NIELIT to communicate with students via Data Radio

Government's IT and Telecom training institute NIELIT has partnered with IT company Data XGen Technologies to use its voice-based social messaging platform Data Radio to send communications to students enrolled with it.
"NIELIT is set to notify all the existing and past students on day-to-day announcements through the Data Radio feature. With this unique feature of DataMail app, students will be getting alerts on examination schedules, result announcement links, details of various events, technology tips, etc on a regular basis," NIELIT Director General Ashwini Kumar Sharma said in a statement.
Data Radio is part of Indian email service DataMail created by Data XGen Technologies. NIELIT was formerly known as DOEACC society.

The voice-based social media messaging feature -- DataRadio -- allows users to broadcast messages to their followers.
Users of DataMail can create a radio channel using the name of his or her choice free of cost and anyone who is aware of the name of channel can subscribe to it through his or her datamail account like it is done on social media platform Twitter.
The broadcast message will appear in the notification sent by Datamail app on mobile phone.

The message received in the notification segment of mobile phone cannot be forwarded at the moment.
"NIELIT has opened up 'NIELIT' Data Radio channel for the students of computer courses, computer hardware courses, Bio Informatics, BPO Course, Information Security, Multimedia and Animation technology, PG Diploma courses and other short term courses," the statement said.

The message received in the notification segment of mobile phone cannot be forwarded at the moment.
"Make in India, DataMail app is a unique blend of linguistic email address service and voice-based social media feature - Data Radio. Our aim of enabling users to communicate in their own language is to support the government's initiative of bringing the big chunk of Indian population in world wide web," Data XGen Technologies, Founder and CEO, Ajay Data said.
He said that through Data Radio, NIELIT can reach out to around 7 lakh students.