Universal Eye Health and Odisha budget

Budget is the most complicated subject, other than acts and laws in an administration. In the colonial period, there was no differentiation between central and state govt. But their influences are still replicated in the governance practices. Now blindness control programme is a victim of that blind replication in Odisha. It is difficult to get such a news from Odia media from the web, though the print media is purely off line and the so called e-papers are not searchable any more. So English media is only assurance to such exploration.

On 23 Feb 2018, state finance minister Sashibhusan Behera presented the state budget of 1 lac 20 thousand crore rupees in the budget session of state legislative assembly, where Universal Eye Care is a prominent subject with an allocation of 600 crores. Most probably that would be implemented by a handful of private organisations. Our media usually do post mortem to incidences and happenings, rather making expose-able reports. Even many a time, such reports remain confined as district level reports in a regional edition and do not reach at the state capital editions. This issue may be victim of such negligence practice of media to woo the erring administration.

Last year on 12 October 2017 World Sight Day, Govt of Odisha celebrated it with much pump and announce the state run Universal Eye Care project, as the first state in the country. Chief Minister, Health & FW Minister, departmental secretary, ophthalmologist, para medics, officials and legislatures had participated in the celebration. A walking rally was organised from Capital Hospital to Jayadev Bhawan. That has been taken shape in 2018-19 state budget. But the question is how will it be executed to reach the unreached. Because the believers and practitioners of Institutional Eye Health have been promoted as chairman of the mission for Universal Eye Health. Factually, most of visually challenged rural masses do not know the facilities available at urban centres. They need on Community Eye Care or Universal Eye Health programme in real terms. Community Eye Care means the eye hospital will reach out to remotest villages and hamlets. The service may rendered through camps or medical van. However it would cover all age groups for eye screening and further action. Such dedicated organisations are mostly NGOs, spreading across Odisha. They are also rendering services at no cost or low cost to identified persons of even poorest households. The matter at state level is different mostly in case of the budget, which is being just approved in legislative assembly without much questioning.

Some of the top bureaucrats who has noteworthy contributions and experience in community eye care, have not been consulted even during formulation of the project. Mr Girish S.N., IAS has introduced the Mission Netrotsav in 2005 during his period as DM cum Collector of Dhenkanal district. He has given his best effort to reachout the remotest pockets of Dhenkanal; where weavers, bidi workers, NTFP promary collectors, forest dwellers included to address their eye sight problems and to educate them for their proper eye care by themselves. Mr Girish has been felicitated by President of India for this noteworthy project. Similarly an IFS (Indian Forest Service) top official Dr Vinod Kumar has also handled a landmark innovative project during his career as PCCF (Principal Chief Conservator of Forests), Odisha. Later he posted as the Director of Indira Gandhi National Forestry Academy, Dehradun. During his period 2300 trained cadres promoted to serve in rural and tribal dominated areas to organise eye screening camps and provide eye care support to visually challenged persons. All these were possible through the active support of NGOs. In the third instance, Mr Niranjan Sahoo, IAS has done many noteworthy actions in the favour of eye care in Khurda district during his career as DM cum Collector there. Coincidentally he is a state level officer and serving at 3rd floor of the Odisha State Secretariat, where CM officiates. He had also taken help of NGOs to perform some notable actions to promote Eye Care for All. Most probably, he also has been skipped from the consultation by the budget formulation team. This is a shocking experience!

It is a clear indication of vote bank budget to divert funds in the name of a mega eye health programme, where unreached will remain unreachable. Probably state administration would present it as a promotional programme through mini marathon, padyatra, cycle rally, Facebook campaign, media campaign only. When Modi govt at centre is talking about a diabetes-free India, then Naveen govt in Odisha is planning to address a sure effect of diabetes through its annual budget. But there is big question mark that whether it would utilize the funds for real cause and real action to address the eye care issues of Odisha? Lord Jagannath should monitor the realities through his dark eyes!

