KATHMANDU: In an effort to promote e-governance in a sustainable manner, the government agencies has established what is known as 'Government Integrated Data Center' ' (GIDC).

"Distribution of the computerised citizenship card and electronic passports are the hallmarks of e-governance," PM Nepal said, inaugurating the event amid a function organised in the capital.

He further informed that with the launch of the GIDC, a beginning has been made towards e-governance, which would make government works transparent and hassles-free.

Government officias said GIDC could act as a backbone infrastructure for implementing the e-governance and e-service delivery. However, they opined that the main challenge they confronted was to efficiently operate this new infrastructure.

The data center is a centralised location for the storage, management, processing and exchange of data that exists within a specific enterprise or a specialised agency.

The main aim of the data center is building up an integrated operational environment for e-government portal, e-administration and e-government application, the officials said on the occasion.

The data center has the capacity to store all the government data across the nation for up to 15 years.

Once ready, the GDIC will provide services like data storage facilities, sharing computing resources, email-Internet and website hosting.

Authorities have expected that all ministers and departments would be connected to the data center by a high-level speed network so that they can operate their applications form their own premises in a secure manner.

The KOICA has injected a sum of US$350,00,00 to establish the center.