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Guidelines, templates, security norms, Service Delivery Gateway
certification, etc.) Government services should be seamlessly integrated across
o Awareness workshops, training programmes and departments or jurisdictions to provide easy and a single
migration support for cloud adoption by window access to all citizens. It will reduce the time and
Departments efforts involved in various approvals, clearances, etc. It
would also ensure transparency in the system. In order to
o MeghRaj (GI-Cloud) service Directory meet the objective of seamless integration across the
o Setting up of Clouds by other Government entities departments, architecture of the application should be
designed in a way that interfaces with other systems may
Achievements be built whenever required.
The first National Cloud implemented by NIC is already
being used by more than 1115 applications of Government e-Sangam: N ational Service Delivery Gateway (NSDG) is
Departments. NIC Cloud can be accessed using the following Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based constellation of
link: https://cloud.gov.in/ National and State e-Governance Service Delivery
Gateways, with an objective to provide a standardized
Initiatives under Digital India Program hosted on interfacing and seamless message exchange among various
National Cloud include: Government portals as front-end service access providers,
back-end service providing departments and domain
• Digital India Portal
gateways. e-Sangam enables seamless integration of
• Digital Locker department applications and provides a framework for
• Digitize India single point delivery of e-Governance services of services
delivered by heterogeneous departments.
• Make-in-India
• Skill Development Achievements
• Smart Cities • 507 services registered in the production environment
of NSDG;
• Online Registration System (e-Hospital)
• UMANG integration with e-Sangam for UT of J&K
• Aadhaar based Biometric Attendance of Government services completed;
employees
• Average monthly transaction for the year 2019: 7.9
• Jeevan Pramaan - service for pensioners lakh.
• MyGov - largest citizen engagement platform of the
Government National Knowledge Network (NKN)
National Knowledge Network (NKN) is an innovative cutting-
The e-Gov Appstore under GI Cloud can be accessed using edge secured & resilient network, which provides a
the link http://apps.gov.in/. centralized high-speed digital connectivity backbone for
research & education institutions and Government
MeitY has empaneled 12 Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) for Organisations spread across India.
a variety of Cloud deployment models (Public Cloud, Virtual
Private Cloud, and Government Community Cloud) and NKN was approved in March, 2010 by Government of India
with National Informatics Centre (NIC) as the implementing
Cloud Service offerings (IaaS, PaaS & SaaS). The empaneled agency. Aligned with its objective since its approval, NKN
CSPs are Microsoft Corporation (India) Private Limited, Tata has been progressively interconnecting all institutions of
Communications Limited, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited higher learning and research with high-speed network in
(BSNL), ESDS Software Solutions Private Limited, Net Magic order to create a backbone ecosystem for knowledge
IT Services Private Limited, Sify Technologies Limited, CtrlS sharing and collaborative research.
Data Centre Limited, Cyfuture India Private Limited, Web
Werks India Private Limited, AMAZON Internet Services Pvt. NKN with its design philosophy to Encourage, Enable, Enrich
Limited, NXTRA Data Limited and Reliance Corporate IT and Empower the user community is enabling and
Park Ltd. The current status of the audit and the contact empowering the implementation of “Digital India” by
details of the empanelled CSPs can be accessed using the supporting and providing connectivity to various endeavours
link http://MeitY.gov.in/content/gi-cloud-meghraj. of the Government of India in the field of e-Governance. R

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