification (SSML) is a W3C markup language specification that defines directives in the form of XML tags that can be used along with Text-to-Speech synthesis systems (TTS) to control different speech parameters (e.g. pronunciation, prosody) and also provide additional information such as language and metadata for enhancing the quality of synthetic speech output in voice based applications. Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) is the preferred markup for grammar syntax used in speech recognition. The W3C PLS specification thus demands development of Pronunciation Lexicon for Indian Languages. The PLS can be created with the help of detailed experimental study of phonetic and acoustic analysis pertaining to specificities of Indian Languages. Such experimental study leads to standardization of Phonemic inventory and modeling for acoustic and phonetic features for each of Indic Languages; a crucial and essential requirement for IPA and W3C PLS, SSML and SGRS standards.

7. Expected outcome in physical terms (As applicable): The outcome of the project will be:

Creation of the Pronunciation Lexicon (PLS) of around 300,000 words for 5 Indian Languages Assamese, Manipuri, Bodo, Punjabi and Marathi as per W3C specification.

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Standardization of Phonemic Inventory along with experimental data with reference to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

Complete representation of phonemes and their allophonic variations along with their acoustics for 5 Indian Languages Assamese, Manipuri, Bodo, Punjabi and Marathi.

Internationalization requirements along with experimental data for W3C Voice standards such as SSML, SGRS, VXML and HTML 5.0 standards.

8. Expected outcome in financial terms (as applicable). Not applicable

9. Production Agency with which link up is established /proposed: International Phonetic Association (IPA) and W3C would be associated.

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Year-wise break-up of physical achievements with specific intermediate milestones (in terms of aims and objectives)

0-6 Months 6-12 Months 12-18 Months 18-24 Months

(i) Acquisition of EPG, EGG, NASOMETER, and VIDEO CAMERA. (ii) Setting up of Lab.

Collection of phonetic reader, publication and palatogram (if available) for the above said Languages.

Preparation of recording materials for Acoustic and Articulatory Verification.

Development of IDE for creation of PLS

Selection of informants for recording and listening test

Audio recording for Acoustic Verification

Training of Manpower.

Preparation of palates for informants

Workshop.

Tagging of the recordings

Acoustic analysis.

Recording on EPG, EGG, Nasometer and Video Camera.

Analysis of observations of instrumental outputs.

Validation Meeting.

Creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C

Publication of PLS.

Conference

Figure 1: PERT chart for various milestones to be achieved.

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The task involving the creation of recording material and creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C will be carried out by the associated institutes under the supervision of C-DAC Kolkata and include the following:

0-6 Months Collection of phonetic reader, publication and palatogram for the above said five

languages. Preparation of recording materials for acoustic and articulatory verification.

1. All possible combination of CVC and VCV for articulatory study. 2. Around 250 sentences for acoustic study. 3. Around 600 words for diphthong and glide study.

Selection of informants for recording through listening test. Audio recording of selected text material for acoustic study (contd...).

1. For the study of manner of articulation of consonant, consonant taken in VCV (V Vowel & C Consonant) context is going to be recorded 3 times by 6 speakers.

2. Around 250 sentences will be recorded by at least 6 speakers.

6-12 months Tagging of the recordings at the phone level.

12-18 months Creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C (contd).

18-24 months Creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C.

2 The tasks involved in the development of IDE for creation of PLS and analysis of the results for all the languages will be carried out at C-DAC, Kolkata and include the following:

0-6 Months Acquisition of EPG, EGG, NASOMETER AND VIDEO CAMERA and setting of lab

which is going to be used by other centers. Development of IDE for creation of PLS. Training of Manpower for acoustic tagging (contd...). Preparation of palates for informants for each of the 5 languages.

6-12 months Recording on EPG, EGG and Nasometer (contd). Video-graphy (contd). Preparation of intermediate report. Acoustic analysis.

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12-18 months Analysis of observations of instrumental outputs. Validation Meeting.

18-24 months Publication of PLS. Conference.

