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Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Govt. of India

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The NIC Ladakh and its two districts namely Leh and Kargil were part of erstwhile NIC Jammu and Kashmir before the abrogation of Article 370 from the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The NIC Jammu and Kashmir was established in the year 1988 and by 1989 all the fourteen districts were covered including the two tribal districts of Leh and Kargil. The ICT services are being provided to Administration, Judiciary and Assembly.

Ladakh has become a separate Union Territory as part of Jammu & Kashmir Reorganization Act 2019. The NIC has decided to establish its UT Centre at Leh in the UT of Ladakh to provide ICT support to the Administration of UT Ladakh by undertaking the development and implementation of a number of innovative e-Governance projects thereby enhancing the Government reach to their Citizens. These eGovernance projects are not only making the lives of the citizen easier by taking government services to their doorsteps, but have also made the administration quick, responsive, transparent, hassle-free, and easily accessible.

These eGovernance initiatives cover the entire spectrum of interfaces – G2G, G2C & G2E. Majority of these initiatives are aimed at bridging the digital divide and to extend the many potential benefits of ICT to people residing in remote and far-flung areas of the state, in particular, to improve their social, economic and cultural well-being of the state.

Events

Advisor to Hon’ble LG Ladakh reviewed the NIC developed application for revenue department.

On March 13th 2024, LLaRMA (Ladakh Land Records Management Agency) headed by Dr Pawan Kotwal IAS, Advisor to Hon’ble LG[…]

e-Office Implementation in NISR Ladakh: Meeting of Sh. Mohd Rauf Wani, SIO Ladakh with Dr. Padma Gurmet, Director National Institute of Sowa Rigpa (NISR), Leh Ladakh thereof.

On March 5th, 2024, a meeting convened between the State Informatics Officer (SIO) of NIC Ladakh and Director of the[…]

Implementation of Three New Laws and ICJS

(Meeting of the UT Level Steering Committee on ‘Implementation of Three New Laws in the Union Territory of Ladakh’) Dr.[…]

Swachhta Pakhwada observed in NIC Ladakh UT Centre and its two District Centres.

Swachhta Pakhwada 2024 was observed by NIC Ladakh between 1st to 15th Feb 2024. The Ministry of Electronics & Information[…]

NIC Ladakh observes Sexual Harassment at Workplace Prevention Week (ending 9th December)

NIC Ladakh observed the Sexual Harassment at Workplace Prevention Week (4th to 9th December 2023) to sensitize its officials and[…]

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Helpline Number

Police Control Room: 100
Fire Service: 101
Medical Helpline: 102
Election Helpline: 1950
Women Helpline: 1091

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Who's who

NIC UT Centre

S. No	Name of Officer	Designation	Email	IP Number
1.	Mohammad Rauf Wani	State Informatics Officer (Scientist-F)	rouf[dot]wani[at]nic[dot]in	31101
2.	Punchok Paldan	Scientist-E	punchok[dot]paldan[at]nic[dot]in	31102
3.	Stanzein Sedol	Scientist-B	s[dot]sedol[at]nic[dot]in	31103
4.	Kunzang Dolma	Scientist-B	dolma[dot]kunzang[at]nic[dot]in	31104
5.	Nilza Angmo	Scientist-B	angmo[dot]nilza[at]nic[dot]in	31105
6.	Junaid Ahmed	Scientist-B	junaid.ahmed56[at]nic[dot]in	31106
7.	Showkat Ali	Scientist-B	showkat[dot]ali48[at]nic[dot]in	31107

NIC Leh

S. No	Name of Officer	Designation	Email	IP Number
1.	Tashi Tondup	Scientist-C	tashi[dot]tondup[at]nic[dot]in	31115

NIC Kargil

S. No	Name of Officer	Designation	Email	IP Number
1.	Iftikhar Hussain	Scientist-B	hussain[dot]iftikhar[at]nic[dot]in	31117

Organization Structure

Organization Structure:

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Services

NIC is closely associated with the government in different aspects of governance by establishing a nationwide state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure and services for Central Government, State Governments, UT Administrations, Districts and other Government bodies. It offers a wide range of services which includes multi gigabit nationwide networks NICNET, NKN, National Data Centres, National Cloud, pan India VC infrastructure, Command and Control Centre, multi-layered GIS based platform, Domain Registration and Webcast. This plays a significant role in delivering citizen centric e-services.

