GMail Login: With increase in the cyber snooping on
the Governments around the world, The Government of India had banned usage of
GMail for Official work by the Govt. Staff to protect the users ( Govt. Staff)
and Govt Data.
The email policy which is drafted by The
Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) in October 2013 is
implemented by the Government after taking the views from all the
ministries.This policy is aimed to protect the sensitive data of Government.
NOW GMAIL LOGIN IS NOT POSSIBLE IN GOVT. OFFICES
GMail Banned in Govt Offices : The
Government said in the notification that “The e-mail services provided by other
service providers shall not be used for any official communication,”. This
decision is took by Central Government and will be followed by both government
employees of both central government and state government including the UT
also.
This policy strictly says that no Government
employee should use the Gmail login or any other foreign E-Mail accounts like
Yahoo mail, HotMail for the official work by the staff, And the staff should
use the E-Mail services provided by only NIC.
Due to this policy all the government data
shall be passing from the Government Servers covering nearly 5-6 lakh Central
and State government employees.
And the notification also says that NIC will
be Monitoring the activities of the staff and have the power to access the
access, review, copy or delete any files on the server of any users (Govt.
Staff) for security reasons.