National Informatics Centre (NIC) is a premier S & T (Science
& Technology) Organization of the Government of India in the field of Informatics
Services and Information Technology (IT) applications, and has been instrumental in
steering Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) applications in Government Departments at Central,
State and Districts, facilitating improvement in government services, wider transparency
in government functions, and improvement in decentralized planning and management. To
facilitate this, NIC has established a nationwide ICT Network – NICNET – with
gateway nodes of about 53 Central Government Departments, 35 State/UT Secretariats, and
over 570 District Collectorates. The government has designated the nation-wide
Computer-Communication Network, NICNET, as the Government Network.
NIC is offering network services over C-band and Ku-band VSATs,
Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks and Local Area Network with NICNET gateway for
Internet resources, to promote economic, social, scientific and technological activities,
and also for macro-economic adjustment programme to the Government.NIC has played an important role of an
‘active’ catalyst and ‘facilitator’ in informatics development
programme in Governments at the National, State and District Levels, during the last 25
years, which has made them to take policy decisions to create ‘knowledge’
societies that can exploit knowledge to derive competitive advantage using the
opportunities provided by ‘digital technology’. NIC has been instrumental in
adopting Information Technology and Communication Technology “to reach out into
India.
NIC Services profiles includes
around 20 service areas likeConsultancy, Software Design & Development, Office
Automation and Networking Services to Training, Video Conferencing, CAD, EDI, Multimedia
and Internet Services including Web Site Development and Hosting etc
NIC Uttara Kannada District unit was established in the
year1989 and the present premises is at Uttara Kannada Zilla Parishad, and since then it
is giving IT related support to various Government Organizations in the district.
