GSWAN Connectivity

GSWAN (Gujarat State Wide Area Network) at Glance

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 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 33 Districts, 248 Talukas ultimately interconnecting more than 5070 GoG offices for secure digital communication. From July, 2016 onwards GSWAN bandwidth has been increased from 34 Mbps to 250 Mbps (740% increased) at all District Centers from State Center and from 10 Mbps to 200 Mbps (200% increased) in Taluka Centers, along with from 34 Mbps to 250 Mbps (740% increased) in clusters-33 links at District leading almost 100% uptime performance of the network. GSWAN has 60,000 users which show 50% increase in no. of users utilizing GSWAN connectivity compared to the situation before 5 years.

On GSWAN more than 2,37,283 mails get processed on daily bases that show more than 100% increase in mail processing capacity in compare to the situation before 5 years. More than 17 districts use daily average of 65% of bandwidth of GSWAN for data processing

There has been 40% 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 2400+ WC/VC combined together hence leading to total 5000 VC/WCs till date.

Year	All VC	WC	Total
2014	232	130	362
2015	376	266	642
2016	490	279	769
2017	760	212	972
2018	997	180	1177
2019	886	158	1044
Jun-2020	1089	37	1126
Total	4830	1262	6092

There has been 40% 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 GSWAN intranet provides secure access to various applications such as – CM Dashboard, Digital Gujarat, Public Distribution 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, SATHI (HRMS), XPLORA – Entry Card Swipe, Agriculture Soil Health Card Application, SWAGAT-Grievances Redressal to Hon'ble CM, eNaM-Commodity Price Monitoring, Intra FOREST, anyRoR

GSWAN has thus caters several offices like Janseva kendra, ATVT center, 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 300 different departmental websites and 80+ web applications which gives access to common citizens for information as well as services. Moreover, applications like ATVT hosted on GSWAN provides various type of Certificates like income certificate, cast certificate etc., Public Distribution System provides bar-coded ration card, change in ration card, e-Mamta registered 99 Lacs families for mother and child tracking for vaccination and other health related benefits; 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 on of more PoPs, Up-gradation of existing PoPs, up-gradation to high speed / high range
wireless radios for last mile connectivity, All horizontal offices to be connected
Rolling out of more applications on GSWAN
Integrating municipal corporations and nagarpalikas
Unified Communication
eGram integration with GSWAN
IPv6 implementation
Dual Network Connectivity at Districts, Taluka and other Critical Offices to ensure 100% Network Uptime

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LAST UPADATED DATE: 24-03-2021

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