New email server for government on the anvil

“NIC (National Informatics Centre) is developing an email server for the whole government. The current email server has kind of already exceeded its capacity. We are now creating a massive email server. 

“Slowly and slowly, people are being on-boarded onto this email server,” Ajay Kumar, Additional Secretary, Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, said. 

“We do endeavour to make sure that all government officers use official one (email id) all government officers, central and state. We will offer this facility to states also. Because, when you are using private servers, your data is going outside country, which may be of strategic importance. Therefore, official work should be done on official email servers,” he said. 

States can have their own official email servers or they can use central servers, the official said.” 

NIC is the only agency (which has taken up job). We have no objection if some other agency wants to do it as long as it is official. NIC is providing a service which can be availed,” he said. On August 28, the government had announced the email service.