NIC has been offering network services over C-band and Ku-band (TDMA, FTDMA, and SCPC & Satellite broadband) VSATs, Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and Local Area Networks (LANs) with NICNET gateway for Internet resources.  This has promoted economic, social, scientific and technological activities, and also assisted in macro-economic adjustment programmes for the Government. NIC has been playing an important role in informatics development programme for the Government during the last 25 years, enabling the departments to take policy decisions and use the opportunities provided by NIC’s digital technology. Some of the ICT developments that have taken place are:

1. Central Government Informatics Development Programme – overcoming “digital divide” in Central Government Departments and Ministries during the 5th Plan period

2. NICNET gateway for Internet/Intranet Access and Resource Sharing in Central Government Ministries and Departments during 1980s and 1990s.

3. IT in Social Applications and Public Administrations

4. State Government Informatics Development Programme – a strategic decision to overcome “digital divide” in State Government Departments

5. NICNET - a 1st of its kind among the developing countries, using the state-of-the art KU-band facilities and facilitating decentralized planning; improvement in government services; wider transparency of national and local governments and improving their accountability to the people

6. DISNIC – a NICNET based district Government Informatics Programme overcoming the “digital divide in District Administration

7. Reaching out into India, before the arrival of Internet, to all districts of the country


NIC Headquarters, based in New Delhi has a large number of Application Divisions that provide total Informatics Support to the Ministries and Departments of the Central Government. NIC computer cells are located in almost all the Ministry Bhawans of the Central Government and Apex Offices including the Prime Minister’s Office, the Rashtrapati Bhawan and the Parliament House. Apart from this, NIC has various Resource Divisions at the Headquarters, which specialize into different areas of IT and facilitate the Application Divisions as well as other NIC Centers in providing state-of-the-art services to the Government.

At the State level, NIC State Centers provide informatics support to their respective State Government and at the District level laid the NIC District Informatics Offices, which strive hard to provide effective informatics support to the Development, Revenue and Judiciary administration of the District. In order to promote Information Technology in the country, focusing on INTERNET Technology based Value-added Services in the area of Industry, Business and Commerce, NIC has also established 17 National Information Technology Promotional Units (NITPUs) at major industrial / commercial cities viz.- Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune and Vishakapatnam. These centers provide Video-conferencing facilities, EDI services and other INTERNET Technology based Services over NIC’s network, NICNET