To have first hand experience of NIC's ICT-Potential for enabling IT-lead development of social masses, Hon'ble Minister of State IT, Government of India, Sh. Sachin Pilot visited NIC-HQ on Friday 25th September 2009. Brief presentation about the on-going live applications run by NIC; on nation-wide basis, was made through Video Conferencing by few State Centres and Heads of Division of NIC-HQ. During this visit, Hon'ble MoS had shown keen interest about those applications and suggested normative alignment of implementation strategies, for ensuring focused output which would be more relevant and meaningful for the masses. Sh. Sachin Pilot was quoted saying during his visit, “Very impressive set of people and equipment which is making us all proud of NIC. My best wishes to the team.”