Haryana State to build new Data Centre

Haryana State, in northwestern India, will build a new Data Centre as part of its plans to implement the National e-governance Plan. The project is awaiting a go ahead from the central government with a proposal prepared by consultants PWC, to the Government of India and the approval is expected to come by the end of this month. The state data centre will be developed and maintained by a private company in collaboration with Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation (Hartron). It will act as the main data centre where all the state government departments for data storage. The facility will have a 35 rack storage capacity which will be sufficient to store data for the next 10 years and the capacity may be scaled up in future.