Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has won a State Wide Area Network (SWAN) project from the State Government of Andhra Pradesh (AP), India on a five-year Build, Own, Operate, and Transfer (BOOT) model.
The proposed SWAN project is expected to enable the state government to start and run various e-governance projects and citizen services. This will bring efficiencies in G2G and G2C services of the state, which in turn will help in bringing complete transformation in the e-governance structure. The project will be rolled out in 12 months and TCS will then maintain it for five years.
Sanjay Kumar, managing director of Andhra Pradesh Technology Services, said: “The project envisages connecting state headquarters with 1088 mandals (administrative units) and 23 district headquarters. Once the project is commissioned, the network will enable the AP Government to have video conferencing facility across government offices and enable the government offices to communicate and conference with each other over VoIP (Voice Over IP) phones which will reduce the government phone bills considerably. Various e-governance applications like RTO, healthcare, education, and municipality would also ride this network backbone.”
Tanmoy Chakrabarty vice president and head government ISU, said: “We have previously implemented innovative e-governance projects like NREGS, Arogyashri, APonline and Value added tax for Andhra Pradesh. For APSWAN, we will lay a statewide network of IT infrastructure and set up common service centers for citizens to take advantage of e-governance services delivered at their doorsteps.
“TCS will set up a state-of-the-art network operations centre (NOC) and helpdesk for round the clock monitoring of the facility and services. TCS will bring its world class IT integration capability to establish this information super highway for AP government.”
This is the fourth SWAN project that TCS has bagged. TCS is also implementing SWAN projects in other Indian states – Chattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, and Bihar.
