<span style="color: #222222;">In Jammu and Kashmir, the 3rd Board of Directors (BoD) meeting of Kashmir Power Distribution Company Limited (KPDCL) was held under the chairmanship of Principal Secretary Power Development and Information Departments, Rohit Kansal at Civil Secretariat in Srinagar today.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The BoDs held a detailed discussion on improving the IT infrastructure of the company besides other impediments faced by the company for effective service delivery to the public.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The board approved an amount of Rs 34.89 crore for improving the IT infrastructure under Annual Maintenance Contract service. This will include upgradation of the Data Center cum Customer care Centre.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Board permitted KPDCL to hire the services of IT consultants for improving security, firewalls, intrusion prevention system, intrusion detection system, access control switches and other online services in view of the recent ransomware attack on the data centre of the company. The Board also approved the plans for setting up an HR consultancy for recruiting the staff on fast track basis in order to meet the requirement of additional manpower besides operationalising other divisions of the KPDCL.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Board accorded sanction to operationalisation of welfare fund for the employees in order to meet any exigency of the employee in case of death, injury or any other issue.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The board also approved the establishment of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA) and Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) for online fault rectification. These systems  will provide real time monitoring and control software applications besides analysing system behaviour in response to operator actions.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Managing Director, KPDCL informed the board that out of 103 servers of the Data Centre, 98 servers have been fully restored while the process of restoration on remaining servers is going on. Data centre was recently plagued by a ransomware attack. </span><br />''