Foreign office to launch integrated portal in 2011

By IANS,

New Delhi : Lauding the power of the internet in revolutionizing communication, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao Friday announced the external affairs ministry’s plans to launch an ambitious integrated portal that will create uniformity of outlook across all the websites of the ministry and its over 160 missions aborad.


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“We have started work on an more ambitious integrated MEA ministry of external affairs) portal. It is meant to introduce uniformity in the look, feel, content and navigational ease for all the websites of the ministry and its missions/posts abroad,” Rao said here.

An inter-ministerial committee, headed by the additional secretary (administration) in the ministry, has been set up to oversee the development of the portal, Rao said.

The integrated portal is expected to be launched by May-June next year.

Rao also launched the redesigned website of the external affairs ministry and a brand new portal of its public diplomacy division that is trying to harness new social media like Facebook and Twitter to project India’s positions on key policy issues.

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