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project in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ6955284
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NSDG (National e-Governance Services Delivery Gateway) is one of India's Mission Mode Projects (MMP). The initiative taken by the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications & IT. CDAC Mumbai has been entrusted with building of NSDG and NSD (National Services Directory).

NSDG (National e-Governance Services Delivery Gateway) is a standard based messaging middleware for e-Governance services. This is classified under Integrated MMP (Mission Mode Projects) of Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India under NeGP(The National e-Governance Plan) and is the Second Mission Mode Project to enter operational phase starting from 14 August 2008. Apart from many path breaking innovations that NSDG has undertaken itself and the ambitious objective it has embarked upon, NSDG is probably the only one which has won its first appreciation three months before its golive. NSDG won The World is Open Award 2008 in the e-Governance category at The World is Open Award 2008 function organized by Skoch Consultancy Services and Red Hat. The solution is already ready and the Go-Live date is 14/08/08.

The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of the Govt. of India aims to cooperate, collaborate and integrate information across different departments in the Centre, States and Local Government.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, NSDG, project and India is the immediate research focus.
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