Network and Internet

i. 2x1GBPS Connectivity to UT Ladakh (Redundant).
ii. DC Office Leh is provided provided with 1 Gbps Leased Line connectivity and DC Office Kargil is provided with 100 Mbps Leased Line connectivity with a redundancy of 100 Mbps in both the districts
iii. MCU based integration with studios at different directorates, Ladakh Police, district centers, Civil Secretariat, District Courts, university of Ladakh.
iv. NICNET based connectivity has been extended to PHQ Leh-Ladakh and SSP office of Leh and Kargil districts. This also includes the VC based facility.
v. High Speed Internet Connectivity to UT Administration at Civil Secretariat, all Deputy Commissioner offices, District Courts, DIHAR, ITBP, Ladakh Police, University of Ladakh, etc.

Messaging
Email accounts of more than 4000 offices/officers created.

Domain Registration

Providing support in domain registration (ladakh.gov.in) for various websites and portals of UT Administration.

National Knowledge Network

University of Ladakh and DIHAR have been provided high speed internet connectivity from nearest NIC District Centre / NIC J&K NOC.

Video Conferencing

VC facility has been provided at 2 districts HQ, 2 Div Commissioner Offices, Offices of Lt. Governor, Office of Advisor to LG, All the Administrative Secretaries, Ladakh Bhawan, Delhi, Ladakh Police. A total of 25 VC Studios have been established.

Webcast

NIC has been providing live/on-demand webcast services to Central and State Government for important National, International and regional, educational events and conferences. Live webcast services of important events of the region are provided and other important events such as Independence and Republic Day celebrations, Dance and cultural Festivals are covered through live webcast.

Mobile App & Web Development and Hosting Services

NIC Ladakh has been providing support for Mobile Application Development, Website Design, Development & Hosting including domain registration security audit, remote publishing.
One UT website, 2 Districts websites, more than 20 other UT Administration organizations.
GIGW and WCAG 2.0 compliant Websites.

NIC Ladakh is extending support for hosting of websites and applications at:

1 NIC J&K State Data Centre.

2 J&K, UT State Data Centre.

3 National Data Centre, New Delhi.

Infrastructure

NIC Ladakh UT Centre:

NIC Ladakh has secured a space within the secretariat premises of 600sq ft. (appx.) for setting up the NIC UT unit. The allocated office space has undergone necessary repairs and refurbishment. Currently, the officers (SIO and Scientist- B) have occupied the designated space.

NIC Ladakh is having its District Centers at 2 District Headquarters and also having the offices at following locations:

S. No	Name of Office & Address	Phone Numbers
1.	NIC Ladakh UT Centre 2nd Floor, Main Civil Secretariat, Leh, Ladakh Pin – 194101	01982-251010
2.	NIC District Center, Leh, Deputy Commissioner’s Office Complex, Near Pologround, Leh, Ladakh, 194101	01982-252632
3.	NIC District Center, Kargil, Deputy Commissioner’s Office Complex, Baroo, Kargil, Ladakh, 194103	01983-232793

Network Infrastructure
Core of NICNET backbone is fully upgraded to multiple 10 Gbps capacity with sufficient redundancy. States are connected through multiple 1/10 Gbps links and districts 34/100 Mbps links with redundancy built at State and District links. Last mile redundancy for NICNET has been extended to more number of districts, with primary link from BSNL and secondary links from Railtel/PGCIL. Most of the Bhawan links at Delhi which were on 34 Mbps are upgraded to 100 Mbps and those on 100 Mbps are upgraded to 1Gbps.

Direct peering of NICNET with BSNL, PGCIL and Railtel are completed at Delhi and Hyderabad for saving Internet Bandwidth and faster access of each other’s Network and Data Centre. Peering with Google, Microsoft and Akamai Content Delivery Network has facilitated faster access to Google services and other important International web sites. Re-structuring of Videoconferencing network has enabled to minimize delay and handle large scale important video conferencing such as PRAGATI of Hon’ble PM, GST Council Meetings by Hon’ble FM etc.

