National Informatics Centre was entrusted the responsibility of computerisation of Central Excise Commissionerates, Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), Ministry of Finance throughout the country in the year 1991. The first version was released in November 1991. Over the period, the SERMON...

Orissa has been the leading state in India to implement NIC-GeP -electronic procurement system by leveraging the Information Technology tools & the best practices. The success story in government sector has inspired the Corporations / Government undertakings like IDCO, IPICOL, Gridco, and OMC...

Mohammad Haleem Khan spoke exclusively to Informatics on Right To Information Act and CICs ICT initiatives to empower the citizen to avail information they so desired:

My tryst with computerisation started as Chairperson in the Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB). The main job of the TRB is recruiting teachers for schools as well as for colleges. The manner in which candidates were evaluated gave room to manipulation. All data was available to anyone for...

Hazaribag- literally meaning City of Thousand Gardens, is situated at 2019 ft above the sea level in the North Chotanagpur Plateau. Congenial salubrious climate, abundant flora, fauna, wildlife sanctuary, lakes and hills have attracted tourists to this place since long and is also considered as a health...