The coming of a new year brings new hopes and resolutions. The National Informatics Centre's performance record for 1992 is an indication of things to come in 1993. A year is weighed by the services the Organization is able to offer. Some of the major achievements of the Organization in 1992 include:
- Enhancement of NICNET capacity to handle 800 VSATs. NICNET now has 566 fully operational nodes.
- Setting up of a multimedia-based training facility with 20 low-cost interactive multimedia workstations at NIC Headquarters. These workstations use a PC add-on card, developed in-house by NIC, to provide video control under DOS environment.
- Computerization of Census 1991 data and inauguration of NICNET Census Service.
- Introduction of teletext broadcasting system in Delhi Doordarshan Kendra; installation of Teletext Information Magazines for Indian Airlines, Delhi Railway Station and Lucknow Railway Station.
- Completion of the Madras Port Trust pilot project for the PORTNET-through-NICNET project which envisages the setting up of a computer network encompassing all the major ports of the Country.
- Completion of a DST-sponsored project on "Liquefaction Maps for the Trans-Yamuna Area".
- Signing of a major contract with the US-based Oracle Corporation to obtain state-of-the-art Oracle RDBMS products, and also to become a 'value added reseller' for Oracle products in India.
- Imparting training to about 15,300 participants including Officers and Staff of the Central Government and State Governments; participants sponsored by organizations such as DOP&T, WHO, UNESCO, EPFO, NCERT and under the BTIS and MEDLARS programmes.
- Completion of design of NICNET data highway