13. Likely end user(s) As the PLS is going to provide the standard pronunciation of the lexicon, it will be

used by both the researcher and professional for the development of the speech related application.

14. Name of other Organizations jointly participating in the project: (i) C-DAC, Kolkata (ii) KIIT , Gurgaon (iii) IIT Guwahati (iv) TIFR Mumbai (v) Gauhati University (vi) Manipur University

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Total Budget (in lakhs of Rs) Outlay (2 years distributed across institutions) Serial No Heads Year - 1 Year - 2

1 Capital Equipment 25 0 2 Consumables 3.5 3.5 3 Manpower 70.76 70.76 4 Data Collection(EPG data Collection) 19 17 5 Travel 14 8.5 6 Contingencies 1 1 7 Consultancies and Evaluation 2.5 2.5 8 Workshop & Training 8 3 9 Coordination and Management 7 7

10 Over Head 18.89 16.9 Sub Total 169.65 130.16

Total 299.81

FE Component : nil

Signature of Chief Investigator: [Arup Saha] Designation: Senior Engineer C-DAC, Kolkata Date: 24-08-2010

Signature of Head of the Institution: [Col. A.K. Nath (Retd.)]

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DETAILS OF THE PROPOSAL PART I: BACKGROUND INFORMATION

1. Title of Project :. Development of Pronunciation Lexicon and based on experimental study of phonetics and phonemics of Indian Languages.

Languages: Assamese, Bodo, Manipuri, Marathi & Punjabi

1. Consortium Composed of - C-DAC, Kolkata (Overall Coordination) - IIT Guwahati - Manipur University - KIIT Gurgaon - TIFR, Mumbai - Gauhati University

3. Chief Investigator of the Consortuim Arup Saha, Senior Engineer, CDAC,Kolkata, arup.saha@cdac.in

4. Investigators:

1)C-DAC,Kolkata Principal Investigator: Arup Saha, Senior Engineer, C-DAC,Kolkata,

arup.saha@cdac.in

Co- Principal Investigators:

Mr. Milton S Bepari Senior Engineer C-DAC, Kolkata.

Ms. Tulika Basu Project Assisstant II CDAC,Kolkata,

Mr. Rajib Roy Project Engineer C-DAC, Kolkata.

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2)KIIT Gurgaon Prof. S.S. Agrawal Ms. Shweta Bansal

3)IIT -Guwahati Dr. Pradip Kr Das Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science,

4)TIFR Mumbai Dr. Nandini Bondale, Scientist-F

5)Gauhati University Prof. Pranhari Talukdar USIC , Guahati University

6)Manipur University (i)Potsangbam Madhubala

(ii)Principal Investigator: Dr. Sarbajit Singh Sr. Lecturer

5. Nature of Project : Research on Technology Development

6. Background Information: Man machine communication in speech mode involves the integration of all technologies needed for both speech input, as well as output, as per all the attributes demanded by the discipline of associated language. The success of development of such a complex technology as speech technology depends largely on the accuracy of the pronunciation lexicon of the language. This is because it represents the interface between speech analysis on the acoustic level and speech interpretation. For example in automatic speech recognition (ASR), the search module relies on phonetic transcriptions to select appropriate acoustic models against which to score the input utterance. Likewise, in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, phonemic transcriptions are required for the selection of the proper units from which to generate the desired waveform. The Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) is designed to enable interoperable specification of pronunciation information for both ASR and TTS engines within voice browsing applications. This technology has to be based on the current field status of pronunciation being used by the people of the dialect. It is to be noted that the available resources on acoustic and articulatory phonetics in the languages of north east are not adequate for technology development. This project aims at the development of the pronunciation lexicon of five Indian languages namely Assamese, Manipuri, Bodo, Marathi and Punjabi. For the proper representation of the lexicon in the PLS, a categorization of the phones and the allophones currently in use is needed and hence the articulatory experiment together with the acoustic experiment is necessary. The following diagram gives a methodology of creation of PLS

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Collection of phonetic reader, publication and palatogram (if available) for the Language

Preparation of recording materials for Acoustic and Articulatory verification

Selection of informants for recording.