BIS on Smartphone Standardization

Electronics and IT Department, BIS <litd@bis.gov.in>

प्रति bimal.odisha@yahoo.in

CC Head LITD ELECTROTECHNICAL

24 अप्रैल बजे 2:35 PM

Dear Mr Bimal Prasad,

This has reference to your mail dated 19 Apr 2017 addressed to DG BIS regarding queries on Standardization of Mobile phone batteries, Discouraging manufacturing of 2G handsets and Interface for Indian language input and removing character limitation for Indian scripts in Mobile SMS, we would like to submit the following:

1.      Standardization of mobile phone batteries:

        a.       You may kindly refer to the following existing Indian Standards dealing with batteries for portable applications:

 i.       IS 16046:2015 Secondary Cells and Batteries Containing Alkaline or Other Non-acid Electrolytes - Safety Requirements for Portable Sealed Secondary Cells, and for Batteries Made from them, for Use in Portable Applications ( First Revision ).

 ii.      IS 16047:2012 Secondary Cells and Batteries containing Alkaline or other non-acid Electrolytes - Secondary Lithium Cells and Batteries for Portable Applications

        b.      It may also be noted that IS 16046 is covered under compulsory registration under Electronics & Information Technology Goods (Requirements for Compulsory Registration) Order 2012  of Ministry of Electronics and IT, GOI. 

        c.      However, your comments in this reference have been noted and would be deliberated upon during the next meeting of the concerned sectional committee, ETD 11.

2.    Discouraging manufacturing of 2G handsets and defining features like 16GB internal memory and VoLTE:

        a.       BIS is not the appropriate authority for controlling / mandating the manufacturing of mobile handsets restricting to 2G, 3G or VoLTE.

3.     Regarding  Interface for Indian language input and removing character limitation for Indian scripts in Mobile SMS:

    a.     Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) vide their order dated 24 Oct 2016 has mandated Indian language support for mobile phones as per IS 16333 (Part 3): 2016 ‘Mobile phone handsets part 3 Indian language support for mobile phone handsets — Specific requirements’ w.e.f. 1 Jul 2017. In accordance with IS 16333 (Part 3): 2016, mobile phone should have capability to support Indian languages. i.e. all mobile phones should be capable to display all the characters of all Indian official languages and should be capable of inputting all characters of English, Hindi and an additional Indian official language as per code charts given in IS 16350:2016 ‘Enhanced Inscript Keyboard Layouts’. The code charts in IS 16350:2016 are same as mentioned ISO 10646:2012 which is the Unicode standard.

    b.   The difference in character count (160 characters for Roman and 70 for Indian scripts) in SMS is because of the following reason:

Standard SMS message size is 1120 bits. Latin-based languages such as English and French use GSM encoding, which equates to 7 bits per character; limiting 1 SMS to at most 160 characters whereas, many other languages including Indian languages use Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) encoding which equates 16 bits per character; limiting 1 SMS to a maximum of 70 characters.

Hence  Limiting the character count per SMS for different languages may not be technically feasible.

Hope your queries are clarified.

with regards,

Manikandan K

Scientist-C

Electronics & IT Department

Bureau of Indian Standards

Manak Bhavan

9 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg

New Delhi - 110002

Smartphone Standardization delayed - email to DG BIS

Smt. Alka Panda, IAS

Director General (DG)
Bureau of Indian Standards
Manak Bhavan
9 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002,India     
Tel: 011- 23237991, 23236980, Fax: 011- 23235414
dg@bis.gov.in
www.bis.gov.in                                                              

Date: 17 Feb 2017, Bhubaneswar

Madam

Namaskar.

I am quickly drawing your kind attention to the following few points:

(1) Mobile phone batteries are not yet standardized, which is sole responsibility of your organisation. It is a huge negligence since last 15 years. I have also written to yo before from my official email Id on the same issues. But there is no action from your team. It is good that 1/2 technical officers from BIS had discussed with me. But surprisingly they could not understand what is standardization for mobile phones, marketed in India.

In due course, the charging pins/ jacks have been standardized by manufacturers (including audio jacks and data cables). BUT THE BATTERIES ARE COMING WITH MANUFACTURER-SPECIFIC SIZES AND VOLTS OUTPUT. PLEASE DEFINE THE SIZES/ DIMENSIONS TO AT LEAST 5 VARIETIES. AND COMBINE THE OUTPUT VOLTS ACCORDINGLY. In short, the battery dimension and power output should be defined and confined in India irrespective of SMART PHONES, MOBILE DEVICES and feature phones.

