Being amongst the front-runners to implement the National e-governance Plan, Haryana is ready to take the last step towards IT infrastructure development in the form of state data centre. The project, which is likely to catalyze an investment of about Rs 50 crore, is awaiting a go ahead from the central government.
?We have already submitted the ?Request for Proposal? prepared by our consultants- PWC to the Government of India and the approval is expected to come by the end of this month,? V S Kundu, special secretary & director IT, Haryana told FE.
Thestate data centre will be developed and maintained by a private company in collaboration with Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation (Hartron). It will act as the main data centre where all the state departments will store their data in electronic form for their own use, as well for making it accessible to the general public. Kundu further added, ?The data centre will have a 35 rack storage capacity which will be sufficient to store data for the next 10 years and the capacity may be scaled up in future as per the requirement.?
Haryana has done considerable work in setting up the State Wide Area Network (SWAN), Common Service Centres (CSCs), eDisha etc. These initiatives will help make rural areas IT enabled. SWAN in Haryana, known as ?ADHAAR? has been established to provide a dependable and secure communication corridor between the state headquarter, district headquarters and block and tehsil headquarters. ?We have spent over Rs 100 crore on SWAN project. Funded by the central government, it is already operational in the state. Even the Common Service Centers (CSC) scheme is under implementation whereby about 1,159 rural CSCs and 104 urban CSCs are being set up for delivery of various ?business to citizen? and ?government to citizen? services at the door step of the citizens,? he said.
?Trial runs on pilot basis for the ?Government to Citizen? services were undertaken in Gurgaon and Rohtak and now they are being conducted in Hisar and Ambala. Following this, the services will be launched in the entire state. For Business to Citizen services, Hartron has roped in private agencies namely- 3i technologies for Gurgaon division, Comat & Hughes for Rohtak and Sarc Systems & Jac Software for Hisar and Ambala divisions,? Kundu added.
The CSCs would provide various services like providing computer education, information on land records, payment of bills, mobile phone vouchers, telemedicine etc.
The companies would also be providing the micro banking and credit facilities through tie-ups with banks.