Audio recording of selected text material.

Tagging of the recordings

Preparation of Palates for informants

1.Audio recording of the text materials with the help of EPG, Nasometer, EGG 2.Video recording for capturing lip movement

Analysis of the recorded data

Preparation of first Report for a Language

Valedictory meeting and intermediate report generation

Acoustic analysis of the recorded data.

Exploration of phonemes

Collection of

Lexicon

Creation of pronunciation lexicon as per W3C

Publication of PLS in XML format.

Development of IDE for creation of PLS

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Capability of the consortium for the current task:

(1) Arup Saha (Chief Investigator), C-DAC, Kolkata

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE More than seven years of experience in speech processing and technology development in Indian language. Around 20 publications are made in the field of Speech Processing. A few of the noteworthy developments and achievements are:

Speech corpora for 3 East Indian languages Epoch Synchronous Non Over Lapp Add (ESNOLA) method based Text to

speech synthesis system for Bangla Manner based lexically driven speech recognition model for recognition of

Bangla speech.

(Co- Investigator)

Tulika Basu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE More than seven years of experience in speech processing and technology development in Indian language. Around 14 publications are made in the field of Speech Processing. A few of the noteworthy publications are:

1.Tulika Basu, Arup Saha, Qualitative And Quantitative Classification Of Bangla Vowel, Oriental COCOSDA, 2011 at National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. 2. Anal H Warsi, Tulika Basu, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Fujisaki, Prosodic Comparison Of Declarative And Interrogative Utterances in Standard Colloquial Bangla Oriental COCOSDA, 2011 at National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. 3. Arup Saha, Tulika Basu, Anal H Warsi, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Fujisaki, Subjective Evaluation of Joint Modeling of Pause Insertion and F0 Contour Generation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis of Bangla, Oriental COCOSDA, 2011 at National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

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Rajib Roy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE More than seven years of experience in speech processing and technology development in Indian language. Around 14 publications are made in the field of Speech Processing. A few of the noteworthy developments and achievements are:

1. Soma Khan, Rajib Roy, CREATION OF ACOUSTIC SIGNAL DICTIONARY FOR ESNOLA BASED CONCATENATED BANGLA AND NEPALI TTS SYSTEM, Oriental COCOSDA 2011, Hsinchu, Taiwan 2. Rajib Roy, Tulika Basu, Joyanta Basu, Arup Saha, Study of Nucleus Vowel Duration and its Role in Prosody of Bangla, Oriental COCOSDA-2007, pp. 181-184, Hanoi, Vietnam. 3. Biman Ghosh, Rajib Roy, Tulika Basu and Arup Saha, Study of Syllable and Pause Duration in Relation to Speech Synthesis, FRSM-2007, pp. 304-305, AIISH, Mysore.

(2) KIIT Gurgaon (i) Prof. S.S. Agrawal (ii) Ms. Shweta Bansal

(3) IIT -Guwahati Dr. Pradip Kr Das Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science,

(4) TIFR Mumbai Dr. Nandini Bondale, Scientist-F

(5) Gauhati University Prof. Pranhari Talukdar USIC , Guahati University

(6) Manipur University

Principal Investigator: Prof. Madhubala Language Laboratory School of Humanities Manipur University

Co-Principal Investigator:Dr. Sarbajit Singh Sr. Lecturer

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PART II: TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Aim and Scope of the Project: Creation of the Pronunciation Lexicon (PLS) for the said languages as per W3C

specification. Verification of place and manner of articulation of all phones and allophones in

regard to above.

C-DAC, Kolkata KIIT , Gurgaon IIT Guwahati TIFR Mumbai Gauhati University Manipur University

Detailed Technical Description for Distribution of Tasks among the Organizations:

(a) C-DAC, Kolkata Acquisition of equipment and setting up of lab which will be used by other

participating institute. Development of IDE for creation of PLS. Training of Manpower for acoustic tagging. Preparation of palates for informants for each of the language. Recording on EPG, EGG and Nasometer. Video Recording of lip movement. Analysis of the palatograph. Preparation of intermediate report. Publication of PLS.

