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(From L-R) Chief Secretary, Pankaj Kumar, Joint Secretary, GoI, Sanjiv Mittal, minister Paiwang Konyak and chief minister, TR Zeliang seen at the launch of NII at Kohima on Friday.[/caption]
Kohima, Jan. 6: With the commissioning of the first National Information Infrastructure (NII) project at Peren district today, Nagaland has become the first state in the country to be ready for implementation of ICT infrastructure.
A programme to launch the project was held at the conference hall of Civil Secretariat with chief minister, TR Zeliang as chief guest and joint secretary (SM), MeitY, government of India, Sanjiv Mittal as the guest of honour.
NII is a part of the Digital India initiative that seeks to integrate the network and cloud infrastructure in the country to provide high speed connectivity and cloud platform up to panchayat level. Every recognised village under Peren district and administrative headquarters would be provided with free high speed wireless connectivity.
Though the project is presently under implementation, it plans to do the pilot fully on wireless including backbone connectivity from Peren district to the state capital, Kohima. The planned pilot in the state covers 7 blocks, 89 Gram Panchayats (GPs) and 311 government offices till GPs in Peren district, the task of deploying infrastructure has been fully accomplished.
According to Mittal, the pilot in the state was altogether a different technologically from 6 other states selected, as it was provisioning wireless connectivity under the district due to its topography as laying of NOFN would consume more time.
He assured that the pilot project in the state has ring topology over wireless for 100% connectivity. The backbone created would serve 13 hops and distance between any 2 hops ranges from 10-20 kms.
Mittal said it was now possible to give connectivity of 10 Mbps to 20 Mbps at each GPs and would suffice to meet the demand. He hoped that the state would fully harness the infrastructure created and deliver various services online at GPs level.
Meanwhile the state is said to have been ready with delivery of various G2G and B2G services. Officially launching the project, TR Zeliang congratulated the department of IT&C for putting Nagaland at the ‘forefront of e-Governance.’
He also requested Mittal that this pilot project should not only cover Peren district but all the districts of the state. Zeliang stressed on the need to carry the message of transparency to the people, possible only through connectivity.
Minister for IT&C, P Paiwang Konyak said the department’s aim was nothing less than making the state of Nagaland the next IT hub in South East Asia.
He informed that the department was taking up various initiatives such as enterprise architecture, wifi hotspot, aerial OFC, eNaga village, e-Governance Academy of Nagaland etc, and hope that in a few years time, Nagaland will be known as the land of ‘e-Governance’.