State Data Centre (SDC) is designed for the States to consolidate infrastructure, services and application to provide efficient electronic delivery of G2G, G2C and G2B services. These services can be rendered by the States through common delivery platform seamlessly supported by core Connectivity Infrastructure such as State Wide Area Network (SWAN) and Common Services Centre (CSC) at the village level.
State Data Centre would provide many functionalities and some of the key functionalities include
central repository of the state, secure data storage, online delivery of services, citizen information website, state intranet portal, disaster recovery, remote management and service integration etc.
SDCs would also provide better operation and management control and minimize overall cost of data management, IT resource management, deployment and other costs.
The objectives for SDC are
- Availability of ‘IT Infrastructure’ to State Departments and Agencies
- Higher availability of system and data – 99.74%
- Guaranteed Service Levels
- Efficient & effective management of Information Security related issues
- Centralized and Simplified Management
- Improved quality of Data housekeeping
- Lower risk of data loss
- Better management of security & access control
- Faster Implementation cycle
Department of Information Technology (DIT) has formulated the guidelines to provide technical
and financial assistance to the states for setting up state data centers. These guidelines also include the implementation options that can be exercised by the state to establish the SDC.
The SWAN Scheme for 29 states & 6 union territories was approved by Government of India, in March 2005 to set up State Wide Area Networks (SWAN), interconnecting each State / UT head quarter with district head quarter and below each district head quarter with the block head quarters with minimum 2 Mbps leased line.
This would bring a connected government space which is unprecedented and would bring a paradigm shift in the way the government works for itself and for the citizen. Success of various e-Governance initiatives taken up at the State and the Central level would heavily depend on maximum utilization of SWANs.
