President Pratibha Patil has inaugurated Lakshadweep SWAN connecting all 10 sub divisional offices in inhabitated islands with Kavaratti, the capital of Lakshadweep.
Inaugurating the SWAN, Pratibha Patil said, "The SWAN has been implemented in the islands to provide connectivity between government departments and will be a platform for e-Governance and other IT enabled services."
The SWAN will also be used for ensuring a communication channel for disaster management, she added.
The SWAN project will help in improvement of education, health awareness, providing information about the weather, entertainment and news delivery services in all the islands.
The UT is planning to connect all 420 offices connecting 5,000 desktop across all islands by March 2010, Lakshadweep State Informatics Officer KP Mohammed Koya said.
For SWAN project, Lakshadweep administration is spending Rs 15.3 crore. Out of this bandwidth cost comes almost half at around Rs 8.41 crore.
Presently, the SWAN network utilises 2 Mbps bandwidth from Kavaratti to Cochin and all other islands have connectivity of 1 Mbps each. In future, the bandwidth is planned to increase from 2 Mbps to 8 Mbps for Kavaratti and Cochin stretch and 2 Mbps each for all other islands.
All offices will be connected digitally through SWAN and this includes offices, post offices including banks and village dweep panchayats. Presently, applications like ship ticketing, employment exchange, medicine stock, medical appliances monitoring system and electricity billing and inventory will ride on the SWAN network.
Later on e-Payment of ship ticketing and disaster management applications will be loaded on the SWAN network.
People of different islands can now file their grievances online and through videoconferencing it gets resolved by the adminstrator Koya added.
The SWAN project has been implemented by NIC and Lakshadweep IT Society, Department of IT, Lakshadweep.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Pravin Prashant
Quelle/Source: iGovernment, 28.12.2009
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