Email accounts of 12 lakh Central govt. employees migrated to Zoho
CYBER SECURITY
13 OCTOBER 2025
- Over the past one year, all 12 lakh email addresses of Union government employees, including those of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), have migrated from a National Informatics Centre-based system to a platform developed by Zoho, officials said.
- Zoho is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- A senior official said Zoho’s suite had also been activated to ensure that government employees did not use open source applications to create text files, spreadsheets and presentations.
- Zoho Office Suite was already incorporated in the NIC mail system and “by embracing Zoho’s indigenous office productivity tools, we take a bold step in the Swadeshi movement, empowering India to lead with home-grown innovation, strengthen digital sovereignty, and secure our data for a self-reliant future.”
- Another official added that the domain name of the emails remained the same — nic.in or gov.in — but the host storing and processing the data has changed from NIC to Zoho.
- The National Informatics Centre (NIC), established in 1976, is the technology partner of the Union government and provides technology-driven solutions to it and the State governments.
- NIC provides ICT infrastructure and e-governance solutions that enable digital services across all levels of government.
- Its primary duties include developing and implementing e-governance projects, providing IT consultancy, building digital platforms like DigiLocker and MyGov, offering cybersecurity, and providing IT infrastructure such as data centers and networks
