In the era of e-Governance at grassroots, the relevance of the DISNIC Programme has been felt necessary and hence the Planning Commission has desired to re-establish the DISNIC-PLAN project, with institutional linkages of grassroot level organizations, to provide continuous support to development agencies in districts, during 2004-07. The Planning Commission has agreed to revisit DISNIC-PLAN on pilot basis and sanctioned Rs. 15 crores for its implementation in one district (covering all the blocks), one block (covering all the villages) per State. Institutional Linkages with the Department of Geography will also be provided for ushering in spatial planning. The DISNIC-PLAN new initiative will support building up databases & decision support systems, and communication systems to facilitate: sustainability of resources, poverty alleviation, empowerment of women, full employment, production systems planning, infrastructure planning and habitat planning. A One-day Colloquium in this regard was organized on 5th May, 2004 at NIC HQ which was addressed by Sh M. Moni, DDG (NIC) .The stakeholders and NIC Officers who have vast experience in this area participated and deliberated issues related to strengthening informatics components: viz. information system - spatial and non-spatial, networking, institutional linkages, to achieve “viable societies in rural space”.