The project envisages connecting state headquarters with 1,088 sub-divisions and 23 district headquarters.

Once the project is commissioned, the network will enable the state to have video-conferencing facility across government offices and enable them to communicate and conference with each other over VoIP (voice over IP) phones, which will reduce the government's phone bills considerably.

Various e-governance applications like RTO, healthcare, education, municipality would also ride on this network backbone, said Sanjay Kumar, managing director of Andhra Pradesh Technology Services.