TLI Staff
New Delhi: Railtel Corporation of India Limited, a CPSU under Ministry of Railways, on Wednesday said that it has bagged an order from the Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd (MPSEDC) for the phase-II of project of expansion of State Data Centre (SDC) and establishment of Disaster Recovery (DR) centre.
The work order is valued at Rs 34.91 crore (excluding GST) which after including GST amounts to Rs 41.19 crore. This order was acquired through open competitive bidding process.
The IT project entails upgradation, commissioning and managing a State Data Centre in MP along with setting up of a Disaster Recovery centre in Madhya Pradesh for a period of five years.
State Data Centre (SDC) is envisioned as the ‘shared, reliable and secure infrastructure services centre for hosting and managing the e-Governance Applications of State and its constituent departments/Organization.
Commenting about the development, Chairman & Managing Director Mr Sanjai Kumar said,“RailTel has been at the forefront of digital transformation journey of its clients. Securing this prestigious project from Government of Madhya Pradesh reaffirms RailTel’s key position in the domestic IT space. The project assumes significance with SDCs emerging as one of the backbones of the core infrastructure required for the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP).”