Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, NIC, made a visit to NIC Chandigarh UT Unit on 3rd April 2019 to review the progress of ongoing operations. Shri Navneet Kukreja, DDG & Head, NIC Network and Mini Cloud Centre and Shri Vivek Verma, SIO, Chandigarh UT, provided her with the complete status and targeted milestones of the upcoming project, NIC Network and Mini Cloud Centre. DG also chaired a meeting with NIC Chandigarh UT Officers wherein Shri Vivek Verma briefed about the ongoing projects and support being provided to Chandigarh Administration by NIC in all the ICT initiatives. In an encouraging interaction, DG gave important suggestions to overcome challenges and improve upon the systems. Discussing about the Network & Data Centre Services being provided by the Unit, which is also serving as a State Data Centre, she emphasized the importance of cyber security and advised to check for qualitative improvement and perform regular analysis. In her concluding address, Dr. Neeta Verma motivated the team to put in efforts to identify projects that could be standardized and replicated nationwide, and she also suggested to tap emerging technologies.