• The Centre will set up the country’s biggest data centre in Bhopal with a capacity to host five lakh virtual servers
• The data centre, which will take about two years to come up, will be set up by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
• This will be the fifth National Data Centre after the ones at Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune.
• These National Data Centres host government websites, services and applications.
• India’s digital ecosystem has got a momentum of its own and this process is going to be irreversible.
• Any attempt to influence India’s elections in a covert or overt manner by abuse of data will not be tolerated. People can campaign on social networking sites, but misuse and abuse of data is not acceptable.
• The government planned to expand its BPO promotion scheme to one lakh seats from the “current 48,000 seats.”
• Under the initiative, which had an outlay of ₹493 crore, 91 BPOs had been set up in small towns and rural areas till now.

The Hindu