(2) Manufacturing of 2G handsets should be discouraged. Recent trend of owning a 4G VOLTE handset (say smartphones)  is the impact of JIO REVOLUTION. BIS has no contribution in this move. So the previous 4G players/ operators had lost their reliability and business. Please define features like minimum 16GB internal memory, VoLTE and so on.

(3) The biggest drawback of smartphones/ mobile phones marketed in India is its language compatibility. INTERFACE language or INPUT language should be Indian exclusively. And the SMS or messaging standard should be Unicode standard only. Similarly the character limitation for Indian scripts should be removed. And set at par with English/ Roman script. Presently one SMS count is 120 characters in Roman and 70 in Indian scripts. This is a huge negligence and exploitation of the republic govt yet in 2017...

I do believe that your Personal Assistant would present this email on your table and then your technical team would review the issues minutely to take a quick action.

Please listen to people respectfully at least during this union govt.

Thanks and regards.

ବିମଳପ୍ରସାଦ / Bimal Prasad
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Top 10 Fake News Forwards

2016: Top 10 Fake News Forwards that we almost believed

From currency to salt-very little escaped the reach of fake or fabricated news in 2016. Rumours spread from WhatsApp and other social media into the mainstream media. Institutions such as UNESCO and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had to step in and tell us what was true. Even Facebook and Google, two of the world’s biggest internet companies, sat up and took notice.

Such news can have widespread reach: India is one of the biggest markets for several social media and communication companies-it has 160 million of WhatsApp's one billion-plus monthly active users, 148 million Facebook users, and over 22 million Twitter accounts.

The potency of fabricated news came into focus after the 2016 US presidential elections. In the run-up to the ballot, fake news on the elections drew more engagement on Facebook than top-performing stories from major news outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, NBC News, or The Wall Street Journal, this BuzzFeed News analysis found. Other countries witnessed the rise of fake news too, according to this Guardian report, rendering it a global phenomenon in 2016.

Here are some of the most popular Indian fake news stories of 2016:

1. UNESCO declares PM Modi best Prime Minister

UNESCO has been one of the primary alleged sources of fake news in India. In June 2016, fake news broke out on WhatsApp groups, and other social media, that the UN cultural agency had awarded Prime Minister Narendra Modi the title of best prime minister in the world.

This rumour is still circulating on social media.

2. UNESCO declares "Jana Gana Mana" best national anthem

Another favourite Indian rumour involving Unexco is the claim that India's national anthem -- "Jana Gana Mana" -- has been declared the "Best National Anthem In The World". The fake news started in 2008 through email and then caught the UN agency's attention. "We are aware of several blogs in India reporting this story, but can assure you that UNESCO has made no such announcement concerning the anthem of India or any country," an official told India Today in 2008.

Circulation of the rumour peaked around India's Independence Day in 2016.

3. UNESCO declares new Rs 2,000 note best currency in the world

Another fake UNESCO certificate for India touched upon the notebandi crisis, as messages claimed the organisation had certified the new Rs 2,000 note as the "best currency in the world". The message, shared widely on WhatsApp, claimed "Dr Saurabh Mukherjee, head of cultural awareness department of Unesco announced this to media".

The rumours caught the eye of the BBC, which reported that "thousands" of Indian WhatsApp users had "forwarded the message along with joyful emojis".

4. New notes have a GPS chip to detect black money

Another notebandi rumour proliferated when PM Modi announced the withdrawal of old Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes on November 8, 2016. In less than an hour, rumours circulating on WhatsApp of a nano geo-positioning system (GPS) tracking device embedded in the new Rs 2,000 notes gained traction. This chip, the messages said, would alert authorities if black money was hoarded.

The nano-GPS chip does not need any power source, the forward said, according to a Firstpost report. "It only acts as a signal reflector. When a satellite sends a signal requesting location the NGC reflects back the signal from the location, giving precise location coordinates, and the serial number of the currency back to the satellite, this way every chip-embedded currency can be easily tracked & located even if it is kept 120 meters below ground level. The NGC can't be tampered with or removed without damaging the currency note." Mobile currency-scanner apps emerged claiming the app can scan new notes and have these authenticated by RBI, according to a Firstpost report.

The RBI has clarified the new notes contain security features such as latent images, coloured strip security threads, watermarks etc, but they do not have a chip installed, according to a The Hindu report.

