About PAWAN

The Punjab State Wide Area Network (PAWAN) has been establishedin the year 2010 at the state level primarily to connect various departments and enable effective and efficient transmission of information within the state and at the national level, so that the financial and social benefits that could be derived via Information Technology could be availed optimally.

PAWAN – Geographical representation

PAWANis a converged network for data, voice and video communications throughout the State of Punjab with the following salient features:

1. Dedicated state owned Network infrastructure to connect Government offices at State, District & block levels.
2. Designed to cater to the Governance information and communication requirements of whole State of Punjab.
3. Aims to create a dedicated Closed User Group (CUG) network among State’s Civil Secretariat, Departments, Corporations, Boards, District offices and Block offices.
4. Dedicated e-mail service of Punjab which is now being used by more than 9000  state government officials.

PAWAN acts as a vehicle for effective implementation of electronic governance(e-governance) acrossthestate. PAWAN network  helps the departments of government of Punjab to use common infrastructure for integration of their offices. This ensures improved administration by the government departments and reduction of cost by sharing of common resources.