MeitY approves Google Cloud to partner with public sector firms

Google Cloud has announced its empanelment by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, allowing it to apply cloud technology to solve complex problems for government organizations.

This empanelment enables the Indian public sector, including government agencies at the centre and state levels, and public sector units (PSUs) in sectors such as power, banking financial services and insurance (BFSI), transportation, oil and gas, public finance, and others, to deploy Google Cloud, helping it in becoming an active participant in India’s digital transformation initiatives.

The company said that Google Cloud products and services address the unique needs of public sector requirements of migrating critical workloads to cloud through a dedicated sales force, partner ecosystem and services to bring required solutions to the government.

Bikram Singh Bedi, Managing Director at Google Cloud India Region, said, “India is a strategic and important market for us and we continue to grow and invest in the success of our customers here. We are proud and believe the empanelment of Google Cloud by MeitY will play a critical role in applying cloud technology to solve complex problems for government organizations.”

Microsoft, IBM, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Oracle, among others, have already received approval from MeitY to procure and initiate digital transformation projects.