The outbreak of Coronavirus has been declared a public health emergency and the virus has now spread across many countries. India is also not untouched by the outbreak of this pandemic. It has led to an unprecedented challenge for the Central and State Governments to contain the virus.
Government of India along with various State Governments, has undertaken numerous measures to mitigate the risk including building and augmenting required healthcare infrastructure, early identification of infected patients and their contacts, proactive contact tracing and surveillance etc. There has been a need to build and implement a holistic strategy aided by timely information, data and systems.
This could become possible due to dedication of COVID Warriors and by strategically utilising the cutting-edge technologies. National Informatics Centre (NIC) has undertaken significant steps to support the government through its range of ICT solutions and infrastructure capability in monitoring and management of COVID pandemic. Through these technology-enabled services, NIC has successfully created an ecosystem which is supporting the government agencies at all levels in combating the COVID pandemic.
I am happy that, in this challenging time, NIC has substantially proved its strength of being a pioneer ICT organisation by implementing various ICT initiatives and supporting the government in effectively rendering citizen-centric services. I convey my best wishes to NIC in this journey.