The National Informatics Centre (NIC) (Hindi: राष्ट्रीय सूचना विज्ञान केंद्र / Rashtriya Suchna Vigyan Kendra) is the premier Information Technology organisation of India's Union Government in informatics services and information-and-communication- technology (ICT) applications. The NIC is a part of the Indian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology's Department of Electronics & Information Technology. NIC is playing a pivotal role in steering e-governance applications in the governmental departments at national, state and district levels across the country, enabling the improvement in, and a wider transparency of, government services. Almost all Indian-government websites are developed / managed by NIC.