The objective of the Scheme is to create a secure Close User Group (CUG) Government Network for the purpose of delivering Government to Government (G2G) and Government to Citizen (G2C) services. The scope of project is to provide connectivity to Government Offices upto Block headquarters in Himachal Pradesh. HIMSWAN has been designed in such a way that it is expandable in future vertically (i.e. down to the Panchayat/ Village level) to cover Common Service Centres (CSCs) and horizontally (i.e. all offices/ locations within the same location).