State Data Centre Building of State Government’s Information Technology and Bio-technology Department would be inaugurated by Chief Minister Raman singh here in civil lines , on August 14.
Secretary of Information Technology and Bio-technology Department Aman Kumar Singh informed on Tuesday that State Data Centre has been constructed under National E-Governance Scheme for collection of Chhattisgarh's entire integrated data. State Government provided additional amount of Rs 7 crore for construction of this data centre. Chhattisgarh Housing Board utilized this fund to develop a high-tech three-storey building as per the standard parameters for data centre.
He further informed that State Data Centre will play important role in development of infrastructure for e-governance in state. State Government has equipped this data centre with all the basic facilities like electricity, air-conditioners, etc and has arranged for various public utility services like safe data collector, public information and online services, integrated web portal, intranet portal, calamity management, information system, network management etc.
Aman Kumar Singh informed that State Data Centre will collect, operate and maintain the data related to e-procurement, choice centre, state service delivery gateway, police, CHIPS, IIM, public relations, tourism etc. It is noteworthy that under National E-Governance Scheme, Government of India and Chhattisgarh Government have jointly developed the State Data Centre. Mesors 3i Info-tech was made advisor for the project and through transparent tender procedure, Mesors Sify Technologies limited was made agency for the implementation of this project.