The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is the main Science & technology organization of the Government of India in the field of Informatics Services and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) applications. Part of Department of Information Technology division it comes under the purview of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. It has played the pivotal role of steering e-governance applications in Government Departments at Centre, States and Districts, facilitating improvement in government services and wider transparency. Almost all Indian government websites come under National Informatics Centre department.

Field of Work

National Informatics Centre offer networking services like C-band and Ku-band (TDMA, FTDMA, SCPC & Satellite broadband) VSATs, Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and Local Area Networks (LANs) with gateway for Internet and Intranet resource sharing.

Its the network backbone and e-Governance support to Central Government, State Governments, Union Territories Administrations, Districts and other Government bodies. NIC assists in implementing Information Technology Projects, in close collaboration with Central and State Governments, in the areas of

• Centrally sponsored schemes and Central sector schemes,
• State sector and State sponsored projects, and
• District Administration sponsored projects.

Department

National Informatics Centre is under the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India. The headquarters of NIC is located at New Delhi. The State Centres of NIC are established in all the State Capitals. In order to cater to the ICT needs at grassroot le

el, NIC has also set up offices at District Collectorates.

Organization

The organizational set up of National Informatics Centre encompasses its Headquarters at New Delhi, State Units in all the 28 State capitals and 7 Union Territory Headquarters and District centres in almost all the Districts of India.

National Informatics Centre computer cells are located in almost all the Ministry Bhawans of the Central Government and Apex Offices including the Prime Minister’s Office, the Rashtrapati Bhawan and the Parliament House.

Services

National Informatics Centre offers a host of services which include:

• Computer Aided Design
• Digital Signature Certificate
• Geographical Information System (GIS)
• GOV.IN Domain Registration
• Informatics
  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Patent Informatics
  • Rural Informatics
• Internet Data Centre (IDC)
• Mathematical Modelling and Simulation
• Networking
• Office Procedure Automation (OPA)
• Training
• Video Conferencing
• Website hosting Development &

The Districts of india can be accesed from http://districts.nic.in

External links

• National Informatics Centre (NIC)
• National Portal of India
• Gateway to Government of India Info over the web
• Directory of Indian Government Websites

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