National Informatics Centre (NIC) is a premiere S&T; institution of the Government of India, established in 1976, for providing e-Government/e-Governance Solutions adopting best practices, integrated services and global solutions in the Government Sector.

In 1975, the Government of India strategically decided to take effective steps for the development of information systems and utilization of information resources and also for introducing computer-based decision support system (informatics-led development) in government ministries and departments to facilitate planning and programme implementation to further the growth of economic and social development. Following this, the Central Government nucleated a high-priority plan project “National Informatics Centre (NIC)” in 1976, and later on with the financial assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to the tune of US$4.4 million.

NIC has played the important role of an active catalyst and facilitator in informatics development programmes in Governments at the national, state and district levels, during the last 26 years which made them make policy decisions to create knowledge societies – societies that can exploit knowledge to derive competitive advantage using the opportunities provided by digital technology. NIC has been instrumental in adopting Information Technology and Communication Technology to reach out to India i.e. by implementing IT applications in Social and Public Administrations.

NIC Kerala State Centre, one of the total solution providers of the Government of Kerala, is actively involved in most of the IT-enabled applications and has changed the mindset of the working community in the Government to make use of the latest state-of-the-art technology in their day to day activities to provide better services to the citizens of Kerala.

NIC‘s presence in Kerala includes the State Centre at Vellayambalam, Trivandrum, Network Operations and Data Centre at CGO Complex, Poonkulam, Trivandrum, District centres at the 14 districts headquarters and Software Development and Training Centre, Kochi.