Call: +91-0370 2271470
Fax: +91-0370 2271469
Email: dit-ngl@nic.in
Introduction
The Department of Information Technology was created during November 2003.
The Department was created with a view to promote the use of Information Technology (IT) and act as a promoter/facilitator in the field of Information Technology in the state and build an IT interface with the rest of the country and the world.
With a view to introduce flexibility and dynamism and to incorporate IT tools for imparting technical education, the technical education sector was transferred and merged with the department of IT on 1st October 2004
Vision
The vision of the Department is to make the State a destination for investors both within and outside the country and to initiate the people of the State to take advantage of this technology through e-Governance and providing IT-enabled services to the State. which shall aim at facilitating in providing a SMART (Simple, Manageable, Approachable, Responsive and Transparent) Government to the people
Functions and Duties
The department of Information Technology has been set up with the following function and duties :
- Formulation of IT policy.
- Secretariat of the IT council and the state level coordination committee for IT applications.
- Planning of different IT related programme.
- Coordination of all IT projects in the government.
- Appraisal of new technologies and prescribing uniform standards.
- Prioritisation of departmental IT programmes.
- Technical support to government departments.
- Pro-active promotion of IT.
- Participation/organisation of IT events.
- Development and management of portal/website of Nagaland.
- Publication of promotional material
- IT-enabled services.
- Bandwidth management and planning internet access.
- Management of all major networks in government.
- Geographical information system.
- IT and IT-enabled education.
- E-governance.
- Citizen-centric projects of E-governance.
- Focal point of IT related investment.
