Department of Information technology ,Government of India in the context of preparing the Eleventh Five year plan (2007-2012), has constituted a working group on Information Technology Sector. This groups primary focus is to help formulate the plan for communications and Information Sector. Section 4.9 of this plan highlights the need for Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) in India. In order to enhance the usage of Free/Open Source software the group suggested four qualitative measures which involve steps like encouraging development of indic software on FOSS platform through incentive programs which if considered could break the digital barrier.

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