State Govt initiates steps for rolling out mail messaging system

Surjit Kumar Dhal, Bhubaneswar, July 20: As a major step towards securing the data and ensuring cyber security, State Government has initiated steps for rolling out mail messaging system on a protected Government network.

This was decided at a high level meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi in Secretariat Conference hall on Friday.

Principal Secretary Electronics and Information Technology CJ Venugopal outlined the e-Mail guidelines of Sate Government for discussion and Chief Executive of the Odisha Computer Application Center (OCAC) Rudra Narayan Palai presented the technical and administrative details of the proposed system.

Considering the proposal, the Chief Secretary directed the official to integrate the new mail messaging system with OSWAS and e-dispatch systems.

Padhi further issued directions to make the system more user friendly with all features of a modern enterprise class mailing system such as Gmail and asked the OCAC to come up with detail estimated cost for rolling out, running and maintenance of the system.

            It was decided in the meeting that in the first phase all the Group-A and Group-B officers would be brought into its fold. Gradually, other officers would be brought in at different phases. OCAC would be the nodal agency for running and maintenance of the system and have all cyber security parameters.

According to officials, it was further decided that all official communications would be done through this Government messaging system and no officer would use of the private mail service.

The features of groupware such as Calendar service, Drive, Task etc would be available in it.

The application would be configured in mobile with IMAP/POP/Exchange Mode with Active Synac facility. Tentative target was set to roll out 1st phase of the system in August, 2019.

            Palai appraised that the application has been put at SDC “Go Cloud” environment with domain www.mail.odisha.gov.in. Its resources such as computing, storage etc could be upscaled on the basis of demand from time to time.

He said the system has been successfully piloted in OCAC and Electronics and IT department since last three months.