nagpur the reserve bank of india rbi governor dr y v reddy was on a days visit to inaugurate a vital setup of the central bank in the city the rbi officials here kept his visit a closelyguarded secret even many of the staffers in the central bank were not aware of it his interaction was limited to a select group of officials and the governor also cancelled a slew of other programmes which he was earlier scheduled to attend when contacted by this correspondent at a city hotel reddy preferred not to comment on the facility he inaugurated nor did he speak a word about burning issues like falling dollar or rate cuts by the us fedhowever it has been learnt that the governor inaugurated a key data centre in the city which would function as a backup for storing all the vital financial data of the country with rbi this includes all the data which rbi gets from various sources during its course of work including emailsthe work on setting up the data centre began over a year ago with it major ibm being roped in the project informed sources in fact it is a part of the disaster management measures of the rbi especially in the wake of the 911 attack it also aims at stemming any loss arising out of a natural disaster which may destroy the rbi data there will be other two centres in the country at hyderabad and belapur navi mumbai which will work in a similar manner however sources said the nagpur centre has been the first to be inaugurated it will function using cuttingedge technology as a result if a computer in mumbai records data it will also be stored in nagpur so in case of the computer in mumbai facing a snag the data can be retrieved from nagpur said a source the system will be upgraded in due course of timeshishiraryatimesgroupcom