The Honorable Union Minister of  Law and Justice, Communications and Electronics and Information Technology, Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurated the  S3WaaS based revamped websites of districts Srinagar and Baramulla on 23.01.2020 during his visit to Kashmir.

In his key address during the inaugural event, he said that districts are the key entities in the government structure where actual execution of schemes and programs take place and district level websites is an important link between the administration and citizens. S3Waas has been envisaged to bridge this gap and built with an objective to empower the District administrations to generate, configure, deploy and manage secure, scalable and accessible websites for publishing district specific information and services without much effort and technical knowhow. Honorable Minister stressed that tagline for website of district Baramulla should be “District Baramulla is the only place in the world where three hundred different varieties of apple are grown”.

The State Informatics Officer, NIC J&K Mr. Abhay Kumar apprised the Honorable Minister that after the suspension of Internet in J&K, NIC Srinagar has established 15 Internet Facilitation Centres (IFC’s) in District Srinagar in collaboration with District Administration. So far these Internet Facilitation Centres (IFCs) have provided Internet services to more than two lakh users. These include students and faculty members of various schools, colleges and universities, doctors, paramedics and faculty members of associated hospitals of Govt. Medical College Srinagar, businessmen, tourists, hoteliers, contractors etc.  All the District and Divisional level officers/officials use the Internet facility at these centres for activities like uploading / downloading of data regarding centrally sponsored schemes, e-tendering, budgetary allocation, GST Returns, Income Tax filing,   mail services etc. 

NIC Srinagar and NIC Baramulla have also coordinated and provided Internet and other logistical support for the conduct of various National Level Entrance examinations like JEE Main, NEET PG, JRF etc at various examination Centres established at Srinagar by National Testing Authority. NIC district centre Baramulla also provided Internet services to more than one lakh users.