From the time when the NBGP group began its journey to create LGR documents and related work for nine scripts under its purview to the current time when it has reached the current level to make it ready to be integrated with Root Zone LGR, a lot of water has flown down the Ganges, Beas, Narmada, and Cauvery. The variation of these are so much and innovations over the centuries of perfecting the letters have been so much that the whole work required a lot of inputs from linguists, epigraphers, literary historians, graphics specialists, and NLP specialists from the academia and industry. Our submissions of LGR at the first level did undergo a lot of comments and modifications from within the NBGP group. We were also greatly enriched by the serious questions and comments posted by the Integration Panel and International experts. We do understand that our challenges will be slightly widened at the second level what we now do will have a great impact on other scripts. With the addition of Bangla (and Chinese) to the already processed other eight South Asian scripts where Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka experts joined Indians and specialists from other countries, I think we have reached a stage that will benefit all. The popular use of this facility in Neo-Brahmi writing systems on the web will be very useful. Towards the next level, we hope to add the Indic digits as well as a hyphen. But that work is underway now. We are hopeful that the first level LGR, once integrated, will facilitate use of our scripts on the net for registry greatly. We are also grateful to all those who participated in the public comment stage earlier and now. Thanks and regards,
Prof Udaya Narayana SinghChair-Professor & Dean, Faculty of Arts Amity University HaryanaPachgaon-Manesar, Dt Gurgaon PIN 122413Cell 9434050218; 9830132234Official ID: unsingh@ggn.amity.eduWeb-site: www.udayanarayana.com