(b) IIT-Guwahati Collection of phonetic reader, publication and palatogram (if available) for the

Assamese Language. Selection of informants for recording and listening test. Preparation of the recording materials for acoustic and articulatory analysis of

phoneme. 1. All possible combination of CVC and VCV for articulatory study. 2. Around 250 sentences for acoustic study. 3. Around 600 words for diphthong and glide.

Audio recording of selected text material. 1. For the study of manner of articulation of consonant, consonant taken in VCV

(V Vowel & C Consonant) context is going to be recorded 3 times by 6 speakers.

2. Around 250 sentences will be recorded by at least 6 speakers.

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3. Rest of the recording list. Tagging of the recordings Acoustic analysis. Creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C

(c) Gauhati University Collection of phonetic reader, publication and palatogram (if available) for the

Bodo Language. Selection of informants for recording and listening test. Preparation of recording materials for acoustic and articulatory analysis of phoneme.

1. All possible combination of CVC and VCV for articulatory study. 2. Around 250 sentences for acoustic study. 3. Around 600 words for diphthong and glide study.

Audio recording of selected text material. 1. For the study of manner of articulation of consonant, consonant taken in VCV

(V Vowel & C Consonant) context is going to be recorded 3 times by 6 speakers.

2. Around 250 sentences will be recorded by at least 6 speakers. 3. Rest of the recording list.

Tagging of the recordings Acoustic analysis. Creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C

(d) Manipur University Collection of phonetic reader, publication and palatogram (if available) for the

Manipuri Language. Selection of informants for recording and listening test. Preparation of recording materials for acoustic and articulatory analysis of phoneme.

1. All possible combination of CVC and VCV for articulatory study. 2. Around 250 sentences for acoustic study. 3. Around 600 words for diphthong and glide study.

Audio recording of selected text material. 1. For the study of manner of articulation of consonant, consonant taken in VCV

(V Vowel & C Consonant) context is going to be recorded 3 times by 6 speakers.

2. Around 250 sentences will be recorded by at least 6 speakers. 3. Rest of the recording list.

Tagging of the recordings Acoustic analysis. Creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C.

(e) KIIT, Gurgaon Collection of phonetic reader, publication and palatogram (if available) for the

Punjabi Language. Selection of informants for recording and listening test.

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Preparation of recording materials for acoustic and articulatory analysis of phoneme. 1. All possible combination of CVC and VCV for articulatory study. 2. Around 250 sentences for acoustic study. 3. Around 600 words for diphthong and glide study selection of informants.

Audio recording of selected text material. 1. For the study of manner of articulation of consonant, consonant taken in VCV

(V Vowel & C Consonant) context is going to be recorded 3 times by 6 speakers.

2. Around 250 sentences will be recorded by at least 6 speakers. 3. Rest of the recording list.

Tagging of the recordings Acoustic analysis. Creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C

(f) TIFR, Mumbai Collection of phonetic reader, publication and palatogram (if available) for the

Marathi Language. Selection of informants for recording and listening test. Preparation of recording materials for acoustic and articulatory analysis of phoneme.

1. All possible combination of CVC and VCV for articulatory study. 2. Around 250 sentences for acoustic study. 3. Around 600 words for diphthong and glide study.

Audio recording of selected text material. 1. For the study of manner of articulation of consonant, consonant taken in VCV

(V Vowel & C Consonant) context is going to be recorded 3 times by 6 speakers.

2. Around 250 sentences will be recorded by at least 6 speakers. 3. Rest of the recording list.

Tagging of the recordings Acoustic analysis. Creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C.

Task wise Distribution of Man-Months

The task involving the creation of recording material, acoustics phonetic study and creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C will be carried out by the associated institutes under the supervision of C-DAC Kolkata and include the following:

0-6 Months Collection of phonetic reader, publication and palatogram (if available) for the above

said Languages. Selection of informants for recording and listening test.

