HCL Infosystems bags an order from Census of India

HCL Infosystems India announced the awarding of a prestigious contract by the
Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India for Census of India. HCL
Infosystems will be collaborating with the Government of India to digitise the
data generated from Census of India project for the year 2010-11. This project
will involve an epic task of digitising data collected across the country
including maintenance, indexing, scanning and storage at a central repository.

Speaking on the occasion JV Ramamurthy, President and COO, HCL Infosystems
said "HCL Infosystems has a legacy of partnering and implementing large nation
building projects successfully over the years in the country and to be involved
with the Census of India is a matter of pride for us."

The project will involve the processing of all data captured including images
and would also require extraction of information in English language format.
Specialised software and other tools like Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)
will be deployed for extraction and cross verification. Under the scope, HCL
Infosystems will digitise the information gathered from various survey forms and
images. The information will then be stored at a central repository gathered
from 15 different project locations across the country.