The task of creating the data centre has been given to the Tata Consultancy Services which said the centre will be operational within six months. An agreement to create the data centre was signed between the Uttar Pradesh Development Systems Corporation (UPDESCO) and the TCS in Lucknow on Friday.
To be created with a budget of Rs 19.9 crore, the SDC will support all e-governance initiatives in Uttar Pradesh. It will be established at the Computer Bhawan at Sarojini Naidu Marg in the state capital and will be operational within six months. So far, the state government was using the data centre run by the National Informatics Centre (NIC-UP) for all e-governance initiatives like digitisation of land and revenue records and providing of services like online registration and applications for certificates.
The Principal Secretary (IT), Chandra Prakash, said, “We have already implemented a host of e-governance initiatives like the e-district project, Common Service Centres (CSC) and State-Wide Area Network (SWAN) system. But there is a need for a data centre to maintain the records of these services. The NIC data centre supported only 60 services but with the number of e-services increasing, we need a bigger centre.”
Prakash said that since the implementation of the e-district programme under NeGP in UP from 2008, 2.5 lakh services through village-level CSCs and 20 lakh through district-level CSCs have been offered. Currently, 6200 CSCs function in the state and will have 17,707 by November 2011.
“The CSCs have checked corruption as people can now apply for certificates directly from their village and don’t have to make several rounds to the district headquarters. Also, since everything is online, we can keep note the day of the application and disbursement. If any official delays the process, then there is a provision for penalty as well,” said Prakash.
The e-district project was being implemented in six districts in a pilot phase and from December 30, it will be implemented all over the state.
The head and vice-president of the TCS, Tanmoy Chakrabarty, said the SDC will be used for secure data storage, online delivery of services, citizen information portal, state intranet portal, remote management and disaster recovery. “We will make the centre operational within next six months and the duration of the project is five years,” said Chakrabarty.
The data centre will also be a major tool for keeping digitised records of each and every person at the village level. Narendra Kushwaha of UPDESCO said, “Since every villager is getting one service or the other like ration-card or income certificate, we will be putting all the records online. And slowly, we will be able to put the records of each and every village on the net. While the SDC will be a centralised bank, the districts and the departments like Rural Development, Revenue, Social Welfare and others are free to publish this data on their websites. To ensure transparency, the data will be available on public domain.”
States like West Bengal, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka have already established their SDCs which will be connected with the National Data Centre to be set up at New Delhi by the Centre.
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Quelle/Source: Indian Express, 04.12.2010
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