The Joint Telematics Group (JTG), the NCC organizer, comprises of faculty in the area of Telecommunications and Computer Networking at the five Indian Institutes of Technology at Chennai, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Mumbai and the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore. The group came into existence as a consequence of a Nationally Co-ordinated Telematics Project run at these Institutes under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The project was initiated during the VII  plan period (1987) basically to create awareness in the country of the ever-expanding horizon due to the confluence of communication and computer technologies, to develop manpower and to carry out R&D in the emerging areas. The JTG in its meeting held on October 18, 1993 at IIT Kharagpur discussed, for the first time, the idea of having an annual conference covering the broad areas of Telematics. It was in recognition of the reality that the work carried out at various institutions in the country in the area of communications and networking had become significant enough to warrent a national conference for presentation of the acquired results.

The JTG decided to organize the annual conference at one of the six Institutes away from the glitters of the five-star culture. The objective/goal was to provide a regular forum for exchange of information on current research and development in the field of telecommunications, signal processing, networking and related areas. It was felt that such an event would provide impetus to workers in the field to further research as well as give directions to R&D activities in the country. The conference would have contributory / invited / keynote lecture presentations as well as tutorials on state-of-art topics. Exposition as well as poster sessions were envisaged. All papers go through a process of review.

The responsibility of organizing the first National Conference on Communications was entrusted to the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. The NCC has been growing in stature right from the beginning and is today recognized as a meet nobody would like to miss. The first cycle of conferences is over.
These were held at:

1. NCC 1995    IIT Kanpur

2. NCC 1996    IIT Bombay

3. NCC 1997    IIT Madras

4. NCC 1998    IISc Bangalore

5. NCC 1999    IIT Kharagpur

6. NCC 2000    IIT Delhi

7. NCC 2001    IIT Kanpur