India's First Blast-Proof Building At Bangalore Will Be The AADHAAR Data Center
India's first ever blast, flood, earthquake proof building will be ready by 2014 to protect all your 'AADHAAR' information, reports TOI. The data center being built at Bangalore will host all the servers that will carry your digital information including , Iris scans, fingerprints etc. The Government of India is ensuring that the data remains intact at all the costs and has employed Engineers India Limited (EIL) to construct the building near Tata Nagar Main Road, NH-4. EIL engineers have said that the building is blast proof with category 'C' rating. Some really impressive civil and structural engineering being implemented at UIDAI's data center.
The main aim is to protect the data of Indian citizens collected through the AADHAAR card scheme. The data storage won't be affected in case of explosions as the servers will be guarded by 500 mm thick walls. No other building in Bangalore has such a strong structure, it seems.
Just a representation. Not the actual construction.
The building is capable of withstanding floods and earthquakes as well. Bangalore comes under Zone-II on the Earth-Quake sensitivity scale but the building built by Engineers India Limited is for the next 'Zone-III' level earthquakes. In order to protect the servers from floods, the building is being constructed at a height of 2.1 meters from the road level.
UIDAI's Ashok Dalwai informed the media that the shell of the building is now under Wipro Infotech's control, which is responsible for building the data center. The building is in compliance with all the environmental norms.
It's expected that the UIDAI data center in Bangalore will be functional by March 30, 2014. Once fully operational, it will be capable of storing about 6 Pb (=49152 Terabytes) of data. It's estimated that the overall data of 120 Cr+ Indians would amount to over 12 Pb of data which would include individual demographic and biometric data.
With that we'd like to leave a question for the readers: What do you think about government's initiatives on AADHAAR and spending hundreds of crores of rupees on ensuring security. We're not sure who the Government is trying to protect the data from; because other countries already have the access to a lot of information through communication networks. Your thoughts, please?
