‘NIC developing e-mail server for govt officers’
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is building a massive server to boost capacity vis-a-vis official e-mail usage by central and state government officers, a senior official said on Sunday.
“NIC is developing an e-mail server for the whole government. Today, present e-mail server has kind of already exceeded its capacity. We are now creating a massive email server,” Ajay Kumar, Additional Secretary, Union ministry of electronics and information technology, told PTI here.
“Slowly and slowly, people are being taken onboard onto this email server.”
“We do endeavour to make sure that all government officers use official one (email id).... all government officers, central and state. We will offer this facility to states also.” “Because, when you are using private servers, your data is going outside country, which may be of strategic importance. Therefore, official work should be done on official e-mail servers,” he said. States can have their own official e-mail servers or they can use central servers, the official said.
“NIC is the only agency (which has taken up job)...We have no objection if services due to security reasons. some other agency wants to do it as long “As part of the mandate under the Digital as it is official. NIC is providing a service India programme, government will provide which can be availed,” he said. a secure email service to all its officials
The government had on August 28 for secure communication. As of announced that it will launch e-mail now the service will be offered to five service for its five million personnel in million users. Currently, the user base is English and Hindi in accordance with 1.6 million”, the ministry had said in a the e-mail policy, which bars government statement. employees from using private email