The National Informatics Center (NIC) District unit Anantnag J&K, was established in 1989, but due to disturbances in the Valley it was closed temporarily and was again made fully operational in 1996. Since then NIC Anantnag has been helping the District Administration by providing the IT based support in all most all the day to day activities. In its initial inception the Center was equipped with PC-386 machines and NICNET connectivity was provided with the help of c-200 VSAT. But with the passage of time latest technology in the field of IT has been introduced and presently the Center is having the state of art VSAT (FTDMA) technology, 2 MBPs and 34 MBPs Lease Line Circuits, High speed Video Conferencing facility, Routers, Rack mounted Servers, etc. A Local Area Network (LAN) comprising of about fifty nodes has been established. The LAN covers the main DC Office building and various departments having their offices out side the main complex All the nodes have been provided Internet facility through the NICNET.
    Training is the other aspect which is given thrust. Officials from various departments have been provided training in handling the computers. This has helped a lot to promote the informatics culture in the district. Various projects which have been completed / undertaken by NIC Anantnag are as under:-

     

    Establishment of Local Area Network
         Computerization of Electoral Rolls

    Computerization/Internet facilities during Parliament / Assembly /  Panchayat Elections
    Computerization of SRO-43 Cases
    Preparation of Village Amenity Directory
    Preparation of Annual District Plan
    Computerization of Relief Work
    Computerization of Land Acquisition cases

     

    Support for various National / State level projects:             

     

    Computerization of Police Stations

    Computerization of Urban Local Bodies

    • Computerization of Animal Husbandry Department 

      Computerization of Social Welfare Department

    • Court Computerization (E-Court)
    • Computerization of Treasuries
      Computerization of Fund Offices
      CNAA Project.
    • 8th All India Education Survey
    • Online Monitoring of Rural DevelopmentWorks.
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    The above are only a few mile stones crossed and several other challenging projects are yet to be taken. Keeping in view the fact the NIC Anantnag is working hard to develop informatics culture, the dream of complete computerization in the district will definitely be realized.