HCL Tech roped in for data support

25/04/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,CHENNAI

Tamil Nadu has tied up with HCL Technologies to set up a state-of-the-art Disaster Management - Data Analytics Center, as part of strengthening its efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

HCL is also helping improve and expand the State’s disaster management helpline (1070) through technological upgradation, manpower assistance and effective reporting mechanisms, according to a statement.

The data analytics centre, housed in Ezhilagam building, Chepauk, and supported by HCL, will help capture data trends from across districts, in real time, and display them live to inform the government’s future decisions on the degree of response needed for each district and the graded relaxation of the current lockdown restrictions to resume economic activities, it added.

“Our improved disaster management helpline will enable us to respond to citizens’ queries in a timely and effective manner,” J. Radhakrishnan, principal secretary/commissioner of revenue administration and State relief commissioner, said in a statement.