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Frequently Asked Questions

A: Electronics Research and Development Centre of India (ER&DCI) is a premiere Organisation under the Ministry of Communications and IT, providing services in the IT sector, namely Software development, Training and Education.
This web site was incorporated by a student of ER&DCI and supported by group of students, as a means for the alumni, students and people related to the organisation to stay in touch.

A: At present, we are providing individuals, whether erdciian or others, the primary option of becoming a member of this portal, apart from general alternatives such as searching for alumni/students/members and links to a large number of relevant sites.
Members have the added advantage of displaying a personal web page on this site, sending and receiving instant messages, receiving notification of jobs and a host of other features.

A: Anyone who was or is a student of any of the ER&DCI Institutes, or an employee of any organisation of or related to ER&DCI. Moreover, if an individual may wish to support this site, to contribute to its cause, he/she is welcome to apply for membership as long as none of the rules are compromised.

A: First of all, if we have any requirements, they are listed on the home page (http://erdci.netfirms.com) of this site. Anyone capable of fulfilling a part of them and willing to do so can always let us know.
Secondly, if you have any suggestions for improvements and are desirous to help us in this regard, contact us!
Finally, no site can run free of cost for ever. If you know of any programmes such as link or banner based online advertisements which could help support this site through monetary or other contributions, please do inform us.
Contributor's names will be acknowledged on the home page and/or a personal web page provided to them.

A: We do not charge anyone anything to be a member of this site or to use any of the services provided therein. However, if you wish to advertise on our site or use it for commercial gains, we may charge a nominal fee depending upon your requirements.
Please note that we do not provide (sell) member information to anyone, except where the law so requires.

A: Yes, once the portal takes off and we have a substantial number of members. However, first of all, we would need to have our own site and domain name, instead of using a free subdomain!

A: We have a search tool that can search our complete member database for locating any individual as long as the required person was or is a member of this site. Alternatively, if you know the type of member you are looking for, such as alumni or current student, then you can directly browse our database lists using either alumni, student or member links all of which are present under the channels section on our home page (http://erdci.netfirms.com).

A: You require any computer that has a Graphical User Interface such as Windows (Ms-Windows) or X-Window (Unix/Linux) and a GUI based web browser such as Internet Explorer (version 5 and above) or Netscape Navigator (version 4 and above). Further, your web browser must have cookies enabled and javascript support (refer to the help of your web browser).