subsequently through an additional grant of Rs.20 million from the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. A gigabit fibre-optic backbone was laid in the two campuses of the University. The work on this project commenced in April 2002 and was completed in September 2003. The speed of execution of this mega project has been widely commended. Services available to users include access to the internet through 6 Mbps (shared) bandwidth to the two campuses. Every faculty member, official and many a research scholar has a computer station connected to the LAN and an individual mailbox that can be accessed remotely. The University on its own subscribes to a number of electronic journals and with the coming of the UGC-Infonet-Inflibnet consortium, electronic subscription to a collection of the world's most prestigious journals has become accessible to users throughout the University. Besides, the Campus-wide Intranet, with transmission speeds of the order of Gbps, provides genuine broadband connectivity within the University. In time, it is expected that the application and use of this network will grow. The whole project involved about 44 km of fibre-optic cabling, around 200 km of enhanced Cat5 UTP cabling and has provision for 3200 nodes, stretched across nearly 80 buildings covering all departments, centres and administrative units of the University, 13 campus colleges and 16 on-campus hostels. Since 2004, the reach of the network has been further extended, the Main and the South campuses have been connected directly by a dedicated wireless link, and a trial project of bringing off-campus colleges on the network through wireless has been initiated.