National Informatics Centre

The National Informatics Centre Services Inc. (NIC) is an Indian government department under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

[4][5][6] The NIC provides infrastructure, IT Consultancy, IT Services including but not limited to architecture, design, development and implementation of IT Systems to Central Government Departments and State Governments, helping in implementing the digitization initiatives of Digital India.

Additional Secretary Narasimaiah Seshagiri was the first to introduce a network system in India called NICNET.

[19] In April 2023, Jio Platforms secured a ₹ 350 crore contract to manage and improve the cloud services of National Informatics Centre (NIC) for five years for onsite maintenance at various Data Centers in Delhi, Pune and Bhubaneswar.

In 2020, the Union Government and NIC has launched the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Blockchain Technology in Bengaluru.

Kapil Sibal inaugurating the ‘National Cloud’ MeghRaj in February 2014