High speed Internet services are provided to national data centres to ensure that the applications hosted are accessible to users across the globe with minimum latency. Capacity planning and upgradation of Internet Gateway at regular interval has been undertaken to provide smooth Internet access to all NICNET users throughout the country. To maintain accurate timing and synchronization of all network elements and servers on the network Stratum-1 clocks are installed at Delhi and Hyderabad.
NIC VSAT Network NICNET has been offering satellite based VSAT Network services over Ku-band VSATs for providing Data and Video application.
NIC is also providing satellite bandwidth from NICNET pool for delivering e-governance services to VSATs of various projects of central/state government departments such as Rural, Taxation, Treasury, Finance, Health and Food supplies in geographically difficult locations where terrestrial connectivity is either not available or reliable. For running the VSAT services, NIC has leased transponder bandwidth from DoS/ISRO on the GSAT-18 satellite.

MCU based integration with studios at different directorates, Ladakh Police, district centers, Civil Secretariat, District Courts, University of Ladakh.
NICNET based connectivity has been extended to PHQ Leh-Ladakh and SSP office of Leh and Kargil districts. This also includes the VC based facility.
High Speed Internet Connectivity to UT Administration at Civil Secretariat, all Deputy Commissioner offices, District Courts, DIHAR, ITBP, Ladakh Police, University of Ladakh, etc.

NKN

NKN empowers Digital India, as it is the primary backbone for all e-Governance initiatives in the country. It is the only network globally, that carries R&E, Internet and e-Governance traffic as independent verticals under one umbrella. NKN has multiple 10G links that are combining a core bandwidth of close to 1000G, providing secured and highly resilient connectivity across major Institutions for research, education and e-Governance.

NKN has a strong backbone connectivity with 31 Points of Presence (PoPs) in various State Capitals and 92 core links connected with meshed topology. Moreover, currently over 700 Gigabits (reaching a peak of 5 Petabytes) of data is flowing within the NKN backbone every day. Over 40 links (premium Institutes, SDC (State Data Centres) & SWAN of many states) have been upgraded to 10 Gbps. NKN has also established a High Capacity SCPC VSAT Connectivity at Kavarati, Lakshadweep and Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Island.

i. University of Ladakh
ii. DIHAR
Have been provided high speed internet connectivity from nearest NIC District Centre / NIC J&K NOC.

Video Conferencing

Video conferencing facilitates direct interaction with concerned stake holders and save time & Money.Videoconferencing services are being used for monitoring of various Government Projects, Schemes, Public Grievances, monitoring of law and order, Hearings of RTI cases, Tele-education, Tele-medicine and Launching of new schemes etc.NIC’s VC services are being extensively used by Hon’ble Prime Minister, Union Ministers, Governors, Chief Ministers of states, Cabinet Secretary and Chief Secretaries, Chief Information Commissioner and various other senior officials across country.NIC is also providing web-based desktop videoconferencing services to users of various departments of central government & state governments.

In Ladakh, NIC Has extended its VC facility at 2 districts HQ, 2 Div Commissioner Offices, Offices of Lt. Governor, Office of Advisor to LG, All the Administrative Secretaries, Ladakh Bhawan, Delhi, Ladakh Police. A total of 26 VC Studios have been established.

List of 26 VC Studios:

1. Rajniwas Ladakh at Leh
2. Rajniwas Ladakh at Kargil
3. LG House, New Delhi
4. Ladakh Bhawan, New Delhi
5. Resident Commissioner, New Delhi
6. Advisor to LG, VC Studio
7. Advisor to LG Chamber
8. Principal Secretary, Revenue/Health
9. Principal Secretary, IT/Education
10. ADGP, Ladakh Police
11. Commissioner/Secretary, GAD/PWD
12. Commissioner Secretary/Divisional Commissioner Ladakh
13. Div Comm Ladakh, Kargil
14. Administrative Secretary, PDD/Sports/Animal
15. Commissioner Secretary, Hr. Edu/Tech. Edu/Information
16. Administrative Secretary, Tourism/Culture/Excise
17. Administrative Secretary, FCS&CA
18. Hon’ble CEC, LAHDC Leh
19. Hon’ble CEC, LAHDC Kargil
20. Deputy Commissioner/CEO, LAHDC Leh
21. Deputy Commissioner/CEO, LAHDC, Kargil
22. DC Conference Hall Leh
23. Director, Accounts & Treasuries, Ladakh
24. NIC District Unit Kargil VC Studio
25. SSP Leh
26. SSP Kargil