The central government has migrated around 16.68 lakh official email accounts of ministries and various departments to the cloud-based platform Zoho. About Rs 180.10 crore has been spent so far on this entire project.
Giving information about this, Union Minister of State Jitin Prasad told in Parliament that this initiative has been taken to make government work more secure, faster and effective. He said that in today’s time email has become the most important medium of coordination between administration and departments, hence it was necessary to modernize it.
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Which company got the project?
This cloud platform is being operated by Zoho Corporation, which was selected as the master system integrator. Jitin Prasad said that the company was selected through Government e-Marketplace (GeM) with complete transparency and competition. In the selection process, Proof of Concept (PoC) was also done to check the technical capability of the companies, after which Zoho was given this responsibility.
According to the government, the cost of this project depends on the number of email accounts and their storage capacity. Each email account costs Rs 170 to Rs 300 per month. This price is decided based on mailbox capacity ranging from 30GB to 100GB. This model gives the government the facility to spend as per need.
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Government’s emphasis on data security
The government has made it clear that the control of all government data will remain completely with the Government of India. Also, the services of National Informatics Center (NIC) for official email will also continue. This new cloud system has been implemented with the aim of upgrading the old infrastructure, enhancing security and ensuring better collaboration.
The government believes that this initiative is an important step towards promoting Make in India as well as developing secure and indigenous digital systems in the country. In the times to come, such digital changes can make government functioning more effective.
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