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Preparation of recording materials for acoustic and articulatory verification of phoneme.

1. All possible combination of CVC and VCV for articulatory study. 2. Around 250 sentences for acoustic study. 3. Around 600 words for diphthong and glide study.

Selection of informants for recording and listening test. Audio recording of selected text material.(contd...)

6-12 months Acoustic analysis. Tagging of the recordings.

12-18 months Creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C (contd)

18-24 months Creation of the PLS as per the specification of W3C.

2 The tasks involved in the development of IDE for creation of PLS and analysis of the results for all the languages will be carried out at C-DAC, Kolkata and include the following:

0-6 Months Development of IDE for creation of PLS Acquisition of equipment and setting up of lab which will be used by other centers. Training of Manpower (contd...). Preparation of palates for informants for each of the 5 languages.

6-12 months Recording on EPG, EGG and Nasometer. Video graphy of the lip movement. Preparation of intermediate report.

12-18 months Analysis of observations of instrumental outputs. Validation Meeting.

18-24 months Publication of PLS. Conference

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Schedule of Workshops and Meetings

Regular workshops and meetings of all consortium members will be held every four months. C-DAC, Kolkata will host most of the workshops/meeting. Other members will also host a few workshops/meetings. The idea is to share the progress of each member group with the other members and to discuss and solve potential problems and difficulties in a timely manner. It is expected that all the staff involved in the project will participate in these meetings and workshops.

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PART-III: FINANCIAL DETAILS (Yearly breakup) Total Budget:

Table 2: Aggregate of all Institutions (Budgets in lakhs of Rupees) Serial No Heads Year - 1 Year - 2

1 Capital Equipment 25 0 2 Consumables 3.5 3.5 3 Manpower 70.76 70.76 4 Data Collection(EPG data Collection) 19 17 5 Travel 14 8.5 6 Contingencies 1 1 7 Consultancies and Evaluation 2.5 2.5 8 Workshop & Training 8 3 9 Coordination and Management 7 7

10 Over Head 18.89 16.9 Sub Total 169.65 130.16

Total 299.81

Table 3: Institute-wise breakup:C-DAC, Kolkata(Rupees in lakhs) Serial No Heads Year - 1 Year - 2

1 Capital Equipment 15 2 Consumables 1 1 3 Manpower 25.76 25.76 4 Data Collection(EPG data Collection) 4 2 5 Travel 4 3.5 6 Contingencies 1 1 7 Consultancies and Evaluation 2.5 2.5 8 Workshop & Training 3 3 9 Coordination and Management 2 2

10 Over Head 6.49 6 Sub Total 64.75 46.76

Total 111.51

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Table 4: Institute-wise breakup:IIT Guwahati (Rupees in lakhs)

Serial No Heads Year - 1 Year - 2 1 Capital Equipment 2 2 Consumables 0.5 0.5 3 Manpower 9 9 4 Data Collection 3 3 5 Travel 2 1 6 Workshop 1 7 Coordination and Management 1 1 8 Over Head 2.48 2.18

Sub Total 20.98 16.68 Total 37.66

Table 5: Institute-wise breakup: Gauhati University (Rupees in lakhs) Serial No Heads Year - 1 Year - 2

1 Capital Equipment 2 2 Consumables 0.5 0.5 3 Manpower 9 9 4 Data Collection 3 3 5 Travel 2 1 6 Workshop 1 7 Coordination and Management 1 1 8 Over Head 2.48 2.18

Sub Total 20.98 16.68 Total 37.66

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Table 6: Institute-wise breakup: Manipur University (Rupees in lakhs) Serial No Heads Year - 1 Year - 2

1 Capital Equipment 2 2 Consumables 0.5 0.5 3 Manpower 9 9 4 Data Collection 3 3 5 Travel 2 1 6 Workshop 1 7 Coordination and Management 1 1 8 Over Head 2.48 2.18

Sub Total 20.98 16.68 Total 37.66

Table 7: Institute-wise breakup: TIFR, Mumbai (Rupees in lakhs) Serial No Heads Year - 1 Year - 2

