New Delhi : The National Informatics Centre had placed the Union Budget 97-98 and Economic Survey'97 on the Internet through its World Wide Web server to be accessed by people all over the World. The same was also made available through NICNET for the benefit of the Government Officers and others in remote districts of India.
The Budget documents were released on Internet soon after the speech of the Finance Minister. The Budget documents released were Budget Highlights; Budget Speech; Budget at a Glance; Annual Financial Statement; Memorandum explaining the provisions in the finance bill. Subsequently, during the same day Customs & Excise Notifications was also released. All this was done by NIC Officials in the security zone in North Block. Similarly completed document of Economic Survey was converted into HTML format and placed on Internet.
The Budget was put on three servers in NIC, Headquarters and was mirrored on to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu servers also. The different Units of NIC worked in close harmony to successfully put approximately 600 pages of the aforementioned data of the Budget Document on Internet. The Budget 97-98 page can be accessed through the following URL: http://indiabudget.nic.in/ http://www.nic.in/indiabudget http://www.nic.in/finmin
Besides placing these documents on Internet for world wide access the same was also put on NICNET. The Economic Survey was put on NICNET after it was tabled in the Parliament. The Budget Highlight; Speech Part A&B and Budget at a Glance were put on NICNET after the speech of the Finance Minister. This was captured by all NIC's State Informatics Officers and handed over to Chief Secretary and Senior Officers of the State.
The Customs and Excise Notifications were also put on NICNET and mailed to Collectors and NIC's District Information Officers.