Hon’ble Cabinet Minister for Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution, Sh. Shanta Kumar inaugurated the VC facility at the Ministry Office in Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi on 27th Nov.2001. The dignitaries attending the event included the Secretary, Consumer Affairs, Secretary, FPD and Dr BK Gairola, DDG, NIC. Also an Intranet Website providing link to a number of Web-enabled database applications implemented in the Ministry, was launched during the same programme. With this, most of the items of Minimum Agenda of E-Governance (AR&PG) as well as easy access to sectoral applications, have been completed in the Ministry.