Wednesday, 17 September 2008

AMD Based Desktops Successfully Deployed for Gram Panchayat eGovernance Project

AMD and the West Bengal Government recently announced that the AMD Athlon X2 dual-core processor based desktops for the Gram Panchayat eGovernance project were successfully deployed.

The deployment covers all 210 Gram Panchayats across 19 districts of the state to primarily bridge the digital divide and further socio-economic opportunities for its citizens and was initiated by the Panchayat Raj and Rural Development department of the Government of West Bengal.

The project involved expansion of existing PC infrastructure to ensure that software such as the Gram Panchayat Management System (GPMS), Integrated Fund Monitoring and Accounting System (IFMAS) and Rural Household Survey (RHS) could be installed and accessed quickly and efficiently by all Panchayati Raj institutions.

A key mandate for this undertaking was to ensure that the planned infrastructure should not be impacted by rural environment conditions such as dust and power irregularities.

Dr. Subir Roy, State Information Officer, National Informatics Center, West Bengal unit, who chaired the function announcing the completion of the project, said, “We wanted a dependable technology partner for this project, so that we could implement a robust, performance oriented and scalable solution. Our objectives have been met with AMD as our technology partner. Bringing in AMD helped us contain the deployment costs within the same investment envelope, and thereby reaching the benefits to a larger section of population.”