Karnataka Government Secretariat housed in Vidhana Soudha, Multi Storied Building and Vikas Soudha are connected on Local Area Network (LAN). This secretariat Local Area Network is set up to interconnect all the administrative departments housed in these three buildings. This LAN generally called Secretariat Local Area Network (SECLAN) is extensively used by the Karnataka Government Secretariat to run various e-Governance applications such as File Monitoring System, Letter Monitoring System and Attendance Monitoring System apart from Intranet and Internet. Each of these facilities has separate LAN established for all the users housed in the facility and the interconnectivity among these three facilities is established through fiber optic cables.
Under the National e Governance Action Plan, Karnataka State Secretariat LAN(SECLAN) is being implemented by the Centre for e-Governance. The GoK has proposed a Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) model for the implementation and management of the SECLAN for a period of five years.
The following were steps involved in Establishing SECLAN;