Government officials may no longer be able to use popular free e-mail services like Gmail and Yahoo for work by the end of the current fiscal year 2014-15, as the centre seeks to enforce a ban to safeguard critical and sensitive data.
The government has approved the proposal moved by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) to establish a secure and encrypted email service for government officials, PTI reported.
Communication and IT( information technology) Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad earlier this month said that a system of secured email is being established to increase its usage within the government by March 2015.
"We are in the process of implementing this. At present about a million officials are covered by it and we need to scale it to cover a total of 5 million employees. This process will be completed by March 2015," DeitY Secretary R S Sharma said.
"We are in the process of implementing this. At present about a million officials are covered by it and we need to scale it to cover a total of 5 million employees. This process will be completed by March 2015," DeitY Secretary R S Sharma said.
A budget of Rs. 100 crore has been allocated for the project, which includes expanding infrastructure and ramping up security of servers that will be used to store the mails, Mr Sharma said.
"We need to scale the infrastructure of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to accommodate this large number of officials. Also there will be a state-of-the-art security for the service to ensure nothing happens," he said.
The government's move comes on the back of rising concerns of cyber crime. Earlier in September, five million usernames and passwords of Google were reported to have been leaked online by hackers.
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