GSWAN (Gujarat State
Wide Area Network) at Glance
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Connectivity creates foundation for rolling out any
service electronically hence it is one of the
cardinal factors in e-governance. Gujarat has
successfully rolled out its SWAN project since
2001 with the vision of providing quality
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connectivity for facilitating implementation
of e-Governance applications and improving
overall administrative efficiency and it has
reached to a mature stage today. Today,
Gujarat provides a large pool of bandwidth
which can facilitate future requirement of
service on demand. GSWAN connects all 26
Districts, 225 Talukas ultimately
interconnecting more than 5070 GoG offices
for secure digital communication. From 1st
May, 2011 onwards GSWAN bandwidth has been
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from 4 Mbps to 34
Mbps (750% increased) at all District Centers to
State Center and from 2 Mbps to 10 Mbps
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(400% increased) in Taluka Centers, along
with from 4 Mbps to 34 Mbps (750% increased)
in clusters -27 links at District leading
almost 100% uptime performance of the
network. GSWAN has 32746 users which show
118.30% increase in no. of users utilizing
GSWAN connectivity compared to situation
before 2 years. On GSWAN more than 45000
mails get processed on daily bases that show
80% increase in mail processing capacity.
More than 7 All districts use daily average
of 55% of bandwidth of GSWAN for data
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There has been 44% increase in logging
complain calls for GSWAN issues in last 2
years which shows vital awareness of using
the Network by end users and efficient
administration has managed to solve 100% of
them. GSWAN facilitates webcasting (WC) and
video conferencing (VC) for G2G and G2C
communication with yearly average 150+ WC/VC
combined together hence leading to total 500
VC/WCs till date. GSWAN intranet provides
secure access to various applications such
as - Public Distribution |
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Year |
All VC |
WC |
Total |
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2009
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144 |
7 |
151 |
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2010
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142 |
19 |
161 |
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2011 |
104 |
18 |
122 |
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2012 (May) |
50 |
8 |
58 |
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Total |
440 |
52 |
492 |
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System(PDS), Garvi (Registration of
Documents), Land Record Information
System (E-dhara), Electoral Roll
Management System (ERMS), e-Mamta,
IWDMS-Integrated Workflow & Document
Management System, IFMS-Integrated
Financial Management System,
HMIS-Hospital Management & Information
System, GSBTM-Guj State Bio-Tech
Mission, GAD-General Administration
Dept., XPLORA – Entry Card Swipe,
Agriculture Soil Health Card
Application, SWAGAT
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Grievances Redressal to Hon'ble CM, Commodity
Price Monitoring, Agriculture Census Gujarat,
Ration Card, Intra FOREST, RoR at Village,
Janseva, Development Support Agency – Tribal,
Media Response System, City Survey – Gujarat,
Jantry – Land Registration, Gujarat Information
Commission, Directorate of Animal Husbandry,
FDCA – Foods & Drugs Controller Administration,
& Drugs Manufacturing License Allocation,
Directorate of Pension & Provident Funds etc.
GSWAN hosts more than 260 different departmental
websites which gives access to common citizens
for information. Moreover, applications like
ATVT hosted on GSWAN has ultimately provided
34.7 Lacs Certificates, Public Distribution
System provided 4.24 Lacs bar-coded ration card,
e-Mamta registered 99 Lacs families; SWAGAT
processed 2.62 Lacs grievances till date and
much more. In a nutshell, GSWAN has not only
created role model for connectivity and
efficient management of Asia’s one of the
largest Government network but also given
business model to earn revenue for Government.
Considering all such growth, Government of India
has also recommended bandwidth
enhancement to all states stating Gujarat as
Role Model. In view of the above and high
performance of GSWAN, Gujarat has shown
rapid growth in e-Governance through
stronger backbone support by its
connectivity & has established a unique
benchmark for other states for better
digital governance.
GSWAN Future
Plans:
- Creation of more PoPs, Up-gradation of
existing PoPs, up-gradation to high speed
devices/switches and Installing high range
wireless radios for last mile connectivity,
All horizontal offices to be connected
- MPLS implementation
- Rolling out of more applications on
GSWAN
- Integrating municipal corporations and
nagarpalikas
- Unified Communication
- eGram integration with GSWAN
- Tele- presence
- IPv6 implementation
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