The Hon'ble Union Minister underscores the need to monitor the Cloud & Data Infrastructure of NIC
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Union Minister, Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, inaugurated the Command & Control Centre (CCC) at NIC Headquarters, New Delhi on 10th January 2019, in the presence of Shri Ajay Sawhney, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), Smt. Kiran Soni Gupta, Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor, MeitY & Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, NIC, Shri Pankaj Kumar, Additional Secretary, MeitY, Shri Gopalakrishnan S., AS & FA and JS (Emerging Technologies), MeitY and other senior officers from the Ministry.
NIC has been offering services to the government through its 4 National Data Centres and 30 Mini Data Centres across the country. CCC has been set up keeping in view the requirement of a centralised facility to seamlessly monitor the availability of all these Centres and Cloud Services. It is noteworthy that over 10,000 e-Governance applications are being hosted by these Centres.
In a motivational address, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad dwelt on employing latest of technologies and showed a way forward to accelerate the pace of operations. The Hon’ble Minister said, "Over a period of time, with the spread of Digital India Initiatives, applications have scaled manifold, and there was a need to set up a specialised centre to provide nation-wide view for ICT infrastructure for an effective monitoring and performance management to ensure availability & smooth functioning of all critical services."
The Hon’ble Minister also added, “The new technologies have the potential to transform societies and usher in an era of transparency and efficient governance.”
CCC is providing users with a customised dashboard of Network Management System (NMS) to enable them to monitor their respective applications. NIC is also providing Application Performance Management (APM) through CCC to improve the availability, performance and functioning of critical applications.