We’ve already mentioned that the database can be accessed .. now comes the official launch in March
Graham Greenleaf of AUSTLII? writes …
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The Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India)
will be launched officially in Delhi on 9? March 2011, followed by launches in Hyderabad on 11 March, Bangalore? on 23 March, and Kolkota on 8 April. Further details of the launches? will be sent once available.
LII of India now has 79 databases, with the addition this week of 31? State and Territory legislation databases from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar,? Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh,? Haryana, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala,? Lakshadweep, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Manipur, Madhya Pradesh,? Mizoram, Orissa, Punjab, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu,? Tripura, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh. More legislation databases? are under preparation.
We expect that by the time of its launch in India, the system will? have over 100 databases.
The National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata has now? become the 5th Indian partner? institution in LII of India. Prof.? V.C.Vivekanandan, Ministry of HRD IP Chair Professor, NALSAR has been? appointed as the Director of LII of India. LII of India was admitted? as the 34th member of the Free Access to Law Movement on 25 November
2010.
LII of India has been open for free access since 25 November 2010. A? two page brochure on the system is attached, and you are welcome to? distribute it and this message to interested colleagues.