India, May 14 -- In a step towards strengthening digital infrastructure and data security, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) has decided to establish its own state-level data centre in Pune for storing and managing SSC and HSC examination records.

The proposed data centre will centralise information from all nine divisional boards, Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Nashik, Kolhapur, Amravati, Latur and Konkan and is expected to become operational within a year.

At present, the board stores its digital records through rented facilities operated by external agencies, involving expenditure running into crores of rupees annually.

Trigun Kulkarni, chairman of state board, said t...