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National
Informatics Centre
(NIC) is a premiere S&T organization
of the Government of India in the field of Informatics
Services and Information Technology (IT) applications, and
has been instrumental in steering Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) applications in Government
Departments at Central, State and Districts in government
services, wider transparency in government functions, and
improvement in decentralized planning and management.
To facilitate this, NIC has established a nationwide ICT
Network-NICNET-with gateway nodes in Central Government
Departments, 35 State/UT Secretariats, and in almost all 602
district Collectorates, for IT services. The Government has
designated the nation-wide Computer-Communication Network,
NICNET, as the Government Network. The Organizational set up
of NIC encompasses its Headquarters at New Delhi, State
Units in all 28 State capitals and 7 Union Territory
Headquarters and District centres in almost all the
Districts of India.The Organization employs a large pool of
efficient technical manpower.
At the State level, the NIC State Units provide informatics
support to their respective State Government and at the
District level, The NIC District Centres provide effective
Informatics support to the Development, Revenue and
Judiciary administration of the District. The NIC, West
Bengal State Centre is located at Bidyut Bhavan, Salt Lake,
Kolkata with other nodal centres at Writers' Building, New
Secretariat Building, Rawdon Street. The NIC, West Bengal
State Centre has been actively involved with the promotion
and penetration of Informatics Culture towards e-governance
exclusively to the Government at the State and District
administrations. New initiatives, as per enthusiasm of the
Government of West Bengal towards electronics governance
have been taken up. Click here for Infrastructure more
The West Bengal
State Centre (NIC-WBSC) of the National Informatics Centre(NIC)
has been actively involved in promotion and penetration of
Information Technology towards E-Governance at the State and
District Administration levels in line with the national
mandate of NIC. During the last two decades, the NIC has
developed and implemented several Information systems and
Information and Communications Technology(ICT) applications
covering a host of important Departments of the State and
Central Government. The Information systems developed and
implemented during late eighties and early nineties of the
last century have evolved into ICT applications during late
nineties with the advancement in and availability of
technology. Citizen centric applications, service delivery
systems and E-Governance applications being the present demand
of the user community and so also of the administration,
NIC-WBSC has gone ahead with development of citizen centric
and service oriented systems. The result of this effort is
demonstrated by a number of systems that are in operation in
various Departments.
NIC-WBSC has
proactively associated itself in the Mission Mode Projects(MMP)
National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of the Government of India
for their implementation in the Government of West Bengal. The
state Government has selected 15 Departments for the NeGP
implementation and created as many Project e-Governance
Mission Teams(PeMT). It is also decided by a high level
committee of the state government that ICT consultants shall
be engaged to carry out the tasks of study, analysis,
development, implementation and post-implementation support on
a mission mode basis. While NIC-WBSC is nominated as a
technical member in all the PeMTs to assess, evaluate and
monitor the progress of NeGP implementation, NIC-WBSC is
chosen as an ICT consultant for seven of the Departments.
Although NIC-WBSC
has extended support in almost all the important Departments
of the state Government, a lot more remains to be done. What
has been done so far is picking up selected important services
of a Department for e-delivery of them and a good degree of
success is achieved. The target is now to introduce
E-Governance in true sense keeping all the aspects of service
models G2C, G2G, G2E, G2B and the interoperability framework
in view. After all an integrated web based software to
e-deliver all the mandated departmental services including
payment gateway (wherever applicable), RTI compliance,
complaint redressal etc. should be there in place.
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