A half day workshop on eGovernance was organized at NIC, U.P. State Unit, Lucknow for the IAS & IFS probationers in the state. 12 IAS & 3 IFS probationers posted at various positions in the districts attended the three hour workshop held at Yojna Bhawan, Lucknow. The session was divided into two parts. In the first session, Dr. Saurabh Gupta, STD & SIO, NIC, Uttar Pradesh Pradesh presented in detail the various eGovernance projects in the state including eDistrict, eScholarship, Land Records, Treasuries, Transport, Commercial Tax, UP Public Service Commission, Social Pensions, Food & Civil Supplies etc. He also gave an overview of the IT infrastructure available at the NIC, State Centre and the Districts. The participants showed keen interest in various eGovernance projects and future roadmaps, they also discussed various challenges faced at the district level with NIC project teams.

In the second session a visit to the NIC Data Centres was organized for the participants. Here the participants were shown the NIC Server Farm, storage solutions, backup infrastructure and NICNET & NKN NoC. The participants were also shown real-time Network Monitoring through NMS. The workshop ended with the vote of thanks by the participants.