National Informatics Centre (NIC) will hire 800 people in the next one year, including more than 350 cybersecurity experts.
“NIC currently has 4,500 people across India in its various operations and will hire 800 professionals in the next one year, including 355 cybersecurity experts, to tackle rising risks of cybersecurity,” said Neeta Verma, Director General, NIC.
NIC provides technology support for all governance services and hosts almost 10,000 government websites.
The NIC on Monday also opened its fourth data centre in Bhubaneswar after Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune. “With a slew of government apps including mygov, e-Way bill, public finance management system, e-Hospials all being hosted by NIC, the demand for computing and storage has increased many folds," Ms Verma said.
“The new cloud-enabled National Data Centre aims to offer round-the-clock operations with secure hosting for various e-governance applications of Central and State Governments and has ability to support 35,000 virtual servers,” an official release said.
