Chandigarh (Balwinder Singh) — In a major move to reinforce public cyber defenses and modernize governance infrastructure, Haryana’s State Level Information Technology Steering Committee (IT PRISM) on Thursday approved two major initiatives totaling ₹738 crore to establish a centralized cybersecurity command center and deploy a next-generation state data repository.
Chaired by Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi during the committee’s 51st review meeting, the panel greenlit the ₹269-crore “Haryana Digital Kavach” Security Operations Centre (H-SOC) alongside the ₹469-crore Haryana State Data Centre 2.0 (HSDC 2.0) project. The H-SOC initiative will receive ₹25 crore in funding from the World Bank under the Haryana AI Development Project, with the state exchequer financing the remaining ₹244 crore across a nine-month rollout and five-year operational horizon.
Operating under a “One State, One Security Operations Centre” model, H-SOC will unify fragmented departmental monitoring into a single 24/7 command installation. Briefing the committee, Citizen Resources Information Department Commissioner and Secretary J. Ganesan noted that the facility will integrate automated incident response (SOAR), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), endpoint detection, and threat intelligence platforms to protect core databases, applications, and public networks from sophisticated cyberattacks.
The second clearance, HSDC 2.0, will overhaul the state’s legacy data center that has operated out of the Chandigarh civil secretariat since August 2012 across 74 government departments, boards, and corporations. The upgraded facility will introduce GPU-ready computing capabilities to support artificial intelligence workloads, scalable enterprise storage, advanced networking, and dedicated disaster recovery safeguards.
Additionally, the steering committee reviewed implementation roadmaps for SARAL 2.0, the state’s upcoming citizen service portal aimed at improving administrative turnaround times and transparency in public welfare delivery.
