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NIIT TECHNOLOGIES tAKES BIG striDES IN PARAMILITARY FORCES
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IIT Technologies, India’s leading IT solution provider, takes pride in being an active partner in many crucial Government initiatives. The company has been providing business impacting IT Solutions and Services to Indian Government establishments for over a decade. It has also been an IT transformation partner for a few Central Paramilitary Organsations of India. NIIT Technologies’ best-in-class solutions architected using the latest software design and engineering practices enable clients to automate various functions, improve process efficiencies and enhance their speed of execution. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is the entity which looks after the internal security of the country, including border related security with a few neighbouring countries. There is a special focus by MHA on strengthening and re-structuring various organisations under its ambit, to make their operations more efficient and in this way protect human life, assets and maintain peace. Automation is seen as one of the key enablers in these initiatives. Therefore, MHA has embarked on the automation of various paramilitary forces, state police organisations and other agencies, to make the systems more efficient. The aim is to have at hand the right information
on various incidents at the right time, so that qualitative decisions can be made to combat and manage security. Here’s a look at some of the projects that NIIT Tech has been working on with the government.
Boarder Security Force On January 5, 2012 Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, launched the ‘Intranet Prahari’ project in the presence of BSF Director General, U.K. Bansal, and other senior officials in New Delhi. The project was rolled out in just 18 months, a tremendous achievement given the scope of the work. BSF (Border Security Force) jawans posted in 237 locations, can now access their personal data (salaries, arrears, pensions, family pensions, etc.) from their posted locations with the launch of the Intranet Prahari project. NIIT Technologies has set up three data centres, including the main data centre in the CGO Complex, New Delhi, a disaster recovery data centre in Bangalore (in a different seismic zone), and 10 mini data centres at the frontier headquarters. NIIT Technologies has rolled out an extensive training programme for around 150 officers and their subordinates. The company has also provided training to over 20,000 personnel, on how to use the ERP package in their day-to-day work, and to enhance their
efficiency and productivity.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) NIIT Technologies has developed an Intranet called SELO for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) that covers the Human Resource, Inventory, Finance, Operations, Payroll and Workflow functions, up to the group centrer/Battalion levels. This has been deployed over 100 locations across the country with connectivity provided through remote infrastructure (LAN/WAN). Project SELO is an enterprisewide computerisation project for the CRPF. This means that essential tasks such as operations, intelligence, training, inventory, budget and finance, etc., hitherto performed manually, have now been computerised. Applications for these functions have been developed, and plans are afoot to interconnect all these departments. NIIT Technologies has designed the applications keeping in mind the specific needs of the CRPF and the need to
integrate its different software solutions. NIIT Technologies has additionally trained a large number of CRPF personnel in various functions, including DBA/networking/messaging, among others. Around 150 people have been trained in computer operations, while over 1,050 people have undergone implementation training.
Sashastra Seema Bal NIIT Technologies has customised Intranet SELO’s payroll software to implement the payroll for the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). The company has also developed a solution for Border Out Post (BOP) management, and implemented the same for the SSB. NIIT Technologies has a history of successful implementations of IT solutions for defence and paramilitary forces. NIIT Technologies rich experience in implementation of turnkey assignments brings repeat business for the company from the forces.
March 2012 / www.egovonline.net / egov
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