Website :  www.india.gov.in

The Indian Government lays a lot emphasis on the adoption of good governance practices and an important dimension of this is the anytime, anywhere delivery of government services to the citizens. A lot of these services are being provided online by a number of different departments working in various sectors of development. But this also means that citizens have to visit a large number of websites of government departments for different services. For making such information and services accessible in a convenient manner, it is important to have a one-stop source for all the government information and services. A ‘National Portal’ of the country is an ideal platform to facilitate this.

With this view, ‘india.gov.in’, the National Portal of India has been designed, developed and hosted by National Informatics Centre (NIC). The Portal has been developed as a Mission Mode Project under the National E-Governance Plan (NEGP) of the Department of Information Technology, Government of India. The objective behind the Portal is to provide a single window access to the information and services being provided by the Indian Government.

The portal provides a unified interface to over 5000 Indian Government websites and acts as a logical front-end to the e-government initiatives under various Central/State/UT governments’ schemes and programmes. It caters to a wide range of audience and stake holders right from common citizens, government departments and corporate sector to NRIs, national and international media and general public across the world.

Besides, one can find Government Tenders, Documents, Policies, Forms, Schemes, Maps etc on the National Portal. As content is one of the major critical component of the Portal, the National Portal Coordinators (NPCs) have been nominated from each of the State to contribute the content. The content contribution to the portal is therefore a collaborative effort of the States, Departments and Ministries.

The objective behind the Portal is to provide comprehensive, accurate, reliable and one stop source of information ranging from health, education, housing and employment to travel, law & order and finances. A variety of citizen services being provided by the Government across sectors and states/UTs will also be accessible from the Portal. Online access to government services right from obtaining licenses & certificates to filing tax returns, from applying for a passport/ visa to getting the name included in electoral rolls and from registering a company to booking a train ticket on the net all shall be available on the portal.

CDIT has been identified as the Content Service Provider for the National Portal of India project for a period of one year. CDIT has prepared different types of contents and forwarded the same to National Portal Secretariat which is in the process of getting published in the National Portal. An indicative number of different categories of content namely 57 Service Registration, 52 Forms, 461 Acts, 11 Rules, 251 Documents, 57 Schemes, 257 Important Web Links, 12 Contact Directories, 74 Announcements contributed from Kerala. These contents have been reviewed by the National Portal Secretariat.

As per the guidelines from the National Portal of India, to approve the content prepared/contributed by CSP, NPC has to constitute a Project Monitoring and Review Committee (PMRC) under his chairmanship with NCNP as member convenor and departmental heads as members. Government of Kerala has constituted the PMRC as per G. O. numberd (G. O. Rt.)No: 79/2009/IT.). The G. O. is available in the "Downloads->Government Orders" page of ITMission Website.

Inauguration of National Portal of India by Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri V.S. Achutanandan on 10.09.2008 at Hotel Residency Towers