About the Portal:

• Many government entities at the Center, State, District and Local levels are providing online services that have made the life of the citizens simpler and have also increased transparency and efficiency.
• These services are provided through multiple websites.
• In order to list these services in a well categorised and searchable interface, National Government Services Portal has been developed under the ambit of India Portal project which is being designed, developed and hosted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
• NIC is a premier ICT organization of the Government of India under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
• The purpose of this portal is to facilitate the listing of online services provided by various government entities under one platform and ensuring standardization with respect to content architecture and classification of services.

History:

• The Portal has been developed as a Mission Mode Project (MMP) under the National e-Governance Plan (NEGP) of the Government.
• The portal was launched in November 2005.

Vision:

• The objective behind the Portal is to provide a single window access to the information and services provided by the Indian Government to citizens and other stakeholders.
• An attempt has been made through this Portal to provide comprehensive, accurate, reliable and one stop source of information about India and its various facets.
• The current Portal is a metadata driven site that links to the other Indian Government Portals/websites for most updated information.

Portal management:

• The content of this Portal is managed centrally by the National Portal Content Management Team from the National Portal Secretariat.
• It is the goal of the management team to continue the enhancement and enrichment of this Portal in terms of content coverage, design and technology on a regular basis.

Categories:

• Education and learning
• Health and wellness
• Electricity, water and local services
• Money and taxes
• Jobs
• Justice, Law and Grievances
• Travel and Tourism
• Business and self-employed
• Births, Death, Marriages and Child care
• Pension and Benefits
• Transport and Infrastructure
• Citizenship, Visa & Passports
• Agriculture, Rural and Environment
• Science, IT and Communications
• Youth, Sports and Culture

Important Abbreviations used in the website:

• BRAF: Bio-informatics Resource and Application facility
• CARE: Centre for Advanced Computing Research and Education
• G2B: Government-to-Business
• G2C: Government-to-Citizen
• G2E: Government-to-Employees
• C-DAC: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
• CEG: Centre for e-Governance
• CMS: Content Management System
• DEA: Department of Economic Affairs
• DOEACC: Department of Electronics Accredited Computer Course
• FIPB: Foreign Investment Promotion Board