Govt. to set up fifth national data centre

Govt. to set up fifth national data centre

News:

1. The centre is planning to setup fifth National Data Centres at Bhopal.

Important facts:

2. The National Data Centre at Bhopal will be country’s biggest data centre with a capacity to host five lakh virtual servers.

3. This move will led Centre to expand BPO promotion scheme to 1 lakh seats from the current 48,000 seats.

4. Under the initiative of BPO promotion scheme, 91 BPOs had been set up in small towns and rural areas till now.

5. Other four national data center is situated at Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune.

6. The National Data Centre will be set up by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

7 .The National Data Centre host the government websites, services and applications.

8. Issues:

• Credibility of Data Centre for data analysis.
• Misuse of data

9. In the recent times the issue of data privacy and its protection has become important as the number of Aadhaar has increased from 61 to 121 Crore.