The National Panchayat Portal, designed and developed by NIC, contains the portal framework of State PR departments, all 540 Zila Parishads, all 6096 Blocks and all 2,40,000 Village Panchayats, with the website of the Ministry acting as a gateway and homepage to the portal designed to disseminate information to common man. The website of the Ministry presents information on various legislations and policies, guidelines of schemes of the Ministry, circulars, news, status of implementation of Panchayati Raj initiatives across the states etc. The Portal framework of State PR department, ZPs/BPs/VPs has been provided with indicative categorization in the context of functional scope of PRI and could be altered dynamically, as needed along with language, color, fonts and layout settings. The respective stakeholders shall regularly update the content and shall link the portal to already running back-end solutions. While inaugurating the portal during the conference on ‘Introduction of e-Governance in Rural PRIs and Capacity Building’ at Jaipur from 17-19 December 2004, the hon’ble Union Minister for Panchayati Raj Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar said, “If government can extend the reach of ICT and the use of e-Governance at village level, then almost all problems of the PRIs in the country could be solved.”