CONTRIBUTORSWork on the present version 2.0 of the dictionary started in May 1999 in Ratlam. A large number of students from class IX to XII participated in a workshop and entered database for the dictionary The Workshop was conducted by Dr.Vineet Chaitanya, Amba P. Kulkarni and Dr.Dipti Misra Sharma, members of the Akshar Bharati Group. P.S. Prabha worked on the data provided by them and brought it to the present quality level.
Mr. Pandit, Principal, TRANSLAM-Academy School, Meerut, took active interest and associated his school to this activity. Encouraged by his enthusiam and commitment for the activity the students and teahers of TRANSLAM academy contributed a large amount of database. They took keen interest in the activity and expressed their fascination about how much there was in a word to think about. An area they had not given serious thoughts to earlier.
Under the able supersivion of Ms. Chandrakanta Auluck, students of classes X-XII and even some college students of St.Francis Jr. College, Secunderabad contributed to the database.
Other than school and college students, a number of individuals from various cities, such as Belgaon, Delhi, Calcutta, Chandigarh, Gwalior, Ambala, Roorkie, Hyderabad etc. have contributed to this massive task.
A team of workers in Hyderabad worked tirelessly to bring some uniformity to the database developed by various people.It is the effort of all these people and more which has made the compilation of the present dictionary possible.
The core team is supported by Language Technologies Research Centre, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. The Centre itself is supported by Satyam Computers which has also agreed to support this as free software under GPL.