Largest contract from Government of India to automate healthcare administration, benefiting millions
Bangalore, March 12, 2009
Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a leading provider of IT and business transformation services today announced that it has been awarded the largest IT outsourcing contract from Employees State Insurance Corporation(ESIC). ESIC is a statutory corporation, under the Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India (GoI), and is the implementing agency of a pioneering Social Security Scheme in India.

Wipro has been selected to implement ESIC's Project Panchdeep which is aimed at improving healthcare services to its beneficiaries, by providing online facilities to employers and insured people for registration, payment of premium and disbursement of cash benefits. Other modules will provide HR, Finance and General Administration programs for increasing the organisational efficiency. The ambitious project was mandated by ESI Act 1948 with a focus on creating a medicare backbone for the marginalised sections of society.

ESIC invited bids for Project Panchdeep on Built-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) model through a global tender published on 25th November 2008. Three bids were received from the top 3 IT giants namely TCS, Wipro and Infosys and after a detailed project consultancy, efficient evaluation and a very fair & transparent process ESIC awarded the 6 and half year project to Wipro.

Anand Sankaran, Senior Vice President & Head- India and Middle East, Wipro Infotech said "It is an honour to be awarded one of the most prestigious e-Governance projects. This is a strategic relationship for Wipro and we are committed to making it a showcase in the e-governance domain. The Labour Ministry is very supportive and is keen on ensuring a quick roll-out of the project since it directly benefits the common citizens of India."

Ranbir Singh, Head Government & Defence, Wipro Infotech added, "We at Wipro believe that our e-governance expertise coupled with the cutting edge technology we offer, will help provide better service to ESIC employees as well as citizens. We are committed to providing a scalable solution for Project Panchdeep by incorporating best practices and selecting an optimal combination of proven technology platform and architecture to meet ESIC's business and functional requirements and SLAs."

The five parts of this national importance project are termed as Pehchan, Milap, Pashan, Dhanwantri and Pragati which include identification of more than one crore subscribers and their family members covered under ESIC, connecting all locations of ESIC (1Head Office, 51 Regional / Sub Regional / Divisional Offices, 620 Branch Offices, 144 Hospitals, 1388 Dispensaries and State Directorates), Datacentre / Disaster recovery, Hospital Information Management System, ERP and maintenance respectively.

About ESIC
Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), a statutory Corporation, under the Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India (GoI), is the implementing agency of a pioneering Social Security Scheme in India. The scheme provides social security protection to over 1 crore industrial workers and their family members in all over the country within the ambit of ESI Act 1948.

About Wipro Infotech
Wipro Infotech, a division of the US$5 billion Wipro Limited, provides enterprise customers with high value Information Technology Products, Software Services, Solutions and Consulting Services in India and the Middle East. Headquartered at Bangalore, Wipro Infotech serves customers in India through a network of 22 offices and 170 service locations across the country. It also has regional offices across the Middle East serving the region.

About Wipro Limited
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