National Informatics Centre(NIC)

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About NIC

• NIC provides network backbone and e-Governance support to the Central Government, State Governments and UT Administrations.
• NIC has been closely associated with the Government in different aspects of Governance besides establishing a Nationwide State-of-the-Art information and communication technology (ICT) Infrastructure.
• it has also built a large number of digital solutions to support the government at various levels, making the last-mile delivery of government services to the citizens a reality
• The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is an attached office under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in the Indian government.
• The NIC provides infrastructure to help support the delivery of government IT services and the delivery of some of the initiatives of Digital India.
• The NIC was established in 1976  Delhi.
• The NIC is credited with helping the Indian government embrace IT in the 1990s and has also helped disseminate e-governance to the masses.
• In May 2019, the government of India set up the Centre for Smart Governance (CSG), and state governments have since been advised to consult the CSG for IT projects they previously would have consulted the NIC and private firms .