This rumour was so powerful to compel Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to clarify in media conference.  

5. New notes have Radioactive Ink

Notebandi provided more fodder for fake news. Earlier this month, rumours began circulating that the RBI was using radioactive ink to print new Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 notes. The new notes include a "radioactive isotope of phosphorous (P32), which has 15 protons and 17 neutrons". The fake news claimed the income-tax department was using the isotope to trace large quantities of cash held at a particular spot. The trace amounts of radioactive isotope employed in this exercise were not harmful to humans, according to WhatsApp messages, as FirstPost reported.

6. WhatsApp profile pictures can be used by ISIS for terror activities

A WhatsApp forward, supposedly sent by the Delhi police commissioner, requested "moms" and "sisters" to delete their WhatsApp profile pictures for security purposes. These pictures were supposedly vulnerable to misuse by the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), whose hackers had access to citizens' details and could easily steal their virtual identity, according to the forwarded message. The message further claimed that WhatsApp's CEO had requested users do this for 20-25 days, while their team worked on enhancing the messaging application's security features.

The message was signed off by an A.K. Mittal, who claimed to be Delhi's police commissioner -- blatantly wrong because the incumbent is A.K. Varma.

7. RBI declares the Rs. 10 coin invalid

Months before notebandi was announced, the message that the RBI had declared the Rs 10 coin invalid spread through WhatsApp, particularly to areas in Agra, Delhi and Meerut.

This confusion led shopkeepers, kiosk-owners, auto-rickshaw drivers and vendors to refuse the coins, according to a Hindustan Times report from September 2016.

The RBI stepped in and clarified that the coins were indeed legal tender and those refusing to accept the currency could face legal action.

8. Jayalalithaa's ‘secret daughter' and heir lives in the US

Soon after the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, fake news and photos of a secret daughter went viral on WhatsApp and social media. The message alleged that the woman in the photograph was Jayalalithaa's daughter, who lived somewhere in the US in anonymity.

As it turns out, the woman in the photograph was not connected to Jayalalithaa and lived in Australia, according to popular singer and TV show host Chinmayi Sripada, who took to Facebook to dispel the rumours.

9. Salt shortage in India

WhatsApp messages of a salt shortage (despite a 7,517 km coastline) in November 2016 triggered panic buying at markets past midnight, and caused a four-fold price-rise in some parts of the country. Western Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra and Hyderabad were particularly affected by this bit of fake news, said news reports. The subsequent chaos to stock up on the essential commodity led to the death of a woman in Kanpur, while police baton-charged crowds and stopped mobs from looting grocery shops, according to an India Today report.

The government issued a clarification denying any shortage of the commodity.

Speaking at an event in Goa, PM Modi claimed the fake news was being circulated by "vested interests hurt by demonetisation".

10. "Nehru Govt has stood like a Banyan Tree": Mark Tully

Fake news claiming former BBC India bureau chief Mark Tully called for support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, while describing India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's government as standing "like a banyan tree, overshadowing the people and the institutions of India", went viral on social media earlier this month. "Nothing grows under the banyan tree," the message added.

Tully rebutted the claims of the post in a Hindustan Times column.

(Courtesy: ommcomnews.com)

Local language support must for Mobile Phones

All Smartphones will soon be having support to display content in 22 official Indian languages and provide input capability for three languages— Hindi, English and one local language.

Earlier, it was reported that Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY) has sent a draft amendment to the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to make all feature phones being sold in India, compatible with at least one local language.

R.S. Sharma, Chairman, TRAI, said, “We are working with BIS and Indian Cellular Association (ICA) for formulation of the guidelines for including Indian languages in mobiles, which will be finalised in next two months”

The move is considered crucial for furthering Government’s Digital India mission, so that all citizens irrespective of whether they know English or not should be able to access and use eServices provided by the Government.

Apart from the local language support, the specifications will also require all mobile phones to have a minimum of 4GB memory, of which 2GB will be reserved for Indian language support. While most smartphones do not have an issue with memory problems, low-end feature phones will need to make these changes to accommodate the said specifications.

As a part of the initiative, the Government will translate all its websites from English to a local language, which will require a lot of effort. They are trying to put a policy in place to generalise the translation process, which will be through machines having a database of regional languages.

