**Executive Summary**
This document discusses India's efforts to build a secure, scalable, and AI-ready cloud infrastructure (MeghRaj) to support digital governance, private sector collaboration, and citizen empowerment. It highlights the growing demand for cloud services and the expansion of data centers in India, which are expected to increase 4 to 5 times by 2030. The information was submitted on December 12, 2025.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Cloud Infrastructure Development:**
* India is developing a secure, scalable, and AI-ready cloud infrastructure to support digital governance.
* "MeghRaj" provides secure, scalable, and elastic cloud facilities for e-Governance services. Key features include elasticity, scalability, pay-per-use metering, self-service provisioning, and rapid application deployment.
* **Data Center Expansion:**
* Cloud data center capacity in India is estimated to grow 4 to 5 times by 2030.
* Current capacity is approximately 1,280 MW, serving critical sectors like banking and power.
* Expansion is driven by digitalization, AI adoption, and increasing cloud service usage.
* **Service Providers:**
* NIC offers cloud services to Ministries/Departments. As of the report date, 2,170 Ministries/Departments have hosted cloud-based applications on MeghRaj.
* The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has empanelled 26 cloud service providers.
* Empaneled providers have been audited by STQC according to international security standards (ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and ISO 20000).
* NIC also engages private players through open tender for cloud service provisioning.
**Impact Analysis**
**Central/State Ministries/Departments**
* **Impact:** Increased access to secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud services for e-Governance.
* **Action Required:** Evaluate and adopt cloud-based applications and services offered through MeghRaj and empanelled providers to enhance digital service delivery.
**National Informatics Centre (NIC)**
* **Impact:** NIC plays a vital role in offering cloud services and enabling digital transformation across government entities.
* **Action Required:** Continue to provide secure, scalable cloud services to Ministries/Departments and engage private players to provision cloud services.
**Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)**
* **Impact:** Opportunity to offer cloud services to government entities through empanelment.
* **Action Required:** Maintain compliance with security standards and ensure the delivery of high-quality cloud services.
**Government of India**
* **Impact:** Supports the Digital India initiative, promotes digital governance, enables private sector collaboration, and empowers citizens.
* **Action Required:** Continue investment in AI and data center infrastructure to support growth.
Key Entities Referenced
MeghRaj: A national cloud infrastructure established under the Digital India initiative to provide secure, scalable, and elastic cloud facilities for e-Governance services.
Ministry of Electronics & IT: The ministry responsible for empanelling cloud service providers and promoting digital governance.
Digital India: A government initiative under which MeghRaj was established to meet cloud requirements.
National Informatics Centre (NIC): An organization offering cloud services to various Ministries/Departments.
Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) Directorate: The entity responsible for auditing and empanelling cloud service providers.
Ministry of Electronics & IT
India building secure, scalable and AI-ready
cloud infrastructure to support digital
governance
Cloud data centre capacity in India estimated to grow 4 to 5
times by 2030
प्रव तथ: 12 DEC 2025 2:45PM by PIB Delhi
India is building a secure, scalable and AI-ready cloud infrastructure to support digital governance, private
sector collaboration and citizen empowerment.
The growing demand for cloud services across Government, private and social sectors is driven by the
country’s digital transformation and increasing use of AI-enabled applications.
MeghRaj
To meet the cloud requirements of Government of India, a national cloud infrastructure has been
established under the Digital India initiative.
The “GI Cloud”, known as MeghRaj, provides secure, scalable and elastic cloud facilities for delivery of e-
Governance services.
The salient features of the “GI Cloud-MeghRaj” include elasticity, scalability, pay per use metering, self
service provisioning, rapid deployment of applications, on demand service provisioning, etc.
National Informatics Centre (NIC) offers the cloud services to various Ministries/Departments. As on date,
2,170 Ministries/Departments have hosted their cloud-based applications on “MeghRaj”.
To support the cloud requirements of Central/State Ministries/Departments, Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology has also empanelled cloud services of twenty-six (26) cloud service providers.
These cloud service providers have been empaneled after successful audit by Standardisation Testing and
Quality Certification (STQC) Directorate with reference to international security standards (ISO 27001,
ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and ISO 20000). The details of these cloud service providers are available at http
s://ambud.meity.gov.in/.
NIC, as a Government based cloud service providers, also engages private players through open tender for
provisioning of the cloud services.
The National Data Centres deliver cloud services to Government departments and are designed to
safeguard the cloud services from potential threats by implementing a layered security framework
comprising established practices, and procedures.
Growth in data centresThe expansion of data centres in the country is being propelled by the growing digitalisation and rapid
adoption of AI across both Government and private sectors, accompanied by the increasing adoption of
cloud services.
Industry estimates indicate that cloud data centre capacity in India has reached approximately 1,280 MW,
largely serving critical sectors such as banking, power and other critical public infrastructure. According to
estimates, it will grow by 4-5 times by 2030.
Global technology companies are already investing significantly in India’s AI and data-center ecosystem.
Google has announced a USD 15 billion AI Hub in Visakhapatnam, its largest investment in India, while
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is setting up a USD 8.3 billion data center in Maharashtra.
This information was submitted by Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology
Shri Jitin Prasada in Rajya Sabha on 12.12.2025.
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