official communications made through email and web using services provided by and from service providers outside the country.

The High Court of Delhi in a writ petition W.P.(C) 3672/2012 K.N. Govindacharya versus Union of India has been particularly concerned and  observed on this, "We are happy that the government has taken these steps to plug any violation of Section 4 of the Public Records Act, 1993, particularly with regard to e-mail communications." So the Department has issued an advisory that All the Ministries/Departments of Central and State Governments should either use e-mail services provided by National Informatics Centre (NIC) or they should use their own e-mail and web services, being fully controlled by them and hosted in India for official communication.