page_title: State Wide Area Network
section_title: Gujarat State Wide Area Network
hierarchical_section_title: State Wide Area Network / History / Gujarat State Wide Area Network
caption_attribution_description: English: Sri Narendra Modi at GSWAN
context_page_description: A State Wide Area Network is one of the core infrastructure components under the National e-Governance Plan of the Government of India. The main purpose of this network is to create a dedicated Closed User Group network and provide a secured and high speed connectivity for Government functioning and connecting State Headquarters, District Headquarters, Blocks Headquarters. The SWAN project, which forms a strategic component of the National eGovernance Plan, was approved in March 2005.
context_section_description: The GSWAN is the first end-to-end IP network and the largest network in the Asia Pacific region at the time of its implementation in the year 2001-02. This connects the State Secretariat in Gandhinagar, the Capital of Gujarat, with other Government offices across the state on Leased Lines.
  In its first phase, 25 district headquarters and 225 Talukas were connected through a huge network of optical fiber cables to the Sachivalaya and even to ministers' residences at Gandhinagar, the state capital. 
  The then Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi said "Gujarat will ride GSWAN", during his inaugural speech at the Communication & Information Technology (CIT), Ahmedabad.
caption: Narendra Modi at GSWAN
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