Health of e-Gov in Rajasthan
[This article was published in the April 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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Mohali
Mohali will soon get a State Data Centre (SDC), one of the key Information Technology infrastructure elements being created in Punjab. It will provide a safe data storage facility. Punjab Information Technology Minister, Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon laid the foundation stone of the INR 12 crore project at Industrial Focal Point, Phase VIII-B, in Mohali.
Haryana Links 1400 Offices with SWAN
Haryana Government has succeeded in linking 1,400 government offices of various departments through State Wide Area Network (SWAN).
It’s time for a beta
[This article was published in the January 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
All the e-Governance cogs have been put up; now the testing phase can
Powering the Government Projects : Pratik Chube, Country General Manager – Product Management and Marketing Emerson Network Power (India) Pvt. Ltd.
How is your company catering to the needs of the government in its mission of State Data Centre creation across the country?
Penetrating into government infrastructure for building State Data Centre, SWAN and other e-Governance processes are more or less similar to working with SMEs.
Competent to Handle SDC! : Rajesh Verma, Principal Director, Department of Information Technology, Government of Sikkim
Please give your views on the importance of Data Centres in the States. How do you correlate this technological intervention with good governance?
It is important to have a Data Centre in the states, as it would enable having a central repository of all databases and is very important in the present scenario.
Gujarat: Among First to Setup SDC in India : Neeta Shah, Director (e-Governance), Gujarat Informatics Centre, Government of Gujarat
Challenges in setting up of Data Centres starts as soon as you start looking out for the right place. It is important that the Data Centre is setup at a location which is not disaster prone, can be physically secured, robust surveillance and capability of post activity data analysis and has room for growth. Other challenges to be kept in mind while setting up of DC are sizing of storage.
BSNL to provide bandwidth for OSWAN
BSNL would provide bandwidth services for the implementation of Orissa State Wide Area Network (OSWAN) project, being taken up at a cost of INR 200 crore under the National e-Governance Plan.
VoIP Phones Services in Bihar
One of the biggest benefit that Bihar is receiving through its setting up of statewide area network (SWAN) and secretariat local area network (SecLAN) is the use of VoIP (voice over internet protocol). VoIP phones have allowed free of cost phone connectivity among different government offices. Offices of ministers, departmental secretaries and other senior officials in the state capital have been fitted with VoIP phones.
Govt to Invest INR 20,175 Cr. in e-Governance Projects
Centre has decided to invest INR 20,175 crore for as many as 27 projects under its National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) in the next four years.
