Spanco Bags 70 Crore Order For Orissa SWAN

Spanco Telesystems and Solutions has bagged a Rs 70 crore contract for the roll out of a State Wide Area Network (SWAN) to connect over 300 districts/ talukas under the Government of Orissa. Spanco, in tandem with ITI, will ‘build, own and operate’ this network, before transferring it to the State at the end of five years.

As part of the planned National e-Governance Action Plan (NEGAP), this network will provide connectivity to government offices from the state headquarters at Mantralaya down to 30 district collector offices and 284 taluka/ tehsil offices in the state of Orissa. It would serve as the core backbone of the State for its various e-governance applications, citizenship initiatives and diverse IT activities.

The SWAN Project aims at providing a reliable and integrated telecommunications infrastructure catering to high speed and high capacity delivery of voice, data and video transmissions. This will improve the service delivery and response time to the citizens of Orissa enabling quick access to information. It will enable citizens to make various forms of payments and obtain facilities information as well as B2C (business-to-consumer) services from a single location using state-of-the-art technologies.

The implementation and operation of this network will warrant deployment of over 200 people, most of whom will be locally sourced.

Kapil Puri, chairman, Spanco Telesystems and Solutions, said, “We are honoured to partner with the Orissa Government and strongly believe that this initiative will contribute significantly to its progress as a State. We are confident that the Orissa SWAN will increase efficiencies and response times significantly, drive down communication costs for the government and provide a major impetus to the state’s developmental plans and programmes.”

“The setting up of the Orissa SWAN is an important first step for Spanco. It will be our endeavour to mitigate losses accruing to the state exchequer due to inefficient manual systems prevalent here and to leverage IT to stem this problem,” he added.