An initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development under the “National Mission on Education through ICT”.
1. It aims to provide remote-access to Laboratories in various disciplines of science and engineering for students at all levels from under-graduate to research.
2. It also intends to develop a complete Learning Management System where the students can avail the various tools for learning, including additional web-resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self-evaluation.
3. There is also a component where in costly equipment and resources are shared, which are otherwise available to only a limited number of users due to constraints on time and geographical distances.
4. Seven IIT’s(Delhi, Bombay, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Roorkee and Guwahati), IIIT Hyderabad, Amrita University, Dayalbagh University, NIT Karnataka, and College of Engineering, Pune, are the institutions participating in the Virtual Lab.
5. It intends to cover physical sciences, chemical science and various branches of engineering like electronics and communications, computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, biotechnology engineering and civil engineering.