The Honourable Minister of State for Information Technology, visited Shimla on 24th and 25th of July to inaugurate the 11 Project Arrow Post offices through NIC Video Conferencing by connecting to all 11 Post offices at various locations spread over 4 Lok Sabha constituencies in Himachal Pradesh from General Post Office, Shimla. The event was highly successful as the quality of VC  was excellent and the MoS interacted with two Members of Parliaments, Sh. Virender Kashyap, Shimla LS and Sh. Rajant Sushant, Kangra LS, who were present at Nahan and Palampur Post offices, respectively. The MoS appreciated the NIC VC considering the importance of VC in view of the difficult geographical conditions of the State.

Earlier, on 24th July, the MoS reviewed the functioning of the various Departments under his preview, in which the SIO, NIC Himachal Pradesh also presented the details of infrastructure, services and major Software projects of NIC Himachal Pradesh. While appreciating the efforts of NIC State Centre, the MoS advised to develop more SW applications in Hindi so that the rural people benefit the most. He also assured to provide full assistance from his Department, in case of requirement.