Website Policies| ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis

Material featured on this Website may be reproduced free of charge. However, the material has to be reproduced accurately and not to be used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context. Wherever the material is being published or issued to others, the source must be prominently acknowledged. However, the permission to reproduce this material shall not extend to any material which is identified as being copyright of a third party. Authorization to reproduce such material must be obtained from the departments/copyright holders concerned.

Links to external websites/portals
At many places in this website, you shall find links to other websites/portals. The links have been placed for your convenience. ICMR-NIRT is not responsible for the contents and reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in them. Mere presence of the link or its listing on this Portal should not be assumed as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over availability of linked pages.

Links to ICMR-NIRT Website by other websites
We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on this site and no prior permission is required for the same. However, we would like you to inform us about any links provided to this Portal so that you can be informed of any changes or updations therein. Also, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The pages belonging to this site must load into a newly opened browser window of the User.

Each of the content components that is valid for a particular period of time is accompanied by a validity date. For some of the components the validity date may not be known ie, the content is stated to be perpetual. Under no circumstances, any content is to be displayed on the portal after the validity date.

Content Contribution, Moderation and Approval policy (CMAP) Content is contributed by authorized contributors in a consistent fashion to maintain uniformity and to bring in standardization. In order to present the content as per the requirement of the viewer, and to retrieve the relevant content efficiently, it is contributed through a Content Management System which is web-based. Once the content is contributed it is approved and moderated prior to being published on the website. If the content is rejected then it is reverted back to the originator of the content for modification.

Sections	Contributor	Moderator & Approver
Home page	Administration and Designated Division of ICMR-NIRT	Head of the department
News, Press Releases, Recruitments, Tenders etc
Who’s Who, Organization Chart, Circulars/Notifications
Documents, Forms, Reports etc

Each of the content components that is valid for a particular period of time is accompanied by a validity date. For some of the components the validity date may not be known ie, the content is stated to be perpetual. Under no circumstances, any content is to be displayed on the portal after the validity date.

The Website is the face of the Indian Council of Medical Research, disseminating information and services. It is therefore required to keep the content on the website current and up-to-date. The Content Review Policy is based on different types of content elements. The content element is reviewed Quarterly or immediate in case of any change.

The ICMR-NIRT , the development team and National Government Cloud (NCG) team will monitor the ICMR-NIRT website periodically to address and fix the quality and comparability issues namely, performance, functionality, broken links, traffic analysis and feedback from visitors.

The ICMR-NIRT website has been placed at cloud infrastructure provided by National Government Cloud (NGC).

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Defacement Protection

ICMR-NIRT website is audited for protection against Security & Performance degradation.
Any application level modification on the ICMR-NIRT requires re-audit.
All the server configuration and logs are monitored timely by NCG Cloud
Only System administrator users are allowed to access the servers for doing administration and configuration tasks.
All the backend servers are under lock and net secured.
Contents are updated through a secure FTP using VPN / CMS.

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Monitoring

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Defacement Response Plan

In case of any eventuality, whoever notices the defacement (either Website Monitoring Team or Cyber Security) informs the Web Information Manager on phone as well as through mail.

S.NO.	PERSON IN CHARGE	DESIGNATION	MAIL ADDRESS	TELEPHONE NUMBER
1	Dr. Rajendran K	Scientist E, ICMR-NIRT	krishnan[dot]r[at]icmr[dot]gov[dot]in	044-28369671
2	Mrs. Swarna Deepa B	Scientist D, ICMR-NIRT	swarna[dot]deepa[at]icmr[dot]gov[dot]in	044-28369616

As soon as ICMR-NIRT Server Administrator gets the information regarding the defacement, s/he takes the following steps.
- According to the degree of defacement, the site is stopped or continued partially.
- Log files are analyzed to troubleshoot the source of defacement and blocking of the service.
- The Portal Service is started from the DR site in case of complete loss of data or during long downtime.
- Log files are given to the security division for analysis.
- Based on security recommendations, all vulnerabilities are fixed and the application is re-audited.
- The affected/corrupted content and the site are restored from the backup.
Time for Restoration after defacement
- The time taken for restoration depends on the degree of defacement and services affected by the defacement..

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Natural Calamity Response Plan

There could be circumstances whereby due to some natural calamity (it may be due to any reason that is beyond control of any person), the entire data centre where ICMR-NIRT has been hosted gets destroyed or ceases to exist. In such a case first of all the In-charge of the National Data Centre will declare the natural calamity and would instruct the sites to be started from the DR site, which is located at Hyderabad

The ICMR-NIRT website is hosted on the servers of National Government Cloud (NGC). Therefore, all security issues related to the website will be addressed by the NGC team. The ICMR-NIRT website is security audited as per security guidelines.