|
Today Webel plays the
role of the nodal agency for the state
government, with two distinctivefacets: The first, assisting the State Government in
nurturing the Electronics & IT industry of
the State, which has seen remarkable growth in
the last four years. In this role Webel
facilitates the growth of the industry by a host
of measures, such as ensuring the availability
of quality infrastructure in the form of
land/buildings for the investors, ensuring last
mile connectivity and also facilitating
processes of clearances that are required to set
up business in the knowledge based industry
sector in the State. Thus Webel forms a single
window to new investors as well as nurtures
existing investors who are working in the State.
In addition to the firm efforts that are more
focused on the immediate business requirements,
Webel is also driving a series of concentrated
efforts to structurally address the talent
concerns of the Electronics & IT/ITES
industry , development of core competencies
& initiating focused efforts to streamline
the internal business margins, address a larger
market base & enhance ethical practices.
Such continued emphasis will contribute to long
term payoffs & will structurally strengthen Webel
into a profitable company.
The second distinctive role that Webel plays,
is in assisting the State Government in all its
e-governance projects. To mention a few success
stories, Webel
has set up West
Bengal State Wide Area Network (WBSWAN), the
State Government's basic optical fibre network
which covers all district headquarters and eight
important sub-divisional towns of the State. It
is now poised to implement the second phase of
the network, which will be reaching the Gram
Panchayats.
- E-governance
Webel
has implemented a
number of remarkable e-governance projects
which deliver value to citizens. To name a
few, a private Optical Fiber Network, the
West Bengal State Wide Area Network (WBSWAN)
has been set up connecting all district head
quarters, Gram Panchayat level and the Block
level. WBSWAN forms the basic backbone of
the government's e-governance program.
Riding on the basic connectivity,
successful projects in the field of health
care, law and order, commercial tax
applications to name a few have been
implemented. The power of IT has been
harnessed to bring tangible benefits to
citizens in the remote areas of the state
through the telemedicine project. The
project offers the best of breed medical
expertise from Kolkata to people visiting
hospitals in districts where this quality of
consultation is unavailable. Today, three
referral hospitals and six nodal centers
have the telemedicine facility established
and the telemedicine model which Webel has
established is one of its kind in the
country in terms of technology and value
addition.
Webel
has implemented an
application, the first of its kind in the
country, where all 411 Police Stations of
West Bengal has been networked and a series
of applications run on the network such as
criminal tracking system, application which
permit messaging and access to data at
grass-root levels to track crime.
- Internet Bandwidth
Webel
has brought
quality Internet Bandwidth to the common
people as well as Corporate, Educational
Institutions, Hospitals and many other
organizations across the State at an
affordable price keeping a very high uptime
with an aim to providing quality Internet
service across the rural areas to increase
social & economic stability and
opportunity, new channels for learning,
better communication with Govt. and
improvements in health & welfare. This
is the first step to make the rural India
the back office of urban India including
tele-education, tele-medicine, e-governance,
entertainment as well as employment
generation by way of high speed access to
information and web based communication.
Hide |
