After completing the initial one-year contract with Google, the Tshering Tobgay government has renewed the service for three more years, and the new deal was signed around six months ago.
While the government has not revealed the total cost of the subscription, officials said that the government is paying Google Apps for 9,000 accounts for three years. For its initial one-year deal, the government was reportedly charged Nu 158 (2.5 U.S. dollars) per account a month.
The government has asked the education sector to move onto the platform, and was provided with 250,000 Google accounts for free.