TCS bags 5-year IT project from Andhra

Country’s largest IT firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has won the country’s largest State Wide Area Network (SWAN) project from the government of Andhra Pradesh on a five year Build, Own, Operate, and Transfer (BOOT) model.

This is the fourth SWAN project TCS has bagged in a row. The IT bellwether is also implementing SWAN projects in Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, and Bihar.

The proposed project will enable the government of Andhra Pradesh to start and run various e-governance projects and citizen services. This will help the government to transform its e-governance structure. The project would be rolled out in 12 months. TCS has the mandate to maintain it for five years.

“The project envisages connecting state headquarters with 1088 mandals and 23 district headquarters. Once the project is commissioned, the network will enable the AP Government to have video conferencing facility across government offices and enable the government offices to communicate and conference with each other over VoIP (voice over IP) phones,” said Mr Sanjay Kumar, managing director, Andhra Pradesh Technology Services.

“We will lay a statewide network of IT infrastructure and set up common service centres for citizens to take advantage of e-government services delivered at their doorstep,” said Tanmoy Chakrabarty, vice president and head, government ISU, TCS.