Bhubaneswar: The National Informatics Centre will hire 800 professionals in the next one year including 355 cyber security experts, as increased cyber risks globally bring data protection and cyber safety to the centre stage, according to a top NIC official. The hiring will be both at entry and lateral levels, the official added.
The NIC – whose new cloud-enabled National Data Centre (NDC) was inaugurated by IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad here Monday – currently has 4,500 people across India. NIC provides tech support to all governance services and hosts nearly 10,000 websites of the government.
“The NDC in Bubaneswar is of global standards,” Prasad said, adding it will host new as well as existing applications of central and state governments and has an ability to back 35,000 virtual servers.
Emphasising the significance of NDC, Prasad said that in the IT ecosystem, data centre adds to the digital clout of a state or location and raises its global profile. “Data centre is important because data sanctity is important,” he said at a conference here.
The Bhubaneswar unit, NIC’s fourth national data centre after Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune aims to offer round-the-clock service with secure hosting for e-governance applications of ministries and departments.
“With a slew of government apps, including mygov, eWay bill, public finance management system, eHospitals all being hosted by NIC, the demand for computing and storage has increased many folds,” Neeta Verma, director general of NIC, told media here.
Minister for skill development and entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan was also present on the occasion.
An NIC release said the unified and shared infrastructure is flexible enough to rapidly respond to infrastructure requirements and also accommodate future technology enhancements, distributed applications, database applications, virtualised applications and cloud-based applications that are available on demand.
