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From the S
From the Statestates

JharKhand State

Enabling Digital Transformation in Governance

Through Cloud Infrastructure

Edited by Dr. DIBAKAR RAY

ince its inception in 2000, NIC Jharkhand State Building Construction, Cooperative, Jharkhand
Centre has been taking tremendous strides Education Project Council, Shri Krishna Institute of
Sin providing various ICT-based solutions for Public Administration, and various Microservices
service delivery to citizens in the State enabling for different districts of the state.
convenience and transparency. NIC State Centre
provides ICT solutions for the Government to National Knowledge Network (NKN)
NKN Point of Presence (PoP) was set up at
deliver schemes for the upliftment of the poor Yojna Bhawan, Nepal House Complex, Jharkhand.
and underprivileged. Many eGovernance projects All 24 NIC district centres are connected to
were implemented which in effect eliminated the PoP through 1 Gbps / 100 Mbps / 34 Mbps
both the middle man and the pilferage of precious links through NKN / NICNET approved service
resources.
providers. Additionally, 19 research and 9
educational institutes are connected to NKN and
ICT Initiatives in the State NMEICT through a 1 Gbps link or 100 Mbps link.

Jharkhand Mini Data Centre Web Hosting Services / Cloud Services
NIC Jharkhand houses a mini data centre NIC Jharkhand State Centre NIC provides web hosting and cloud services
comprising 10 racks with 34 physical servers has been providing various to various State and Central Government
running 145 virtual machines catering to 45 departments. The solution involves the design,
different user departments for their hosting ICT support and services for planning, implementation, management and
services. Some of these services are Excise, various Government Departments monitoring of the cloud infrastructure. Services
Election, Land Records, Education, Planning, offered are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
District Administrations, Judiciary and Platform as a Service (PaaS) with various
predefined Windows and Linux templates along
and Public Sector Undertakings with Application and Database Fine Tuning,
at multiple levels. This includes Server Hardening, Backup and Restore services.
Deepak Kumar Cloud services, Networking, Video Video Conference Services
Senior Technical Director NIC Jharkhand provides VC services to Raj
& SIO (Jharkhand) Conferencing, Consultancy, Training, Bhawan, CM office, and other Government
deepak.kr@nic.in Departments to conduct meetings in a secured
Software Development and Project environment. VC services are also provided at
implementation under the umbrella all 24 NIC Districts, District Courts and Central
of the Digital India initiative of the Information Centres (CICs) for hearing cases. In
the last year, around 1150 VCs were facilitated,
Rajiv Kumar Sinha Government of India. comprising 1750 VC hours.
Senior Technical Director
rk.sinha@nic.in Chancellor Portal
https://jharkhanduniversities.nic.in
Chancellor Portal has been developed and

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