13.24 FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PILOT PHASE: For implementing the “Proof of Concept “ stage, NIC has estimated an expenditure of Rs. 4.95 crore, which has been provided in the budget of the department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development through re-appropriation. This includes cost of hardware, system software and development of various application software and content generation. Application software once developed will not form part of recurring cost while scaling up the model.
