Challenges always bring changes in attitude!!! With this mantra india.gov.in is marching ahead, making lives of India's citizen easier day-by-day. india.gov.in has been recently awarded at the eIndia 2009, under the e-Governance category for Government to Citizens (G2C) Initiative of the year. Launched in 2005, india.gov.in has given a new dimension in governing nations and enhancing citizen services by making the process of governance and public administration much more efficient and effective. india.gov.in is an effort to provide the Indian citizens and other stakeholders with easy online access to government benefits and assistance programs as it promotes Government-to-All interface (G2A) encompassing fundamental interaction between Government to Citizen (G2C), Government to Business (G2B), Government to Employee (G2E) and Government to Government (G2G). The Portal has been built from the 'users' or 'citizens' perspective, rather than from the perspective of the government. In other words, instead of presenting and categorising the information and services on the basis of government departments, information is presented in a manner citizens would like. This bilingual (English and Hindi) portal can be personalised by its users and follows a uniform navigation style. india.gov.in is India's one of the most prestigious effort and has been sculpted by National Informatics Centre (NIC). Some of the major initiatives under the ambit of the National Portal are: Ø http://bharat.gov.in: The hindi version of the National Portal. Ø http://business.gov.in: Caters to every intricacy required by the business community. Ø http://web.guidelines.gov.in: Defines the guidelines for Indian Government websites, which have been adopted by DARPG for compliance in the websites of Ministries/Departments/States. Ø http://www.india.gov.in/cfw: Guides on the Content Framework to be followed in order to ensure uniformity in access and seamless integration of services for the citizens. Ø http://egreetings.india.gov.in: A dedicated portal to send e-greetings for Indian festivals. Ø http://spf.india.gov.in: Provides guidelines, standards and architectural best practices to be followed for implementing and operating State Portals with respect to information/content, user interface and technology. india.gov.in is a powerful tool that not only offers citizen services and information through a central point of access in cyberspace, but also offers downloadable forms, government documents, Legislative Acts/ Rules, services both transactional as well as informative through a unified and logically central portal. Presently there are about 7000 Documents, over 4000 Forms, approximately 1498 Services, 1357 Acts, 1033 Announcements, 996 Contact Directories, 825 Schemes and 815 Rules published on the Portal. The Portal has more than 55,000 registered users and gets over 27 million hits per month pour in from all corners of the world, which gives a clear picture of the popularity of the Portal. india.gov.in embraces the Accessibility standards and evaluates the Portal on a regular basis, increasing the opportunity for all citizens to access information over the Internet and is maintained by professionals trained in the area of assistive and information technology. The Portal complies with W3C standards of WCAG 2.0 level A. With this india.gov.in ensures interoperability and uses best technical approach like use of mark-up language cascading style sheet, use of scripting languages etc.