Algorithms will be used to convert English to local language without getting rid of the meaning of the sentences. The Government has contemplated a timeline of next eight months to successfully translate all websites.

About 100 Central Government websites are expected to be converted into local languages. Once the handset makers are also able to include the local languages, readers will be able to access the websites in their choice of language.

Citizens staying in rural parts of the nation will heavily profit from this move because they are usually deprived of all such important needs and technology. This will enable them to get access to government websites and information related to government services from the comfort of their homes.

(source: ENN, 17 Feb. 2016)

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to Every Indian

Dr. Abdul Kalam's ‎Letter‬ to Every Indian 

Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a Great NATION. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice. 

Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transformed the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit... There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. 

I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news. In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. 

Why are we so NEGATIVE?

Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? 

We want foreign T.Vs, We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? 

I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14-year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is... She replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her, you and I will have to build this developed India.

You must proclaim - India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation...YOU say that our government is inefficient. YOU say that our laws are too old.

YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage. You say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination. You say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits. YOU say, say and say.. 

What do YOU do about it? 

Take a person on his way to Singapore. Give him a name - 'YOURS'. Give him a face - 'YOURS'. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. 

In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. 

YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are.. You pay 5 dollar (approx. Rs.. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. 

YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity… 

In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? 

YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai...YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs..650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.

YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage bin on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand...

Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston??? 

We are still talking of the same YOU.

YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. YOU who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, 

Why cannot you be the same here in India ? 

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet dispose any excreta. Same in Japan...Will the Indian citizen do that here?

We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility. We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect   the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.

We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public. When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others what do we do?

We make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. 

OUR EXCUSE?

'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system? What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not ME & YOU. 

When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr.CLEAN to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England. When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government.

Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too… 

I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians…..'

ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'

Lets do what India needs from us.

Thank you.

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Odisha Govt. and Odia communication

How Odisha Govt. can promote online Odia communication

It is high time to use Odia language for all official communication in Odisha government sector. Since last one decade, the Unicode Odia has been developed and implemented. So the computer literate persons and administrators should use it for better written and online communication. Please follow the quick reference guide to use Odia typing in computers and so on:

1. The users must have a genuine OS (Operating System) for the desktop or laptop computers.
2. It has been seen that most of the computer users in Odisha are using pirated OS version of Windows XP. Windows XP has been declared obsolete by its developer Microsoft Inc. since 8 April 2014. So any of the computer must go for Windows7 or higher version of OS.
3. Strategically the Govt. sector should go for free and safe OS like Ubuntu (Linux).
4. Govt of India has developed Unicode typing tools for all scheduled Indian languages including Odia at free of cost. It can be downloaded or collected from the concerned website of TDIL (Technology Development for Indian Languages) i.e. http://ildc.in/langcdinit.html or can be ordered by online registration through the website, else can be contacted via toll free 18002091015.
5. The free typing tools are specially developed for various versions of OS.
6. The users should have learned the INSCRIPT keyboard, which is Indian Standard keyboard layout for all Indian languages.
7. Phonetic keyboard layout may be used by some users who are reluctant to learn the INSCRIPT keyboard. Alternatively you can download desktop typing tool in Odia from Microsoft Bhasha (http://bhashaindia.com/ilit/Oriya.aspx), which would enable you to Predictive Text Typing in Microsoft programs and Windows based programs. This is an amazing tool for everybody.
8. Alternatively the Windows7 or higher version OS users can get the in-built typing tool with INSCRIPT keyboard layout, by following the "Region and Language - Keyboards and Languages - Change Keyboard - General - Add....." option. So they don't need any other typing tool.
9. The govt. offices use nic.in or gov.in email Ids, which is developed, provided, and maintained by National Informatics Centre (NIC). So NIC can add a Typing tool plug-in to the email programs for Indic languages. However "desktop typing tool" is the best solution for Indic language communications online.
10. Much training is not required for Govt officials to make it convenient. Through visual and interactive training methods, relevant users can be able to handle Odia communications.

Do refer some of my detailed blogs to be self guided professional:
http://bharatbasi.blogspot.in/2015/03/type-odia-easily-in-windows7.html 

http://bharatbasi.blogspot.in/2015/03/blog-post_27.html

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