Indictrans is a voluntary group without any commercial or financial bindings. It is based on a lot of free softwares created by the GNU community which deserves the primary credit.
We are a start-up as social entrepreneur . We aim at building 'social capital' through making the communication and networking feasible and affordable among the people knowing indian languages. This we believe is a primary requirement for a democratic regeneration of our society as also a condition for harmonious globalisation.

About Prof. Jitendra Shah

Prof. Jitendra Shah is the founder/funder of IndicTrans team.Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department at Polytechnic at the VJTI. Prof. Shah was also previously employed by the IIT, Bombay, Garware Plastics and IBM World Trade Corporation in Bombay. He is a senior software specialist.

Prof Shah was mesmerized by the LOGO programming language (see www.softronix.com) and got it introduced in curriculum of VJTI first year diploma courses way back in 1991.
Prof. Shah has been a member of the several Expert Committees of Computerisation and Government of Maharashtra over years and Convenor/mentor of the IndicTrans team, a non-commercial, non-profit software group that developed Marathi, Gujarati and Hindi interfaces, fonts and educational software and egovernanace initially in the Gnubhaaratii bootable CD .
He was a IT consultant to TISS Rural Campus for a year. He worked on deputation at C-DAC Mumbai and then at DIT with Government of Maharashtra and YASHADA Pune for short while.
Prof. Shah has conducted a variety of software projects including grid generation, database management, software program management and established the ATC, Boreland software, Pro/ENGINEER Lab , FOSS Lab (with NRCFOSS nrcfoss.in support)at VJTI, and initiated the Free Software Indian Language project (Gnubhaaratti) at VJTI and later moved it to C-DAC Mumbai.

Prof. Shah qualified with a B.Tech in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering from the IIT, Bombay in 1973 and obtained his ME Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bombay in 1986.

IndicTrans Developers

In addition to Jitendra Shah, IndicTrans Team has a strong team of developers. Each developer has a great deal of technical and/or business knowledge.

Core Members

Swapnil Hajare Ever since in college, he worked on FOSS projects for localization with a strong motivation to work for bridging the digital divide. This was also his academic project at final year thesis for his undergraduate degree program.
Soon after passing out he worked for Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) for computerization of their rural campus . TISS is primarily into social work and trains and relates to NGOs. At rural campus, they had 6 major themes of rural development including education, health, agriculture, watershed planning, social divides etc. he was also involved in developing a course for the NGOs for use of IT.
AGNI was involved in voter enablement and cleansing the election process. He worked as a programmer for Prof Jitendra Shah who undertook to 1> devise a webbased search engine for voterlist for the Election Commission of India 2> for a program to create a database based on affidavits of election candidates. Both projects were FOSS based and used Marathi ( local Indian language in Uniocde standard) a thing beginning to happen in 2004.
He helped create the gargi font , the first Devanagari font under GPL which is now also available from Govt of India's site. He supported many NGOs in migrating from non-Unicode to Unicode including Govt of Maharashtra.
He was the first to come out with local language enabled 'gnubhaaratii' bootable CD with a number of localised applications under the auspices of IndicTrans, an informal group set up by Prof Jitendra Shah. This was later the basis of conceiving a project funded by Govt of India at VJTI and which eventually hosted at C-DAC Mumbai. He was the chief technical coordinator of [www.janabhaaratii.org.in janabhaaratii ] project at C-DAC Mumbai whose aim was "Localization of FOSS: Development, deployment and Community Building". The gnubhaaratii and janabhaaratii CDs have been distributed free (online) to many needy users.
He also worked as the main programmer for a program for Computerization of ration cards ( see shidhaa ) for Govt of Maharashtra.
He was one of the two the main developers of localised FOSS based GIS applications He was one of the developers for the Workshop for Bombay Municipal Corporation for use of GIS in epidemiology and Microplanning, funded by UNICEF and conducted at his alma matter VJTI, Mumbai..

Kanhaiya K. Kale Ever since in college (SGGS Nanded), he worked on FOSS projects for localization with a strong motivation to work for bridging the digital divide. This was also his academic project at final year thesis for his undergarduate degree program.
He also worked as the main programmer for a program for Computerization of ration cards ( see shidhaa ) for Govt of Maharashtra.
He was one of the two the main developers of localised FOSS based GIS applications he was one of the developers for the Workshop for Bombay Municipal Corporation for use of GIS in epidemiology and Microplanning , funded by UNICEF and conducted at VJTI , Mumbai.

Gupteshwar Joshi He got his first introduction to FOSS was in final year for GIS project by his colleague Kanhaiya. This was also his academic project at final year thesis for his undergarduate degree program. Enthusiasm gives more famililarity with it ,then over the period he got two more strong hands (Jitendra Sir and Swapnil) who nurtured his belief in FOSS and give a motivation for working with FOSS and life of liberation and changed enthusiasm into passion.
He worked as the main programmer for a program for Computerization of ration cards ( see shidhaa ) for FCS Govt of Maharashtra. He has also participated in OSGEO Membership Application over CMS web poral as programmer. He got his first live GIS experience through localised FOSS based GIS applications for municipal corporation (see PCMC-GISDA).