Preamble:
                  Government of India initiated a high priority plan project called "National Informatics Centre" (NIC) under  the Electronics  Commission / Department  of Electronics in 1976, with  the  long tern objective of setting up  a computer-based  informatics  network   for decision  support to the Government Ministries/Departments and  development  of  databases  relating   to India's socio-economic development and monitoring  of  plan  programmes.  Since,  its  inception  in 1977, NIC has been playing  a catalytic  role  in  creating informatics awareness in promoting and systemising the data collection, organisation,  processing   and  its  on-line accessibility.

             From 1985-86,  NIC  has  extended   its   informaitcs   support  services  to  State  and  District administrations and signed Memorandum of Understanding with all the State Governments / UTs of the Union of India.

Objectives:
                    The major objectives of the NIC are :-

• Development of necessary and appropriate computerised information systems / Data bases in various sectors of the economy for interactive use.

• Promotion of Informatics culture at district, state and central level.

• Improvement of the analytical capacity and quality presentation of statistics for decision making and planning at various levels.

• Development of modeling and forecasting techniques that are required for optimal planning for economic development.

• Establishment of computer network with necessary communication equipment for ensuring easy access of information across the nation and ensuring reliable, timely and accurate information enabling optimal use of resources.

• Evolve standards for data collection, compilation and dissemination with the co-operation of related agencies at district, state and central levels.

• Create a dedicated training school with branches in all parts of the country for extensive training / re-training of existing Government personnel and NIC users.

• Provide value added services on NICNET to the users in public and private sectors.

NIC, a premier scientific & technical organisation under Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government  of   India   has   introduced   Information  Technology tools  for  Management Support   System  (MSS),  Development  of  Database  (DBs),  Modelbases  (MBs) & Knowledgebases (KBs) Decision Support System (DSSs), Geographic  Information  System (GISNIC), Paper-Less Office Concept, Electronics Mail Service & Multimedia bases IT training.

NIC District unit ,Baripada since its inception in 1988 has been playing pioneer role in disseminating value based IT culture in the district. Various activities  undertaken successfully at NIC Mayurbhanj are:

i)     Teachers Selection Procedure
ii)     Gun License Registration
iii)    Village Index Card System (Round-4)
iv)    MISMI (daily & weekly market price data for selected commodities)
v)     Daily Receipt & Expenditure status of  Dist. Treasury, Mayurbhanj
vi)    Old Age Pension & Widow Pension
vii)   COM-TAX (Commercial Tax)
viii)  PAYROLL for district administration
ix)    CASE,TAX & BALANCE for Revenue Section of Collectorate
x)     Community Needs Assess Approachment (Family Welfare Department)
xi)    SS (for  District Small Savings office)
xii)   Imparting training to Dist. Staff & Officials
xiii)  INTERNET based services

 DISNIC (District Information System of NIC) programme:-

The DISNIC programme which  was operational has been completed.

VICS (Village Index Card System) (Round-1):-

The round 1 VICS programme  which was implemented has been completed successfuly & 4th round of the same project is going on now .The District Statistic Office personnels are being given hands-on-training on the know-how of Software and entering of data. The Block-1 initialization work is going on right now.

Role of NIC Dist.Centre, Mayurbhanj in Computer based  randomization of Polling Parties :-

According to the norm envisaged by Chief Election Commissioner a software package utilizing MS-ACCESS was extensively used to appoint the Polling parties to the various polling booths for LOK-SABHA poll as well as Assembly poll.

Building on the 1999 LOK-SABHA Election Result Reporting System, NIC District Centre, Mayurbhanj took the advantage of expansion of this system for round-by-round results of  7 (Seven) Lok-Sabha constituencies and the Web-based data were transmitted to the Doordarshan studios for Nation wide  telecast.

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