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Himachal State Wide Area
Network (HIMSWAN) project is a revolutionary step towards enhancing good
governance. By setting up HIMSWAN, the State Government intends to
modernize the communication infrastructure in the State to create a
state of the art and reliable network for G2C, G2E, G2B and G2G
interfaces. The Project is aimed at providing HIMSWAN link to Government
Offices and Integrated Community Service Centres at State, District,
Sub-Divisional, Tehsil and Block headquarters in Himachal Pradesh.
The first phase of this
project has been completed. Under this project (HIMSWAN-I) a Local
Area Network has been established in HP Secretariat with the provision of
600 nodes with an ultimate target criterion of atleast 1 PC for 3 officials.
For this purpose a LAN with provision for 620 nodes has been established.
Rs.1.55 crores has been spent during the completion of first phase. The
network has successfully started functioning and Referencing Monitoring
System has been implemented on this network. This network has also been
connected to Internet. This network will be useful in saving lots of energy
and resources.
This state of the art network
in H.P. Secretariat will be useful for all the officials for sharing the
resources and data. The drafts for approval may move up the administrative
hierarchy on the LAN, so that precious time and resources are not wasted in
duplication of effort. Scanners, printers, CD writers etc. also can to be
shared across the network. Big documents will be stored on the PC instead of
taking print outs of even relatively useless pages. So besides making “less
paper” functioning of Govt., this LAN will cater to implementation of
various applications like REFNIC and many more. This will only improve
efficiency.
The Secretariat has to
largely depend on the Directorates for data. The Directorates, in turn, have
to rely on their field offices for these inputs. Therefore, this Local Area
Network of the Secretariat should expand to become a Wide Area Network for
the entire State in the phase-II. Then the instantaneous, accurate and
updated information will be retrieved in the prescribed format. Presently,
the requisite data is received after a couple of months when it has already
become outdated. The IT Department is committed to have this Wide Area
Network in place at the earliest. The HIMSWAN-II project proposal has been
approved by the Ministry of IT, Govt. of India. MIT GoI has sanctioned Rs 50
crores and released first instalment of Rs 10 Crores. In this project HP
Secretariat, Departments, District, Sub-divisional and tehsil offices will
be linked with one another for immediate availability of data for queries
and reports.
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