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New Delhi : National Informatics Centre Services Incorporated (NICSI), a Public Sector Enterprise under National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), celebrated 25 years of its establishment on January 28, 2021. Union Communications, Electronics & Information Technology, and Law & Justice Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was the Chief Guest of the event.
Dignitaries including Ajay Sawhney, Secretary (MeitY), Jyoti Arora, Special Secretary & Financial Adviser (MeitY), Dr Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary (MeitY), and Chairman, NICSI, Dr Neeta Verma, Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC), C P Gurbani, CEO, Tech Mahindra India, Debjani Ghosh, and President, NASSCOM, were also present on gthe occasion.
Speaking on the occasion Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “Technology is an enabler, a facilitator, and it empowers. Digital India is a movement to empower ordinary Indians with the power of technology. It bridges the digital divide and brings in digital inclusion and must be achieved with the technology that is homegrown, developmental, and inclusive.”
Prasad further added, “This movement of low-cost technology being produced by Indian entrepreneurs, the Government, and the private sector was the reason why we could develop the Made in India vaccine in the fight against Corona. Made in India 5G should be our ambition.I vision India as the topmost country in the world as a Data Economy and NICSI shall play an important role. The kind of humongous data we are going to generate is going to become the facilitator, accelerator of the Data Economy. Many African countries like to know more about Digital India and low-cost technological solutions where NICSI can chip in.”
Ajay Sawhney, Secretary (MeitY), highlighted the significant milestones of NICSI and said,“NICSI has been a great support for Ministries, Departments, and State Governments in providing all kinds of softwares and services. Over a period, NICSI has also diversified into National Scale Data Centres. We have implemented many eGovernance projects with NICSI, and harmonising them into National Public Digital Platform is the next wave to embark upon.”
During the event, Prasad launched TEJAS – A Visual Intelligence Tool, e-Auction India, Work from AnyWhere, NIC Products Portfolio, and rolled out the Silver Jubilee e-Brochure of NICS, according to a PIB release.
TEJAS – The visual intelligence tool, through the collaborative effort of NIC and NICSI (CEDA), is completely developed in-house using open source technologies and bringing together the best features comparable to market leading BI tools.
e-Auction India –It caters to the electronic forward and reverse auction requirements of the Government departments and organisations. It aims at transparency and non-discrimination amongst bidders, by allowing free access to auction documents, clarifications, online submission of quotes from any place on 24×7 basis, in a secured environment, adopting industry standard open technologies.
Work from AnyWhere Portal – WAW (Work from AnyWhere) Portal will enhance accessibility of key applications to the Government employees. WAW portal is built upon core workplace experience and creates a highly extensible environment for users to dynamically adapt to changing needs. The virtual work environment, provisioned by WAW portal, will empower employees with all the key resources enabling them to access organisations’ applications and data and communicate with fellow officials.