1 Capital Equipment 2 2 Consumables 0.5 0.5 3 Manpower 9 9 4 Data Collection 3 3 5 Travel 2 1 6 Workshop 1 7 Coordination and Management 1 1 8 Over Head 2.48 2.18

Sub Total 20.98 16.68 Total 37.66

Table 8: Institute-wise breakup: KIIT, Gurgaon (Rupees in lakhs) Serial No Heads Year - 1 Year - 2

1 Capital Equipment 2 2 Consumables 0.5 0.5 3 Manpower 9 9 4 Data Collection 3 3 5 Travel 2 1 6 Workshop 1 7 Coordination and Management 1 1 8 Over Head 2.48 2.18

Sub Total 20.98 16.68 Total 37.66

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Table 9: Summary of year-wise breakup across Institutes (Rupees in lakhs)

Sl. No. Name of Institution 1st Year 2nd Year Total

1 C-DAC, Kolkata 64.75 46.76 111.51

2 IIT Guwahati 20.98 16.68 37.66

3 Gauhati University 20.98 16.68 37.66

4 Manipur University 20.98 16.68 37.66

5 KIIT- Gurgaon 20.98 16.68 37.66

6 TIFR Mumbai 20.98 16.68 37.66

Total Budget for all Institutions 169.65 130.16

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Part IV Endorsement by the Head of the Institution

1. I have read the terms & conditions (including special terms & conditions for co- financing) governing the grant-in-aid and I agree to abide by them.

2. I certify that I have no objection to the submission of this research proposal for consideration by the Ministry of Information Technology

3. In case the project is approved, I undertake to make available facilities to carry it out, to arrange for the submission of periodic progress reports and other information that may be required by the Ministry of Information Technology and In general to ensure that the conditions attached to the award of such grant are fulfilled by my institution/organization.

4. I certify that in case present chief investigator is not available for any reason to continue work on this project, the following co-principal investigator will be available to carry it throughout to completion:

Sl.No. Name Designation 1. Milton S Bepari Senior Engineer, C-DAC,Kolkata

5. I certify that the facilities mentioned in the body of this report are available at my institution.

6. I certify that I shall ensure that accounts will be ept of the funds received and spent and made available on demand, as specified and required by the Ministry of Information Technology.

7. I certify that I am the competent authority, the virtue of the administrative and financial powers vested in me by to undertake the above stated commitments on behalf of my institution.

Col AK Nath (Retd.) (Executive Director, C-DAC, Kolkata)

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Annexure - VA

TERMS AND CONDITIONS GOVERNING GRANT-IN-AID

i) The grant is for the specific project as approved by DIT and shall be subject to the following conditions:

(a) The grant amount shall be spent for the project within the specified time, (b) Any portion of the grant which is not ultimately required for expenditure for the approved purposes shall be duly surrendered to DIT.

ii) The grantee institution shall maintain an audited record in the form of a register in the prescribed proforma for permanent, semi-permanent assets acquired solely or mainly out of DIT grant;

iii) The assets referred to in (ii) above will be property of DIT and should not, without prior sanction of DIT, be disposed off or encumbered or utilized for the purposes other than those for which the grant has been sanctioned. An undertaking shall be given by the grantee institution that they agree to be governed by these conditions;

iv) At the conclusion of the project, DIT will be free to sell or otherwise dispose of the assets which are the property of DIT and grantee institution shall render to DIT the necessary support for facilitating the sale of these assets;

v) The grantee institution shall send to the Department of Information Technology at the end of each financial year as well as at the time of seeking further installments of the grant a list of assets referred to in (ii) above;

vi) Should at any time grantee institution cease to exist, such assets etc., shall revert to DIT;

vii) The grantee institution shall render progress-cum-achievement reports at interval of not exceeding six months on the progress made on all aspects of the project including expenditure incurred on various approved items during the period.

viii) The grantee institution shall render an audited statement of accounts to DIT.

