MAJOR NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS WORKING IN THE AREA OF CCT
NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTRE (NIC):
National Informatics Centre of the Department of Information Technology is providing network backbone and e-governance support to Central and State Governments, Union Territories administrations, districts and other government bodies in India. It offers a wide range of ICT services including Nationwide Communication Network for decentralised planning, improvement i n government services and wider transparency in national and local governments. NIC assists in implementing Information Technology Projects and is also responsible for bringing computerisation in the lives of the Indian people.
NIC’s website (www.home.nic.in)
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOFTWARE AND SERVICES COMPANIES (NASSCOM):
NASSCOM is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPO industry in India. It is a global trade body with more than 1200 members who are broadly in the business of services, products, IT infrastructure management, R&D services, e-commerce and web services, engineering services, offshoring, and animation and gaming.
NASSCOM’s website (http://www.nasscom.in)
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
Department of Information Technology is under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. Its main objective is to make India a global information technology super power and a front-runner in the age of information revolution, to bring the benefits of electronics to every walk of life and to develop the Indian electronics industry as a global player. Its website has an important portal, viz., The India Portal (www.india.gov.in), ‘single window access’ to information and government to consumer services to be electronically delivered from all state sector institutions and organisations. It provides multilingual content and had received the Best e-Governance Award in Technology at the national level announced by the Computer Society of India (CSI) in 2006.
Website of Department of Information Technology (http://www.mit.gov.in/)
