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NIIT Technologies Secures 228 Cr Govt Project

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Border Security Force (BSF), the country's premier paramilitary force

tasked with securing its borders has approved placement of the contract

for the Rs. 228 crore Intranet Prahari project to NIIT Technologies

Limited. The project involves setting up of the complete href="http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/ITstrategy/2009/109020101.asp">infrastructure,

network

and

applications to facilitate href="http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/web/2006/106030903.asp">operations

management, integrated financial activities, and human resources

management for the force.



 


Border
Security

Force
as a premier force has been growing steadily since

its inception in 1965. Today, it has over 157 battalions, with another

27 battalions in 9 sectors and 3 more frontiers to be raised in a

phased manner. Through the Intranet Prahari program all frontiers and

battalions across the country would be connected to each other.



 


Commenting on the engagement, Arvind Thakur CEO, NIIT
Technologies said, We

are

privileged to serve the force in this manner. Our rich experience of

engaging with and implementing turn-key assignments for paramilitary

organizations will add value to our engagement with BSF
.



 


The supply and set-up of the entire href="http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/ITstrategy/2009/109020101.asp">infrastructure
of the project includes establishment of a central href="http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/topstories/2009/109110734.asp">data

center, 10 mini data centers, a disaster recovery center and

infrastructure in a total of 230 sector Headquarters and battalions.

Applications on state-of-the-art technology would be configured and

deployed across data centers and remote locations.



 


NIIT Technologies has a history of successful implementations of href="http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/ITstrategy/2008/108050701.asp">IT
solutions for defence and paramilitary forces. It had executed a

similar turn-key engagement for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

called SELO an acronym for Service and Loyalty. The Company continues

to provide support and maintenance services for this project.












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