ix) The audited statement of accounts relating to grants given during financial year together with the comments of the auditor regarding the observance of the conditions governing the grant should be forwarded to the Department of Information Technology within six months following the end of the relevant financial year; x) The utilization of grant for the intended purposes will be looked into by the Auditor of grantee institution according to the directives issued by the Government of India at the instance of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the specific mention about it will be made in the audit report;

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xi) DIT or its nominee/s will have the right of access to the books and accounts of the grantee institution for which a reasonable prior notice would be given;

xii) The grantee institution should maintain separate audited account for the project. If it is found expedient to keep a part or whole of the grant in a bank account earning interest, the interest, thus earned should be reported to this Department. The interest so earned will be treated as a credit to the grantee to be adjusted towards future installment of the grant; xiii) Sale proceeds of components, prototype, pilot project etc. fabricated as a result of the development of the project arising directly from funds granted by Department of Information Technology. shall be remitted to DIT;

xiv) The know-how generated by the project, shall be property of DIT. Any receipt by way of sale of know-how transfer, royalties training etc., shall accure to DIT. DIT may, in its discretion, allow or direct a portion of such receipts to be retained by the grantee organization.

xv) DIT will have the right to call for drawings, specifications and other data necessary to enable the transfer of know-how to other parties and the grantee shall supply all the needed data at the request of DIT;

xvi) Application by grantee institution for any other financial assistance or receipt of grant/loan from any other Agency/Ministry/Department for this project should have the prior approval of Department of Information Technology.

xvii) The Grantee institution is not allowed to entrust the implementation of this project for which grant-in-aid is received to another institution and to divert the grant-in-aid received from Ministry of Information Technology as assistance to the later institution.

xviii) DIT shall appoint a Project Review and Steering Group (PRSG) comprising of representatives from DIT and other experts. PRSG will periodically monitor the project in all respects including technical and financial.

xix) The Grantee institution will first make all efforts to protect intellectual property generated out of the project. The grantee institution will examine Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection issues in consultation with IPR Cell, DIT to file patents, register the copyrights etc. before making it public by publishing in the technical journals and books, presenting findings in Conferences etc. xx) The Intellectual property and the rights associated with it shall be assigned to DIT. In cases where the fundings have been done jointly with other organizations, the IP rights would be appropriately shared. xxi) In case of any dispute on any matter, related to the project during the course of its implementation, the decision of Secretary, DIT, shall be final and binding on the institute.

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A certificate of acceptance of terms and conditions as above needs to be given by the chief investigator/ endorsed by the head of the institute while submitting the project proposal.

Signatures :

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Annexure -VB

Specific Terms & Conditions governing grant-in-aid relating to the consortium mode project: Responsibilities of Consortium Leader

i) The DIT Grant-in-Aid will be released to the consortia leader who in turn will release the assigned funds to the consortia members based on the requirements and satisfactory performance of the consortia member and the recommendations of PRSG/ DIT.

ii) Consortia Leader would ensure the delivery of the end product as per specified Software Requirement Specifications (SRS).

iii) Evolve Standards and Evaluation Mechanism for modules/sub-systems/components as well as the end product.

iv) Evolve internal monitoring mechanisms for consortium members v) Integration Testing and resolving interface issues of the modules developed

by CMs.

vi) Submission of Software life cycle documents to DIT vii) Obtaining individual Utilization Certificate / Statement of Account/Audited

Statement of Account/ Six-monthly Financial and Technical Progress Report etc. from Consortium Members and submission of consolidated Utilization Certificate / Audited Statement of Account / Progress Report to DIT.

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Responsibilities of Consortium Members

i) Development of modules/sub-systems/components /defined interface assigned to them

ii) Close interaction with Consortium Leader and other Consortium Members to ensure delivery of the module.

iii) Cooperation with Consortium Leader regarding monitoring and evaluation of assigned modules/sub-systems/components /defined interface.

iv) Submission of Utilization Certificate / Statement of Account /Audited Statement of Account/ Six-monthly Financial and Technical Progress Report etc. to Consortium Leader for submission to DIT

Signatures :

Consortium Leader

Head of Institution