The National Informatics Centre is the premier science & technology organisation of India's Union Government in informatics services and information-and-communication- technology applications. The NIC is a part of the Indian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology's Department of Electronics & Information Technology. It has played a pivotal role in steering e-governance applications in the governmental departments at national, state and district levels, enabling the improvement in, and a wider transparency of, government services. Almost all Indian-government websites are developed / managed by NIC. Field of work NIC offers telecommunications-networking services including Ku band (TDMA, FTDMA, SCPC & satellite broadband) VSATs, wireless metropolitan-area networks (MANs) and local-area networks (LANs) with gateways for Internet- and Intranet-resource sharing. It is the network infrastructure and e-governance support to India's central government and state governments, union-territory administrations, administrative divisions and other government bodies. The NIC assists in implementing information-technology projects, in collaboration with central and state governments, in the areas of: Organisation NIC is a part of the Indian Ministry of Communications & Information Technology's Department of Electronics & Information Technology and is headquartered in New Delhi. It has offices in all 28 state capitals and 7 union-territory headquarters and almost all districts. At New Delhi Headquarters, a large number of Application Divisions exist which provide total Informatics Support to the Ministries and Departments of the Central Government. To cater to the ICT needs at the grassroots level, the NIC has also opened offices in almost all district collectorates. NIC Extends Technical Coordianation and IT support to District Administration. NIC computer cells are located in almost all Ministry bhawans (buildings) of the central government and Apex offices including the Indian Prime Minister's office, the Indian Presidential Palace (Rashtrapati Bhavan) and India's Parliament House (Sansad Bhavan). Services The NIC offers a host of services including: computer-aided design (CAD) digital-signature certification geographical-information system (GIS) domain-name registration for gov.in and nic.in informatics biomedical informatics patent informatics rural informatics biomedical informatics patent informatics rural informatics internet data centre (IDC) mathematical modelling and simulation computer networking office-procedure automation (OPA) training videoconferencing website hosting & website development Projects Broadly classifying NIC projects fall under these categories State Government Projects Central Government Projects Central Government Projects Accounts Informatics Division Agriculture Informatics Division Audit Informatics Division Crisp D/O Animal Husbandry And Dairying Data Centre And Web Services Disnic Plan e-Admission/e-Counselling services Economics & Statistics Division Election Commission Of India Energy Informatics Division Environment Forests Informatics Division Fertilizer Informatics Division Food And Consumer Affairs Infosys Division Gis And Remote Sensing Division Health Informatics Division Land Resource Informatics System Division (Lrisd) M/O Minority Affairs M/O Personnel, Adm. Reforms, Pub.Gre. And Pension M/O Science And Technology M/O Water Resources National Knowledge Network Rural Development And Panchayatiraj Sector State Government Projects ACES-Adjourned cases enquiry system for Maharashtra administrative tribunal Admission Couseling for Technical Education Affidavit Issuance System (AIS) AGMARKNET Agri-Portal Matir Katha for Agriculture Department Gov. of West Bengal AISES ( All India School Education Survey) Anytime/Anywhere e-Services-Land Records Arms License Issuance System Arunachal Pradesh Payroll System Audit Monitoring System Bar Coded Food Coupon System for AAY Scheme BELE(Crop)-Web enabled AGRISNET Inf.System BHOOMI for Revenue Department Border Check Post System BPL Census BPL Survey 2002-Report Generation Software Budget Information System BUDNIC (Budget Information System) BWSSB Ganakeekrutha Grahakara Seve,Water Billing and Collection System CAPnic CASCET for Education Department Case Information System Centralized File Movement & Tracking Information System CIPA (Common Integrated Police Application) City Civil Court Computerization CM Announcements Implementation Monitoring System CORD (Computerisation of Registration of Document) including e-Stamping, West Bengal Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Informatics_CentrePublic domain image sourced from http://wikipedia.org/wiki/File:National_Informatics_Centre_Logo.svg

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