On 8th of March, NIC Madhya Pradesh organized a state level workshop on National Portal of India in close coordination with Department of IT, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh under the chairmanship of Chief Sectary of the State, Sh. R.C Sahni. Other delegates who talked about the services being provided by National Portal include Sh. Arvind Joshi, Principal Secretary (IT), Sh M.Vinayak Rao, SIO and Smt. Alka Mishra from National Portal team at NIC HQ. The presentation was appreciated by the Chief Secretary who insisted that Madhya Pradesh should be pioneer State in utilization of National Portal, by expanding web presence & promoting scope of citizen centric information He also emphasized the importance of timely availability of quality information/services on the Portal with regular data updation. Another workshop on the National Portal of India was organized by NIC Kerala in January at Trivandrum under the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary to Government of Kerala (Higher Education) Sh. P.J Thomas IAS. Other delegates, who participated in the workshop, included Special Secretary IT Sh. Jyotilal IAS, NIC Kerala SIO Sh. V. S. Raghunathan and Dr. Vishwas Mehta IAS (Principal Secretary, Health) who all emphasized the importance of the quality of the data rather than the volume of data in a government portal. Smt. Asha Varma, NIC Kerala and Ms Alka Mishra, NIC HQ demonstrated the Content Management Interface of the India Portal.