Hon’ble Prime Minister Sh.Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurated the ‘Vidyavahini’ project through Video-Conferencing on 11th June,2003. Also present at the event were Sh.Arun Shourie, Hon’ble Minister of Communications &IT, Sh. R.R Shah, Secy(DIT) and Dr. N. Vijayaditya, DG (NIC). During the conference the PM interacted with Chief Ministers of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand and the State IT and Education Ministers of West Bengal and UP. The Vidyavahini project will connect 60,000 schools - either run by Government or funded by it - through internet and intranet to bring Information Technology to the classroom.
It was a beginning of new era in the IT history of Uttaranchal when Hon’ble Chief Minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari dedicated the Videoconferencing Network, established with technical support of NIC, to the public on 29th May 2003. On this occasion, he congratulated the team of NIC and appreciated the efforts put by their officers at all levels. He told that before dedicating this network to the public, he himself performed a number of test sessions with district officials at remote district headquarters of the state. He was happy to inform to the representatives of public, listening to him at all district headquarters of the state through VC network, that after adoption of this state-of-the-art technology, he would be able to interact with them more frequently through Videoconferencing, even sitting at remote places.