NIC participated in a major way at the IT.Com 2003 held during November 1-5,2003 at Bangalore . The NIC Southern State/UT Units of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry , Kerala and Andaman & Nicobar Islands set up a stall where the features, implementation status and the impact of several e-Governance projects were demonstrated online, supplemented with audio and video aids. The stall was formally inaugurated by Sh. Rajeev Chawla, Secretary, E-Governance, Government of Karnataka. The State Informatics Officers of all the participating NIC State/UT centers were present at the occasion and made presentations and demonstrations of their respective activities and projects. A brochure of NIC’s activities was also released during this occasion. The NIC stall attracted a large number of visitors including VIPs, Officials from other State Governments, citizens and students from engineering colleges. The Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Information Technology Sh. S.Thirunavukkarasar visited the stall and showed keen interest while appreciating the efforts of NIC in the facilitation of e-governance. The other luminaries who visited the stall included Shri Inamdhar , Hon’ble Minister of Information Technology, Government of Karnataka, Shri Panjan Agarwal, Joint Seceretary, Department of Information Technology, Dr.N.Seshagiri, former Director General of NIC and several senior officials.