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Suggestions Invited on Draft Data Center Policy 2020

Start Date :
Nov 10, 2020
Last Date :
Nov 30, 2020
23:45 PM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Ministry of Electronics and IT has drafted a Data Centre policy to benefit the Data Centre park developers/Data Centre operators as well as the allied ecosystem of the Data Centre ...

Ministry of Electronics and IT has drafted a Data Centre policy to benefit the Data Centre park developers/Data Centre operators as well as the allied ecosystem of the Data Centre sector. The policy envisages making India a Global Data Centre hub, promote investment in the sector, propel digital economy growth, enable provisioning of trusted hosting infrastructure to fulfill the growing demand of the country and facilitate state of the art service delivery to citizens. This document lays out a policy framework including various structural / regulatory interventions, investment promotion in the sector, possible Incentivization mechanisms along with the institutional mechanism required for the governance. The policy framework also seeks to strengthen the recently announced “AatmaNirbhar Bharat” initiative by identifying possible opportunities of manufacturing of Data Centre equipment (IT as well as non-IT) in the country. It also identifies possible areas of participation by MSMEs and Start-ups.

The policy intends to ensure sustainable and trusted Data Centre capacity within the country. This policy framework shall be followed by a detailed scheme with implementation guideline document providing the particulars of various fiscal and non-fiscal incentives to be provided to the sector by the Central and State Government.

For the same, Ministry of Electronics and IT invites citizen suggestions on the Draft Data Center Policy 2020.
Refer to the Policy document here : Draft Data Center Policy 2020

Please send in your suggestions by 30th November 2020.

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sameer siddharth
sameer siddharth 5 years 8 months ago
sir there should be one law for everyone the cantt should be abolished. the exclusive military ares should be made away from cantt. the civil part of cantt should be merge with munsipality since many big countries don't have concept of cantonement this demand of civilians should be addressed by the government since the civilians still under the British old & strict rules
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Arjun Sharma
Arjun Sharma 5 years 8 months ago
General data protection laws India has also not yet enacted specific legislation on data protection. However, the Indian legislature did amend the Information Technology Act (2000) (“IT Act”) to include Section 43A and Section 72A, which give a right to compensation for improper disclosure of personal information.
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Arjun Sharma
Arjun Sharma 5 years 8 months ago
Data subject refers to any individual person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, via an identifier such as a name, an ID number, location data, or via factors specific to the person's physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
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Arjun Sharma
Arjun Sharma 5 years 8 months ago
What is the personal data protection bill? Introduced in India's parliament on December 11, 2019, the Personal Data Protection Bill sets rules for how personal data should be processed and stored, and lists people's rights with respect to their personal information.
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Arjun Sharma 5 years 8 months ago
What is the personal data protection bill? Introduced in India's parliament on December 11, 2019, the Personal Data Protection Bill sets rules for how personal data should be processed and stored, and lists people's rights with respect to their personal information.
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Arjun Sharma
Arjun Sharma 5 years 8 months ago
The NDSAP policy is designed to promote data sharing and enable access to Government of India owned data for national planning, development and awareness. ... The principles on which data sharing and accessibility need to be based include: openness, flexibility, transparency, quality, security and efficiency,.
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Arjun Sharma
Arjun Sharma 5 years 8 months ago
Service Integration etc. SDCs would also provide better operation & management control and minimize overall cost of Data Management, IT Resource Management, Deployment and other costs. SDC scheme has been approved by Department of Eletronics and IT, Government of India with an outlay of Rs. 30.88Crores over a period of 5 years.
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Arjun Sharma
Arjun Sharma 5 years 8 months ago
Infrastructure such as State Wide Area Network (SWAN) and Common Service Centre (CSC) connectivity extended up to village level. State Data Centre would provide many functionalities and some of the key functionalities are Central Repository of the State, Secure Data Storage, Online Delivery of Services, Citizen Information/Services Portal, State Intranet Portal, Disaster Recovery, Remote Management and Service Integration etc. SDCs would also provide better operation & management control and
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Arjun Sharma 5 years 8 months ago
State Data Centre (SDC) has been identified as one of the important element of the core infrastructure for supporting e-Governance Initiatives of National eGovernance Plan (NeGP). Under NeGP, it is proposed to create State Data Centres for the States to consolidate services, applications and infrastructure to provide efficient electronic delivery of G2G, G2C and G2B services. These services can be rendered by the States through common delivery platform seamlessly supported by core Connectivity
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Arjun Sharma 5 years 8 months ago
Private equity firm Actis LLP is in talks with global information technology companies and retailers to set up data centres in India, Mint reported earlier. In line with European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the government had in 2018 introduced a draft personal data protection bill to regulate the use of individual’s data by the government and private companies.
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