New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- The Registrar General of India (RGI) is looking to outsource its overall operations and maintenance of IT services, including cyber security, for the Census 2027, people familiar with the development said, adding that the contract will be restricted to central public sector units (CPSUs). A request for proposal (RFP) in this regard has recently been issued by the RGI and the government is expected to spend around Rs.50 crore for the data security and other related IT services. Once selected, the concerned company will manage the IT infrastructure including the RGI's National Data Centre in Delhi and two disaster recovery sites at Lucknow and Bengaluru for three years. "The IT services will be outsourced to a CPSU to provide managed services to maintain the National Data Centre (NDC) and two Disaster Recovery Site (DRS) - Lucknow and Bengaluru - hosting online census applications. These data centres have the latest technology using state of art compute, storage, network and security and are already properly secured using state of art technology including next generation firewall, DDoS protection, patch management, endpoint protection and web application firewall," said an officer. The officer added, "security of the Census data of 1.5 billion people, house listing and related information is important"....