NIC to develop email service for 5 mn govt staff with security features

Officials can be able to log-in only through the registered devices

The government will launch in a few months an email service for 5 million employees because it is looking at securing communication between various departments. 

The National Informatics Centre (NIC), which manages the information technology (IT) infrastructure of the government, will develop the service with a multi-pronged security layer. The service has various security features, which will preclude any external attack on emails.

According to a senior official in the communications and IT ministry, geofencing will be done with the email service, which means an employee will be able to log in only from a location identified as base. When