Bhubaneswar, Oct. 25 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) state-of-the-art greenfield Data Centre at Info Valley-II in Jatni, Khordha district during his one-day visit to Odisha.

The facility has been built on 18.55 acres of land at an estimated cost of Rs 169 crore. It is the RBI's second Data Centre after the one in Navi Mumbai and is expected to strengthen the country's digital financial infrastructure.

The Data Centre will securely store information related to digital transactions conducted through platforms such as Unified Payments Interface (UPI), National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS). It will also help ensure the continuity of banking ser...