India Telecom Department plans to setup pan-India secure network.

The Govt., of India plans to upgrade its telecom infrastructure, in an effort to provide secure Internet environment in the country. With an estimated cost of Rs. 450 crores ($ 85 millon), DoT(Department of Telecommunication) is planning to set-up a pan-India secure, providing a fool-proof infrastructure for telecom and internet communication exclusively for government use. 

"To develop and deploy a pan-India secure network and network-based services such as e-mail, voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP), mobile communication through a survivable and available network architecture for secured communication for government use with a government funding of Rs 450 crore," says the latest report of the Department of Telecom (DoT). 

Major Internet service providers like Google, Yahoo, Skype uses proprietary encryption which may be secure from hackers, anti-social elements, rivals but still the communication made through these services can be accessed by the Government of other countries, where the servers for providing these services are hosted, by invoking the provisions of their laws, the report, prepared by the working group on Telecom for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), said.

With an estimated cost of Rs 300 crores, a secured communication network is proposed for high security of classified government communication to be established for fixed and wireless communication. Further, Rs 100 crore for five years are proposed to be earmarked for operational expenditure and Rs 50 crore for Research and Development

Source: ibnlive.in.com