Microsoft recently became one of the first global cloud service providers to achieve full accreditation by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for the Government of India. MeitY lists accredited cloud service providers in the government Cloud Services Directory, which enables public sector organizations to compare and procure those services.
Making government services available to citizens online is a key part of the Digital India programme which aims to “transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.” With the MeitY accreditation, referred to by MeitY as empanelment, Microsoft is now positioned to fully partner with India’s public sector organizations as they move to reshape India’s economic landscape.
Read about it in the Azure blog.