A Profile

Introduction

Established in 1988, Punjab State Centre of National Informatics Centre (NIC-Punjab) has been instrumental in bringing ICT culture in Punjab government. With a focus on building IT interfaces to facilitate citizen-friendly and transparent government, NIC has made significant contributions in improving service delivery by a number of departments including:

• Revenue
• District administration
• Rural Development
• Finance
• Agriculture
• Employment
• Elections
• Social Welfare
• Food & Civil Supplies
• Courts

SUWIDHA and PRISM are our latest initiatives to provide single window services and across the counter property registration respectively, which have revolutionized the way government provides services to its customers. Service counters have been established across the state at district and sub-district level promising and providing committed service delivery.

NIC-Punjab has offices at state and district levels within government complexes so as to have a very close coordination with the government.

NIC Units in Punjab

• District Units
• Punjab State Unit (Punjab Mini Secretariat)
• Punjab Secretariat Unit
• Regional Passport Office (RPO), Chandigarh & Jalandhar
• Central Excise & Customs (CEC), Chandigarh & Ludhiana

Services of NIC-Punjab

NIC provides the following services:

• Technical Consultancy
• Conducting Feasibility Studies
• Software Development & Maintenance
• Networking infrastructure (NICNET) and Video Conferencing
• Technical Support for Implementation
• Training
• Web Services
  • Official Web Site of Punjab.
  • Dynamic web site of Regional Passport Offices in Punjab
  • Website of Punjab Vidhan Sabha
  • Websites of all the 17 Districts of Punjab
  • Intranetfor Secretariat LAN
• Geographical Information System
  • Digitization of village level maps for all the seventeen districts.
  • Linkage of digitized maps with village directory database.