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Jammu & Kashmir gets a State Data Centre

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BANGALORE, INDIA: A State Data Centre (SDC) the Jammu and Kashmir Government was inaugurated on Thursday.

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The SDC will provide facilities like central repository of the state, secure data storage, disaster recovery and data set of the National Population Register (NPR). This is the first IT infrastructure project commissioned in the state.

"We have set up an SDC for supporting e-governance initiatives in Jammu and Kashmir. The centre has been setup by the IT department under the National e-Governance plan (NeGP)," said Feroz Ahmed Khan, Minister of State for Information Technology.

The SDC will host and manage e-governance application of different departments.

"In the beginning, some departments started work through their own small setup of servers as per their requirement or some kind of storage for their digitized data. But, global safety norms could not be followed in such type of setups. So, the concept of SDC as core infrastructure was evolved under the NeGP for running e-governance activities," Khan explained.