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CH 02 Government of India Identifiers

c. ‘This is the official Website of Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL),
a Public Sector Undertaking of the Government of India under the
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas’
(for a Public Sector Undertaking).

d. ‘This is the official Website of the District Administration of Thanjavur,
State Government of Tamil Nadu (India)’
(for a District of India).

2.1.4 All subsequent pages of the website should also display the ownership information
in a summarised form. Further, the search engines often index individual pages
of a website and therefore, it is important that each webpage belonging to a site
displays the relevant ownership information.
2.1.5 In case of those websites which belong to Inter-Departmental initiatives involving
multiple Government Departments which are difficult to list on the Homepage,
the Government ownership should still be reflected clearly at the bottom of
the page with detailed information provided in the ‘About the Portal/Website’
section.

2.1.6 The page title (the title specified by HTML <title> tag which appears on the top
bar of the browser) MUST describe the topic and purpose of the page. Page title
should be complete with the name of the country included, for instance, instead
of the title being just Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, it should state,
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. Alternatively, in
case of a State Government Department, it should state ‘Department of Health,
Government of Karnataka, India’. This will not only facilitate an easy and
unambiguous identification of the website but would also help in a more relevant
and visible presence in the search engine results. Further, it is important since the
screen readers used by the visually impaired users first read the title of the page
and in case the title is not explanatory enough, it may confuse or mislead them.
(Ref. WCAG 2.4.2)

2.2
Government Domains

The URL or the Web Address of any Government website is also a strong indicator of
its authenticity and status as being official. In today’s era with a large proliferation of
websites, which resemble Government websites and fraudulently claim to provide reliable
Government information and services, the role of a designated Government domain
name assumes a lot of significance.

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