India.gov.in To Go Multilingual; Design Still Poor

The National Informatics Center (NIC) has developed the portal India.gov.in, as “a single point of interaction with citizens as well as NRIs and foreigners who plan to visit India”, and to be the online face of the country, according to Dr Vijayaditya, Director-General NIC, in an interview with Network Magazine. The portal links to 5,000 government sites. Content can be rated, edited and moderated by users. It’s currently available in English and eventually will be made available in all Indian languages.

Some questions: Why only make it available in Indian languages if it is targeting foreign tourists and NRIs – why not international languages? How much money was spent on this portal? And before I forget – why is the user sign-in form in the bottom right corner of the page?
A report had earlier called it a poorly designed site, but no one at the NIC seems to have done anything about it.

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