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To encourage infotech applications in Indian languages, Microsoft Corporation India has launched Indic Developer Challenge ? a nation-wide contest for budding local language developers in engineering colleges.

To encourage infotech applications in Indian languages, Microsoft Corporation India has launched Indic Developer Challenge — a nation-wide contest for budding local language developers in engineering colleges.

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The company will scout for talented students and give them technical support for development of applications with interface in any Indian languages. As a first step, Microsoft has reached out to the students directly through technical festivals at the IITs in Delhi and Mumbai and other institutions.

“With only 5 per cent of Indians being English literate, it is imperative that technology be available in the local languages,” said Raveesh Gupta, senior product marketing manager (localisation), Microsoft Corporation India.

He added that in order to promote this, the company was working with the universities of Banasthali and Mysore and the Indian Institute of Science to involve the student community.

The Challenge has already received a response from over 1,000 students. Microsoft hopes that more students would register over the next few weeks.