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In collaboration with the private sector, the Government will create a Tamil Nadu Virtual Private Network linking all the Government departments to provide voice, data and video connectivity .

CHENNAI, April 11

THE Tamil Nadu Government has successfully wooed the Society for Electronic Transaction and Security (SETS) to set up its headquarters in the State, and it will continue to push information technology application in governance in partnership with the private sector, said the Minister for Information Technology, Mr D. Jayakumar.

Moving the demand for grants for the Department of Information Technology in the Assembly on Friday, he said that the Government, to attract SETS, has provided 5,000 sq ft of rent-free space for three years, three acres land in MGR Knowledge City and paid Rs 60 lakh for membership in SETS.

SETS deals with issues relating to security requirements in electronic transactions at the source of creation, storage, warehousing, transmission and retrieval.

(It may be recalled that various State Governments have been trying to woo the SETS and had promised various incentives. Dr R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, is the chairman of SETS.)

In collaboration with the private sector, the Government will create a Tamil Nadu Virtual Private Network linking all the Government departments to provide voice, data and video connectivity for improving service delivery, response-time and transparency.

The connectivity will be established between 29 district headquarters, taluks and blocks with Chennai using the free two mbps of bandwidth that each of the private telecom companies have to make available to the Government under the right of way policy for laying optical fibre cables.

Together with the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu, the Government will create and maintain a centralised data warehouse, which the departments can access for their requirements.

While the various departments update and keep track of data individually, inter-operability is an issue and when one department updates its data this is not always reflected in that of other departments, he said.

The Tamil Virtual University is coordinating the development of Tamil software products supported by the Tamil Software Development Fund. Several are under development such as the Machine Aided English-Tamil Translation, Tamil Linux, Tamil `Java' and Tamil `C'.

The virtual university will also develop packages for functional Tamil that international business travellers and tourists can use to communicate when they are here, he said.

The university will also organise an international conference and exhibition, the Tamil Internet 2003, in Chennai to promote use of Tamil in information technology.

The Government will host the national conference on e-governance being organised by the Centre, he said.

Following the promotion of tier II towns such as Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchi and Salem as destinations for information technology investments, the Government is looking at promoting the tier III towns as destinations for business process outsourcing.

Such investments will be through public private partnerships, he said.

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