The state-of-the-art Portal is being hosted at NIC Internet Data Centre with industry standard infrastructure to deliver citizen centric services with primary objectives of high availability, scalable, secure accessible and manageable system. Since the
Portal delivers citizen centric services, which are accessed by millions of users and its Meta contents are consumed by various state government and private portals, its availability for 24*7*365 is one of its main objective.
The following are the deployed state-of-the-art technology infrastructure, and its managerial policy of National portal India to meet the above mentioned objectives.
x Multi-layered architecture: The presentation, application & data layers of the portal are
Since the portal delivers citizen centric services, which are accessed by millions of users and its Meta contents consumed by various state government and private portals, its availability for 24*7*365 is one of the main areas of focus.
Independent presentation, application and data layers
Clustered system that ensures high availability and simultaneous processing of multiple requests
To secure the huge structured central content repository from storage/hardware failure is a core objective of the deployed hosting infrastructure. Moreover during any natural disaster, the Disaster Recovery System located at Hyderabad ensures the portals availability and data security.
Salient Features
A one stop source for all information Comprehensive content on the government schemes and plans
Citizen orientation User centered design
Gateway to over 6700 government websites
Bi-lingual content- English & Hindi Distributed Content Management System
ISO Certified and Website Certificate Quality Level 1
Complies with Priority 2 (level AA) of WCAG2.0 Laid down by W3C
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x Clustered server components: In order to facilitate millions of users accessing the portal, and to deliver meta contents to various state portals, multiple server nodes are clustered for processing the user request simultaneously. Also the clustered system ensures the availability of the portal during any node failure. The state-of-the-art load balancing at network level distributes the users request to the cluster nodes to decrease the system response time and increase its availability.
x Storage area network (SAN): To meet the exponential data growth of India portal, all server nodes are equipped with SAN storage system which is accessible through high speed up to 1 Gbps Network ensuring that the system is highly scalable in terms of storage to meet additional requirements.
x Pre & post production auditing: The processing of auditing the application modules of India portal before and after production includes, testing security, performance, usability and accessibility thereby ensuring the portals security and performance. Similarly, any new hardware component which needs to be added are also tested and tuned before integrating them in production environment.
x Data backup and recovery: The Disaster Recovery System located at Hyderabad ensures the portals availability and data security. The portal data is replicated asynchronously over WAN using FC-IP protocol.
Governance Structure
The management structure of the National Portal involves multi-level committees to provide guidance and direction on various aspects of the project right from advisory to administrative to financial and technical details in order to achieve sustained implementation of the project objectives. These committees
have been setup at both
administrative and functional level.
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Awards x eIndia 2009 x 1stPrize for System
Demonstration of NPI, Montreal, 2008
x Best e-Content Award ʹ Manthan Award, 2007
x Finalist at Stockholm Challenge 2008
These include:
Advisory and Administrative Committees
x Project Review and Steering Group (PRSG): The PRSG, under Secretary, DIT, periodically reviews and monitors the progress of the project and sanctions its financial support. It has representatives from the States, DIT and NIC.
x Content Advisory Committee: This Committee, comprising of senior officers from different Government Departments and State/UTs, advises and provides policy level guidance on the content related matters of the National Portal. Guidelines and frameworks pertaining to the content contribution developed by the India Portal are approved by this Committee.
x Co-ordination Committee: The Co-ordination Committee administers the progress of the project on a day-to-day basis and deals with the administrative matters related to the project.
Core Project Team
The core project team with experts from NIC handles the overall design, content compilation, packaging, development and implementation including the promotion of the Portals. All important dimensions of the portal such as content, design, technology and quality assurance are handled by this team. A
Project Secretariat has been instituted at the National Portal at NIC Headquarters (Delhi) which takes care of the communication, administrative and logistic matters of the Project.
Content Contribution Group
ͻ National Portal Coordinators: National Portal Coordinators are Senior level officers nominated at the Central as well as State levels, who are responsible for contributing and vetting the content pertaining to their respective sector/State before it is published on the India portal.
ͻ NIC Coordinators for National Portal: For each Ministry/Department/State Government, NIC Coordinators for the National Portal (NCNPs) have been nominated to provide complete technical support in terms of content, technology to the respective National Portal Coordinators.
ͻ Content Service Providers: For each State Government one Content Service Provider has been identified through the RFP mode to provide complete support in terms of content acquisition and contribution using the content management system of the portal.
Financial Outlay for National
Crores for three years.
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Portal Project was `23.35
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