Digital Information dissemination is the current trend. A well-defined mechanism is necessary to organize, store, access information. Web portals act as a source to disseminate information on specific set of domains. Web Portals offer the users a broad array of information that are arranged in a convenient form. The current communication highlights role of web portals that helps to enhance access to array of information. Web portal has been developed using Service oriented architecture (SOA). The portal is designed on LINUX platform using various tools such as HTML to describe the structure of the portal, CSS3 for styles and JavaScript as a scripting language. Energy and Wetland Research Group (http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy), CES-IISc web portal is an interactive user friendly web portal which is continuously fed with numerous information such as articles –journals/conference papers, newsletters, technical reports, current research, openings, announcements, workshops, course details etc. that could be easily accessed by any user across the globe. Information dissemination using web portals would help in contributing to the vision of Digital India.
Keywords__ Web Portal, SOA, Information Dissemination, Digital India.