The SDC was implemented by the state’s IT growth agency, Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society (CHiPS) as a Shared Service Centre, allowing other state departments to focus on service delivery rather than infrastructure management.
Secretary of the state’s Department of Information Technology and Biotechnology, Aman Singh, said, “The data centre building has been constructed under then national e-governance scheme for collection and integration of Chhattisgarh’s data”.
The SDC is one of the core infrastructure elements under India’s National e-Governance Plan, to be set-up and operationalised in all the states. The Union Government’s Department of Information Technology has made available technical, financial and implementation assistance to the states through a set of guidelines. The Indian Government approved an expenditure of INR 16 billion (US $257 million) for the data centres over a period of five years.
The Chhattisgarh State government contributed INR 70 million (US $1 million) to the construction of the state’s data centre.
The Chhatisgarh SDC will serve to consolidate information from across various state agencies, functioning as a central data repository and secure data storage. The SDC will be connected to the State Wide Area Network (SWAN) through which it will consolidate databases from remote block servers.
The data centre will support a common platform to provide services to individuals and businesses, hosting and managing all e-governance applications of the state. The data centre will host applications including those related to urban administration, procurement, commercial tax, GIS, rural development, land record system, education and financial management.
Additionally, it will also support the state intranet portal, disaster recovery system, remote management and service integration.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Medha Basu
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 20.08.2013
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