NIC Command and Control Centre to boost communication infra

The National Informatics Centre (NIC)'s Command and Control Centre (CCC) and its Centre for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence was inaugurated here on Thursday by Minister for Electronics and IT (MeitY) Ravi Shankar Prasad.

The NIC's Command and Control Centre is the first of its kind in the government and will increase the agility of NIC's nationwide information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, a MeitY statement said.

"In addition to this infra monitoring setup, NIC is also in the process of having a centralised monitoring of critical websites hosted on cloud," it said.

"Additionally, for large critical projects, NIC is proposing to provide users with a customized dashboard where they can monitor resources and availability of their applications."

It also said applications like eOffice, eHospital, Beneficiary Identification System under Ayushman Bharat are already available on this dashboard.

The Centre for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is designed to promote innovation in application of AI to take e-Governance services to the next level, the statement added.

--IANS

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