Intranet Prahari Project launched

Hon'ble Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has launched Intranet Prahari Project (IPP) at HQ DG BSF, CGO Complex, New Delhi.

MHA has sanctioned that the Intranet Prahari Project worth Rs.229 crore on 25th February, 2010. This Project essentially is believed to be an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution through NIIT Technologies Ltd. for Border Security Force (BSF), wherein all Finance, Inventory Management, Operations and Personnel Information have been automated and integrated to act as a robust and quick Decisions Support System and for consolidated view of data by higher echelons and for various analyses. 

Under this Project, network connectivity is said to be extended up to the Battalion level. State-of-the-Art Data Centres have been established; the Main Data Centre; a Disaster Recovery Data Centre (in a different seismic zone) and Mini Data Centres at Frontier HQrs for data storage. Sufficient cyber security measures to ensure network security and to prevent data loss or pilferage have been incorporated.

An extensive training programme is claimed to have been embarked upon for successful and seamless implementation. It is claimed that Advanced IT training was imparted to around 150 officers and subordinates officers. Around 20,000 personnel were given training on the fundamentals of computers and on the software application developed under this project.