Reliance Communications Thursday said it hasbagged multiple orders worth Rs.150 crore from the central and stategovernments, including the municipal corporation of Mumbai.
"With government emerging as one of the highest ICTspender, Reliance has secured several multi-year, multi-crore contracts acrossthe length and breadth of the country," the company said in a statement.
The company said it has signed long term contracts with theDepartment of Post, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (BMC), MadhyaPradesh Border Checkpost Development Company Limited along with KarnatakaDISCOM and Chattisgarh DISCOM.
The Department of Post has chosen the firm for hosting theirservers at Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City in Navi Mumbai.
"We are delighted to be a partner-of-choice for variousdepartments of central and state government of India providing them with datacentres, IT infrastructure and connectivity service," said Punit Garg,president and chief executive officer, global enterprise business.
Reliance has signed a facility management contract for threeyears with BMC to outsource its IT infrastructure covering its data centrelocated in Worli along with 24 ward offices across Mumbai.
This contract covers operations of data centre, training ofBMC IT Staff, maintenance of IT and non IT infrastructure, operating systems andapplication management.
The Madhya Pradesh Border Checkpost Development Company hasentered into a 13-year contract under which Reliance will create a network forcarrying data and video traffic.
Karnataka DISCOM has signed an agreement for five years forrolling out multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) service across 850 locationsand wireless data connectivity across 60,000 data acquisition points whileChattisgarh DISCOM has signed a six-year contract for rolling out MPLS serviceacross 250 locations.
Reliance currently has 21 data centres spread across theglobe, nine of which are in India. It has been adding practically one facilityin the country every year.