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NICSI Celebrates its Silver Jubilee Year

ational Informatics Centre Services Inc (NICSI) celebrated its Silver Jubilee on the way government departments perceive digital, use digital, and in the way
28 Jan 2021 at a formal event at Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, citizens and businesses can use that interface for availing services. DG NIC, Dr.
NHon’ble Union Minister for Law & Justice, Communications and Electronics Neeta Verma, in her speech, remembered Dr. Sheshagiri who was the founder
& IT was the chief guest and the esteemed dignitaries at the dais were Shri Ajay of NICSI, and also highlighted how NICSI has transformed its business model
Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY, Shri C. P. Gurnani, CEO, Tech Mahindra India, Ms. Debjani from Desktop and Servers to Cloud-based Products and Services.
Ghosh, President, NASSCOM, Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, NIC, Dr. She also mentioned “Tejas”, a product that will give “Data
Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary, MeitY and Chairman, NICSI, Analytics as a Service” over the cloud. Shri Prashant Kumar
Shri Prashant Kumar Mittal, MD, NICSI. Delegates from government, Mittal, addressing the gathering mentioned the role of
industry and academia participated in the event. The silver jubilee private and government industries behind the great
celebration was made live for the public and other stakeholders success achieved by NICSI. C. P. Gurnani presented
in government.
his views on the role of IT in India’s new Innovation
System. Ms. Debjani Ghosh, in her address over
NICSI was established in 1995 under NIC, MeitY, GoI for video conferencing highlighted the role of IT in
providing and procuring IT solutions for various e-governance enabling Atmanirbhar Bharat.
projects undertaken by NIC, MeitY, other central ministries
and government organizations such as the public sector
undertakings. A short film on NICSI’s achievements and journey
in the past 25 years was viewed. The software products
Hon’ble Union Minister in his inaugural address highlighted Digital launched on the occasion were Tejas (Visualization
India as a movement to empower the ordinary Indians with the power Intelligence Tool), e-Auction (generic open, public, and
of technology. He urged NICSI and NIC to develop India as a leader in the Data commodity auction platform) and Work from Anywhere platform,
Economy. Shri Ajay Sawhney, in his address emphasized the need for harmonizing the which facilitiates government officials to access the applications enabling the
stand-alone government products and services and looked forward to making these official work activities seamlessly from anywhere. A brochure on NIC product
into single products that will be available for the public with ease. Dr. Rajendra Kumar, portfolio including e-office, ServicePlus, e-Hospital, BhuNaksha, e-Prison,
in his speech highlighted the two key elements “Ease of Living for citizens” and “Ease e-Courts and Darpan was released by the Hon’ble Union Minister. These
of Doing Business for the businesses” which can bring a complete transformation in software products are for International offering.

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