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Connected Government

Jammu and Kashmir to connect its offices

By Anshupriya Jha | 9 June 2011

In a bid to promote transparency and make data easily available across various departments, the government of Jammu and Kashmir has decided to connect all its offices through broadband cables and wireless links.

Work on the project has already been started and is expected to cost over Rs. 60 crore. It is scheduled to be done by August 2012.

The State will use the country’s most extensively used e-governance project – State Wide Area Network (SWAN) – envisaged to ensure connectivity across departments in each State/ Union Territory. Once implemented, it will give speed, efficiency, reliability and accountability to the entire system of Government-to-Government operations. It will establish a data network providing interconnectivity across departments.

The State government’s Department of Science and Technology would soon ink an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bharat Sanchar Nigan Limited (BSNL). The State-owned telecom service provider would be the designated service provider for the e-connectivity project in the State. It has, in collaboration with the National Informatics Centre (NIC), even made a Detailed Project Report proposing solutions for connecting far-flung areas in the State given the mountainous and uneven terrain of the region.

The project, once completed, would boast of 174 Points of Presence (PoP) – two State-level PoPs, 20 district-level PoPs ans 152 block-level PoPs. These would connect 10 departments under e-governance from the most basic unit (block) to the State-level.

A data cable would run from Chandigarh to connect the two important locations in the State – Srinagar and Jammu — and then to district PoPs and then to block POPs for transmission of data, records, video footages and other documents to deliver speedy and efficient governance.

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