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Puducherry State Wide Area Network (PSWAN)-(IT Initiatives - Status)

  • Opted Option-II of the guidelines of the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT), Government of India. As per this option:
    • NIC is the Network Operator for the initial period of five years plus extended one more year, viz., upto sixth year. From 01.03.2015 onwards the Directorate of Information Technology, Government of Puducherry has taken over the infrastructure from NIC and acting as the Network Operator with the help of FMS personnel deployed through one of the NICSI's empanelled vendor M/s. Wipro Ltd.
    • BSNL is the Bandwidth provider.
    • Puducherry e-Governance Society is the State Implementing Agency for the project.
  • PSWAN Project Implementation Committee was constituted.
  • Bill of Materials were approved and submitted to DIT, MCIT, Govt. of India.
  • Sanction obtained from DIT, MCIT, Govt. of India to the total project cost of ₹ 6.01 crores for the establishment of PSWAN.
  • Vertical Backbone Network connecting UT Centre with the Block Centres through District Centres comprising 12 PoPs was completed.
  • Established 148 Horizontal Connectivity from the PoP Centres to the Government offices.
  • Puducherry State Wide Area Network (PSWAN) was inaugurated by the Hon’ble Chief Minister on 16-12-2009 at 11:00 am in the UT Centre, Chief Secretariat, Puducherry.
  • During Inauguration a multipoint video conference session was organized among the Regional Heads of the outlying regions at Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam. Hon’ble Chief Minister, Hon’ble Minister for Public Works & Information Technology and Hon’ble Minister for Public Health have interacted with the Regional Heads.
  • In Phase-I, prioritized 100 Horizontal Offices were connected and in Phase-II, around 48 additional Horizonal Offices were connected across the UT of Puducherry.
  • Government of India has proposed to implement a new project called National Information Infrastructure (NII) through which PSWAN connectivity can be extended to the left-out horizontal locations, all Government Schools and Colleges, Corporations / Committees. The NII infrastructure may replace the PSWAN infrastructure which includes integration of PSWAN, NKN, NOFN infrastructure.
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