NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTRE SERVICES INCORPORATED (NICSI)
- National Informatics Centre Services Incorporated (NICSI) is established by National Informatics Centre (NIC) in 1995 as Section 25 Company to promote the economic, scientific, technological social and cultural development in India by promoting the utilization of Information Technology, Computer Communication Networks, Informatics etc.
- NICSI has been providing services to Government Departments, Organizations etc. NICSI has implemented large number of e-Governance projects.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Indian Telecom Sector has grown exponentially and has become the second largest network in the world, next only to China.
- The number of telephones increased from 898.02 million in the beginning of the financial year to 02 million at the end of March 2014.
- While the wireless telephones continued to grow, the landline telephones kept declining. The number of landline telephones, which was 30.21 million in the beginning of the year 2013-14 declined to 50 million at the end of March 2014.
- On the other hand the number of wireless telephones increased from 867.81 million to 52 million during this period. As a result, the share of wireless telephones increased from 96.64% as on 01.04.2013 to 96.95% as on 31.03.2014.
- The total number of telephones in private sector increased from 767.91 million as on 01.04.2013 to 812.96 million at the end of the March 2014.
- On the other hand, the number of telephones of the public sector declined from 130.11 million to 05 million during this period.
- As a result, the share of private sector increased from 85.51% in the beginning of the financial year to 13% at the end of 214 India 2015 March, 2014, whereas the share of public sector declined from 14.49% to 12.87% during the same period.
- Tele-density, which denotes the number of telephones per 100 populations, is an indicator of telecom penetration in the country. Tele-density in the country, which was 73.32% as on 1st April, 2013, increased to 23% at the end of March, 2014.
- The rural tele-density increased from 41.05% to 01% during this period.
- Urban tele-density, however, registered a decline from 146.64% to 46% during this period.
- Among the service areas, Tamil Nadu (111.14%) had the highest tele-density followed by Punjab (107.23%), Himachal Pradesh (105.59%), Kerala (96.19%) and Karnataka (92.45%).
- On the other hand, the service areas such as Bihar (46.10%), Assam (48.74%), Madhya Pradesh (56.04%), Uttar Pradesh (57.27%), Jammu and Kashmir (66.80%) and West Bengal (55.13%) have comparatively low Teledensity.
- Among the three metros, Delhi Service Area tops in tele-density with 226.85% tele-density, followed by Mumbai (151.90%) and Kolkata (142.67%).