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Information Technology and Application

Notes recent times to the latter with the result that information Management has become very import.
DISNIC programme attempts to server the needs of the administrators in a co-ordinated and
uniform manner. Its specific objectives are to

develop necessary databases in various sectors of the economy for planning and decision
making at the district level.
promote informatics culture at the district level through appropriate training programmes.
improve the analysis capacity and presentation of statistics utilized for National, Regional
and District Planning.
develop modelling and forecasting techniques that are required for decision making for
socio-economic development.
promote Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques for planning and also remote
data applications for Natural Resources Management at grass-root level.

12.5.1 Achievements

NIC has emerged as a “prime builder” of e-government / e-Governance applications in government
sector (national, state and local districts) as well as promoter of digital opportunities for sustainable
development, during more than a quarter century period. NIC has institutional linkages through
its ICT Network “NICNET”, with all the Departments/Ministries of the Central Government, 28
State Governments, 1 National Capital Territory of Delhi, 6 Union Territories, and about 600
District administrations of India. NIC has been instrumental in steering e-Government/
e-Governance applications in Government Ministries/Departments at Centre, States, District and
Blocks, facilitating improvement in government services, wider transparency, promoting
decentralized planning and management, resulting in better efficiency and accountability to people.
NIC has been an active catalyst and facilitator in “informatics-led-development” programme of
the government (could also be termed as an e-Government programme, an e-Governance
Programme), enabling it to derive competitive advantage as well as to ‘reach out into India’ by
implementing ICT applications in Social & public Administrations which are discernable from the
following:
Central Government Informatics Development Programme in the Fifth Plan Period (i.e.
1972-77)
“NICNET” a gateway for Internet/Intranet Access and Resources Sharing in Central
Government Ministries and Departments during 1980s and 1990s;
State Government Informatics Development Programme in the Seventh Plan Period (i.e.1985-
1990);
DISNIC A NICNET based District Government Informatics programme for District
Administration;
Reaching out into India during 1985-90, even before the arrival of “Internet” Technology, to
all the districts of the Country with different types of terrain, Agro- climatic conditions
varied Regional and Socio-economic developments.
iNOC Integrated Network Operations Centre, equipped with the state-of-the-art
technology for managing the NICNET operations.
Integrated Data Centre A world class Data Centre with state-of-the art infrastructure having
the capacity to house more than 1000 high-end servers, supporting a wide range of
technologies.
Establishment of Digital Certification Authority and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
Establishment of Disaster Recovery Centre (DRC) at Hyderabad.
During the last 27 years, NIC has implemented many “network centric” applications software for
Programme implementation in various ministries and departments, using state-of-the-art software
tools. “Reaching-Out-Into” and “Reaching- the-Unreached” Concepts were experimented and made
operational by NIC through its various ICT Diffusion Projects through its 600 NICNET nodes
located in district headquarters, even before the INTERNET Technology was introduced in this
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