HCL Infosystems bags 400 Million deal from Census of India

New Delhi: HCL Infosystems and ICT system Integration company announced the contract by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India for Census of India. HCL Infosystems will be collaborating with the Government of India to digitize the data generated from Census of India project for the year 2010 - 11.

Speaking on the occasion J.V. Ramamurthy, President and COO, HCL Infosystems said "HCL Infosystems has a legacy of partnering and implementing large nation building projects successfully over the years in the country and to be involved with the Census of India is a matter of pride for us."

This project will involve an epic task of digitizing data collected across the country including maintenance, indexing, scanning and storage at a central repository. It also involves processing of all data captured including images and would also require extraction of information in English language format. Specialised software and other tools like Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) will be deployed for extraction and cross verification. Under the scope, HCL Infosystems will digitize the information gathered from approximately 55 crore survey forms and 1.10 crore, images. The information will then be stored at a central repository gathered from 15 different project locations across the country.