Type of site | National government portal |
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Available in | English, Hindi |
Owner | Indian government, and private. |
URL | india इंडिया |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Not required |
Launched | 10 November 2005 |
Current status | Active |
india.gov.in, also known as the National Portal of India.[1] is the official web portal of India. It presents information resources and online services from government sources, accessible from a single point.
It is the official portal of the Indian Government, designed, developed and hosted by National Informatics Centre (NIC), an S&T Organisation of the government of India under the aegis of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology.[1]
The portal has been developed as a Mission Mode Project under the National E-Governance Plan of the government.[1] The objective is to provide a single window access to the information and services such as passport, driving licenses, company registration etc. being provided by the Indian government for the citizens and other stakeholders.[1]
India.gov.in has sections for people living abroad, business persons, government employees, senior citizens and children. The portal is also useful to foreign citizen and researchers searching for information on India. It provides details of the people occupying high offices in India, the work completed by ministries, press releases, demographics, tourism, and cultural heritage.[2]
India.gov.in links to Union, State, District and local level official websites and is the most comprehensive portal about the government of India with links to 6,700 government websites.[3] The website also has a feature that customizes the content displayed, based on a user’s individual profile and preferences. It is accessible by disabled people and users of handheld devices.[4]
The portal has an average of around eight lakh (8,00,000) website visitors per month. While most of these visitors are from India, around 28 per cent come from outside India.[5]