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Follow UsWhile the Department of Telecom Services (DTS) is setting up control centres as part of the contingency plan for telecom sector, from December 25, 1999 to January 7, 2000, another control room is being set up by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), headquartered in Delhi.
The national level control centre is being set up by DTS at Sanchar Bhavan, New Delhi will be supported by the Telecom Engineering Centre. It will be linked with 22 Telecom Circles/Metro Telecom Districts which in turn will be linked with 322 telecom districts. Simiarly, the one set up by NIC will become operational from 10.00 a.m. on December 28, 1999 and would be in place till 8 p.m. on January 3, 2000 and will be connected to all the control rooms of the 11 critical sectors of banking, aviation etc. The central objective of the NCR is to provide one point information dissemination and management facility regarding state of year 2000 transition in India.
The NCR would be in touch with the control centres of the rest of the world. As New Zealand and Australia are the first countries to experience the transition into the new millennium, the information received from them would be shared with everyone immediately on receipt.
Meanwhile, the Y2K preparedness, including contingency planning and setting up of National Control Room for Y2K, is being reviewed by the Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology. According to the review conducted this morning in a meeting of the Action Force, all the 11 key sectors are Y2K ready and fully geared up to ensure smooth transition into the new millennium. These sectors are Banking and Finance, Insurance, Power, Telecommunications, Railways, Civil Aviation, Ports, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Atomic Energy, Space and Defence.
Also listing the detailed sectoral contingency plans it was stated that all the private sector telecom operators - both basic as well as value added services are Y2K ready. The government sector, i.e. DOT, VSNL, MTNL etc., had become Y2K compliant much earlier on schedule.