UGC, the apex body tasked with maintenance of standards in higher education, has proposed an all-inclusive and interactive portal, the largest internet language site in the world, where knowledge in all Indian languages will be collected and disseminated.<br/><br/>In a letter to Vice Chancellors earlier this week, UGC has asked all universities and colleges to share digitised and non-digitised material in various languages available with them for the ambitious 'Bharatvani' project.<br/><br/>This project is being launched to accommodate and strengthen the oral tradition by disseminating and presenting the unwritten vernaculars, country's classical literature in different languages, develop e-content and present the country's linguistic diversity in cyberspace.<br/><br/>According to the Census of India, 2001 there are 122 scheduled and non-scheduled languages and 234 mother tongues.