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A State Data Centre refers to one of many data centres set up in various states of India as part of National e-Governance Plan of India. State data centres are a part of a broader program that aims at providing the IT infrastructure for various e-Governance programs. Each such data centre is designed to build up state's services, applications and infrastructure on a common platform and will deliver them over a wide area network (WAN). SDCs are planned to work together with State Wide Area Network project of NeGP to achieve its goals.

Introduction
The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), comprising of 27 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) and 10 components, was approved by the Union Government of India on May 18, 2006. One crucial part of NeGP is setting up of IT infrastructure to support the various projects of the plan. The State Data Centres project is designed to fulfil this need in all the states and union territories of India www.mit.gov.in/content/data-centre. The vision behind this project is that a state data centre will function as a negotiator between open public data and critical & private government information. In effect, it will provide adequate support to fulfil the IT requirements of the state while ensuring dependability, scalability and security. This will provide the necessary IT support to the different state departments making them able to host their applications on a common platform which will in turn lead to increased cost effectiveness, centralisation and efficient management of services. More concretely, a SDC will be equipped to host systems like web servers, application servers and database servers etc. Some of the important services SDCs shall be able to provide include application and web hosting, 24*7 support for data and application availability, centralised network and database management, security of private data and backup & archival Services.

Current Progress
Since its inception the union government of India has spent a total budget of Rs. 1378.50 Crores in various states of India. As per the data received from the official sources, currently various states of India are in different phases of the project realisation. As many as 14 States have been successful in making the SDCs operational till date. Some of these states include Gujarat, West Bengal and Tripura. Furthermore, SDCs are under implementation in some of the other states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and are expected to become functional by the end of 2011.