DISNIC-PLAN was one among the 27 sectors, based on the recommendations of the District Collectors’ Workshop held at Bhopal, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Imphal and Coimbatore during 1987-88. The Study Group on Information Gap (1989) of the Planning Commission further enriched the programme component. This project has received national level appreciation and was as one of the recommendations of the National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development (1998) The Planning Commission has agreed to revisit DISNIC-PLAN on pilot basis and sanctioned Rs. 15 Crores for its implementation in pilot scale in States and also institutional Linkages with the Department of Geography for ushering in spatial planning. The objective of the DISNIC-PLAN is to formulate “an Informatics Blueprint that covers Villages” for economic and social development, derivation of various development indicators which will act as pointers to understand the development potentials as well as constraints for sustainable development, use of data and sensitization at the lower level spatial units, relevance of geospatial intelligence, research, education, training and extension for micro level planning, institutional linkages and plan of action for implementation etc. The new initiative of DISNIC-PLAN aims at building databases, decision support systems and communication systems to upgrade the production potential of village through ‘circular-flows’ and ‘chain-effect’ to have sustainability of resources, poverty alleviation, empowerment of women, full employment, production system planning, infrastructure planning and habitat planning. A One-day Colloquium was recently organized at NIC HQ in this regard. The participants deliberated upon issues related to strengthening informatics components: viz. information system - spatial and non-spatial, networking, institutional linkages, to encourage “viable societies in rural space”. In order to strengthen these informatics components, various committees have been formed for formulating an approach paper to strengthen the implementation of “IT in Macro-level planning DISNIC PLAN”. To assess the inherent requirement, Regional workshops are underway at Pune, Panajim, Thiruvanathapuram, Madurai, Bhuvaneshwar, Patna, Delhi, and Shillong. Of which, Two Day DISNIC-PLAN Workshops have been successfully completed at Pune, Panajim, Thiruvananthapuram and Madurai in association with the Department of Geography/State Planning Board. The Objective of the Workshops is to come out with an “Informatics Blueprint” that covers Villages (i.e. Informatics for Development Program at the grassroots level in India).