National Informatics Centre (NIC)

Subject – Governance

Context – NIC drops Modi image from SC emails

Concept –

The NIC provides email services to the Supreme Court.
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is an attached office under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in the Indian government.
It was established in 1976 and is located in New Delhi.
The NIC provides infrastructure to help support the delivery of government IT services and the delivery of some of the initiatives of Digital India.
NIC provides network backbone and e-Governance support to the Central Government, State Governments and UT Administrations.
NIC has been closely associated with the Government in different aspects of Governance besides establishing a Nationwide State-of-the-Art information and communication technology (ICT) Infrastructure.
It has also built a large number of digital solutions to support the government at various levels, making the last-mile delivery of government services to the citizens a reality.