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Efficient Governance Through Information Technology The FTK-CIT at Jamia Millia Islamia University is continuously striving to provide better and modern IT services to students, research scholars, teaching staff, and non-teaching staff of the University. Management of internet, email system, Jamia’s Management Information System, website, and Campus Area Network are some of the popular services provided by the Centre By Prof Z H Khan
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stablished in 1985 as a Computer Centre, it took more than fifteen years to transform the FTK-Centre for Information Technology to a modern Information Technology Centre. The end of the twentieth century saw amazing developments in ICT, which was echoed globally. In view of this and also keeping in view the changing role and additional responsibilities of the Computer Centre, it was renamed as Centre for Information Technology (CIT) in 2002. During the last ten years,
the Centre has come a long way to become the hub of IT services in the University. Regular IT training programmes, workshops and conferences conducted by the Centre have played a major role in capacity building of the University staff and also faculty members of other universities and colleges. Since 2003, the Centre is called as FTK-Centre for Information Technology (FTK-CIT), deriving its prefix from the name of the Chancellor of the University, Mr Fakhruddin T Khorakiwala, owing to his great
commitment and support for the Centre. Today FTK-CIT offers its services to the staff and students of the University through a campus area network of more than 3,500 nodes.
Activities of the Centre The activities performed by the Centre are very critical for the functioning of the University. Management of internet, email system, Jamia’s Management Information System (JMI-MIS), website, and Campus Area Network
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