Government of India, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
National Informatics Centre, Shimoga, a unit of Premier IT organisation of the country was  established in the year 1988 with an aim to provide computerisation  support to the local government system. The offices were set up in Zilla Panchayat Office Premises and District Magistrate's office. The initial task was to generate computer awareness among the local government officials and encourage them to use NICNET communication facility. NIC Shimoga has come a long way since its inception. The district unit is involved in various computerisation Projects catering the needs of the District Administration, Zilla Panchayat and other state/central government departments.   The district unit also played a major role towards e-governance by designing websites for all the 3 major departments of Shimoga District i.e District Administration , Police Department and Zilla panchayat.  

ICT Services Offered to the Central Government / State Government / District Administration / Local Bodies  Software & Hardware Technical consultancy to District Administration

Shri. Pramod Hirolikar , BE(Comp.Sc)
District Informatics Officer ( Principal System Analyst/Scientific Engineer-'D')
E-mail :pramod.h@nic.in

Shri. Vinod Kumar, BE(Comp.Sc)
District Informatics Associate