National Informatics Centre(NIC), along with IBM, has launched the country's official portal to provide a single-point entry to government information and services.The portal, india.gov.in, based on open standards and service-oriented architecture from IBM, will provide a "single sign-on" facility for government services and information on India besides offering access to over 5,000 websites, Vijayaditya, director general of NIC and R Dhamodaran, vice president and country executive (software group and developer relations) of IBM, said today.The portal can also be used for e-governance projects as well, they added.The portal aims at enhancing features like search, localisation and personalisation of content to suit the diverse requirements of users.NIC and IBM will also work towards ensuring universal accessability of the portal for the physically challenged and those using hand-held devices, they added.
