Hi all, I noticed this was not shared here; and decided to post it here.

The new National Repository of Open Education Resources in India has been launched, and Dr. Tharoor, the HRD Minister announced its licensed under CC-BY-SA! *http://nroer.in/home/*

Here is the link to a speech by Dr. Shashi Tharoor http://tharoor .in/speeches/launch-of-national-repository-of-open-education-resources-nroer/

*Pranav from the Wikimedia India Executive Committee* has been in touch with the minister for the past six months and was involved in this from the start.

This is a post about it; written by a Community Member, Rohini Lakshane, which appeared in the Economic and Political Weekly: http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/widening-access-educational-resources.html