Chamoli, also widely known as the 'Abode of God', famous for its natural scenic beauty and holy shrines, is one of the border districts of India. The district covers an area of 7520 sq km, with total population of 370359. Chamoli district contains six tehsils and nine development blocks. The famous Badrinath shrine, Hemkund Shrine Valley of Flowers etc are some of the important places in this district. NIC Chamoli Since its inception in 1989 NIC, Chamoli has continued to promote IT Culture and awareness in this district along with providing full ICT support to the District Administration and other Government Departments. By setting up a centre, at a remotely located place NIC gets a privilege to generate computer awareness amongst the target group, the rural population of the country. Some of the key projects, which have considerable importance, are - Integrated Pay and Account Office (IPAO): NIC Chamoli has implemented the Integrated Pay & Accounts office system in Treasury Chamoli. This software meets the complete functional need of the District treasury for account preparation, payroll, group insurance, GPF etc. Since the implementation of this package, employees can see their pay details on the web. Land Record Computerisation: With the help of the software prepared by NIC, the database of record of right (KHATAUNI) for the whole district was completed. Copy of this record is being generated with the help of this system and being distributed. Revenue administration of the district is able to give copies of KHATAUNI to the public. Basic Siksha Parishad Payroll and GPF System: For the last several years, the unit is processing the salary of all the Basic Shiksha teachers posted at District Chamoli. A number of outputs help officials of Basic Shiksha for timely disbursement of salaries of teachers. Yearly GPF slips are also being generated through this MIS. Training to Government Employees: From time to time, to increase computer skilled human resources, training have been imparted to employees of government departments in a number of batches on basic computer concepts. It has helped a lot in executing many computerized activities in the district. Videoconferencing and data Communication Services: NIC Chamoli has been providing Data communication services to government departments since its inception. Now, the Videoconferencing project has been taken up by the State government with technical support of National Informatics Centre in the district. This facility is extensively used by Hon'ble Chief Minister and his cabinet. Senior Officers of different departments of Secretariat and HODs, are also using the facility to meet their officers placed in the district for getting the status of various running development schemes or ongoing projects and are utilizing their time more productively which was earlier wasted in traveling. With the introduction of videoconferencing in Uttaranchal, all the government departments are widely using this facility. District Website: NIC Chamoli has designed and developed a Website (http://chamoli.nic.in) of the district. It contains useful information about the district which is regularly being updated. This new website is very helpful to the general public, especially tourists, students and Government officers. It contains information pertaining to all the activites of the district. In addition to above URL, the website is also available at NIC Uttaranchal server at http://gov.ua.nic.in/chamoli. Lok Sabha Election: District unit of NIC Chamoli was actively involved in Deployment of Poll Personnel for almost two months for generating various kinds of time-to-time reports. This time, following the guidelines of Election Commission of India, deployment of manpower was much more complicated than earlier elections. However, field Observers of Election Commission were very satisfied with the way the job was performed using NIC developed software. In addition to this, the same activity was performed during Assembly, Gram Panchayat and Nagar Palika elections. Local Area Network (LAN): A LAN (Local Area Network) with Internet facilities comprising 40 nodes connecting almost all the Government departments has been established. Beside these major projects, NIC Chamoli provides IT support to District Planning department, 'Sankhya Patrika' (statistical information about District) and the department of Rural Development. District Informatics Officer A.K. Arya, District Informatics Associate R. Abhilash.