The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) is believed to have developed a secure handset to be used by bureaucrats and ministers in the central and state governments for classified intra-departmental communication.
Moreover, C-DOT plans to roll out around 2,000 such handsets, once the prototype is approved by an inter-ministerial panel.
The handsets will initially be allotted to senior bureaucrats and central ministers once the secure communications network for facilitating such confidential calls between government departments is launched, by end-November 2011.
