ahmedabad in the nine years since its launch in september 2013 the gandhi heritage portal considered the biggest online repository of mahatma gandhi related material has received 115 lakh visitors as the nation celebrates the 153rd birth anniversary of bapu the officials of the portal at sabarmati ashram preservation and memorial trust sapmt said that the repository has attracted both scholars and casual visitorsaccording to sapmt officials a majority of the visitors checked the mahatmas family tree followed by photographs collected works audio speeches journals and books ever since the repository opened several segments including scanned books by and related to the mahatma virtual tours of sites related to him and collected works in several languages have been addedvirat kothari the it head of the project said that about 815 of the visitors are from india 8 from the us 13 from the uk 08 from canada and 07 from australia among indian states gujarat tops with 185 of indian visitors followed by 13 from maharashtra 11 from delhi 8 from karnataka and 7 from uttar pradesh he said ahmedabad accounts for about 12 of the total visits to the portal followed by 6 from delhi and 5 from bengaluru officials added that virtual tour of the ashram is also popular with the visitors