Team Herald
PANJIM: The official websites of Directorate of Education and Official Languages continued to remain under “maintenance”, even a week after these websites were taken down by the State government after it was found that the site with “gov.in” domain had an external link with pornographic content.
The website of State Education Department (www.education.goa.gov.in) and Directorate of Official Languages(www.dol.goa.gov.in) were taken down on October 23, following directions from the National Informatics Centre (NIC) headquarters, New Delhi, pointing out that the site with “gov.in” domain directed the visitors to an external website with pornographic content.
“This website is under maintenance until further notice,” reads the website links.
Sources said that the Department of Information Technology (IT) is still working on the IP address. “Once the problem is rectified, a modified websites would be launched,” sources said.
The websites had bottom ticker with images of several Digital India initiative such as Aadhaar, Digi Locker, Digital India, etc. On clicking the images the visitors are taken to respective website. But it was not in case of Aadhaar.
