National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), an organisation with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, is actively engaged in skill development and development of human resources in the area of IT; Electronics; Communications Technologies; Hardware; Cyber Law; Cyber Security; IPR; GIS; Cloud Computing; e-Governance and related verticals. NIELIT is also the preferred agency for many State Governments for rolling out IT Literacy programmes for its employees and the masses.

NIELIT is mandated to undertake various projects under Capacity Building in ICT with the objective of creating human resources at various levels including designing and conducting Employment and Self-employment linked quality and cost effective education /training besides conducting IT Literacy programmes for the masses, especially targeted towards the rural /underdeveloped areas in the country.

Over these 20 years, NIELIT has established itself as a premier organization having PAN-India presence through a network of own centers in 31 cities and a network of about 900 accredited institutions and about 6000 CCC facilitation centers. NIELIT’s own centres are located at Agartala, Aizawl, Ajmer, Aurangabad, Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai, Chuchuyimlang, Churachandpur, Delhi, Gangtok, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Imphal, Itanagar, Jammu, Jorhat, Kohima, Kolkata, Kokrajhar, Leh, Lucknow, Lunglei, Patna, Ranchi, Senapati, Shillong, Shimla, Silchar, Srinagar, Tezpur with its Head quarters at New Delhi. Kekari(Ajmer), Agartala, Aizawl, Aurangabad, Chandigarh, Shimla, Chennai, Delhi, Gangtok, Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Tezpur, Imphal, Itnagar, Kolkata, Kohima, Chuchuyimlang, Patna, Srinagar, Jammu and Shillong, Srikakulam, Leh. Recently NIELIT has opened new Centre at Ranchi in Jharkhand which was inaugurated by Hon’ble Prime Minister. NIELIT is in the process of opening a new Centre at Ropar in Punjab.

The wide repertoire of NIELIT Courses includes: (a) Courses in the Formal Sector, being offered by the NIELIT Centres, in association with State Universities/ Technical Boards; (b) Courses in the Non– Formal Sector, being offered by NIELIT Centres and other training institutions that have been granted accreditation for the purpose; (c) Short Terms skill oriented courses by the NIELIT Centres depending on demographic demands; and (d) Training Programs or Corporate Training programs, which are tailor made programs, based on specific requirements.