Explanation:

Under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), State Wide Area Network (SWAN) has been identified as an element of the core infrastructure for supporting various e-Governance initiatives. The scope of project is to provide connectivity to Government Offices and Integrated Community Service Centres at State, District, Sub-Divisional, Tehsil and Block headquarters in Himachal Pradesh. HIMSWAN has been designed in such a way that it is expandable in future vertically (i.e. down to the Panchayat/ Village level) to cover Common Service Centres (CSCs) and horizontally (i.e. all offices/ locations within the same location).