Guwahati, Aug. 30: IIT Bombay will help two universities - Dibrugarh University and Gauhati University - and around 40 colleges in Assam impart lessons on information and communication technology software to students.

Through its spoken tutorial project, IIT Bombay will provide audio-video tutorials free of cost to the institutions to teach open source software like Linux and Java.

IIT Bombay has made these tutorials available in all languages included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. In Assam, the tutorials will also be available in Assamese and Bodo.

IIT officials told The Telegraph as they are not getting enough resource persons to translate the tutorials into Bodo, teaching material in the language is significantly low.

The state department of higher education has issued a circular to all colleges requesting them to cooperate with officials from IIT Bombay as and when they are approached for project implementation. The Union ministry of human resource development is sponsoring the project.

A college teacher said they would get the software in CD or will download it from an authorised website for the students. "This is a self-learning programme where the students will go through the audio-visual tutorials and learn about the software."

The two Assam universities have signed an MoU with IIT Bombay.