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About NIC

National Informatics Centre under the Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology of Government of India, is a premier
Science and Technology Organization, that has been helping
transform governance from the Centre to State to the Local levels
with the innovative use of India’s homegrown digital governance
solutions. As the technology partner of the government, NIC has
always been providing innovative technology-driven solutions
that contribute to various aspects of India’s development.

NIC established a nationwide state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure
exclusively for the government departments for internal
communications, program management and online delivery
of government services as well as citizen engagement. This
infrastructure includes High-Speed Secure Network, Data Centres,
Government Cloud, Messaging & Video Conferencing services
pan India. With the increase in adoption of new technologies such
as Data Analytics, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of
Things (IoT), the demand and availability of ICT infrastructure with
better capacities needs to continue increasing exponentially.

Through technology enabled services and platforms for the
government, NIC has successfully created a digitally-enabled
ecosystem which has helped government departments continue
their work during the past years of the pandemic. Services such
as Video Conferencing are significantly easing the functioning of
the government departments and organizations by eliminating
avoidable travel.

Under the ambit of Digital India, NIC has built various platforms
such as eShram, eNAM, eTransport, eAbkari, eCounselling, &
eCourts to name just a few. These platforms and services are
helping citizens from all walks of life along with the government to
continue their activities uninterrupted in the face of any crisis or
challenge. Aadhaar, Direct Benefit Transfer and Digital Payments
have helped in transforming many citizen-centric services into a
faceless, cashless and paperless mode. India Portal is one of the
many projects developed and implemented by NIC. NIC is also at
the helm of implementing major Digital India initiatives at all the
three tiers of governance of the country.