The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of India has initiated the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) to promote e-Governance in rural areas of India. NeGP is planning to setup 1,00,000 broadband-enabled Internet Common Service Centres (CSCs) in rural areas of the country to connect the villagers to the World Wide Web.

NeGp will cover 27 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) and eight support components, which would be implemented at central, state and local government levels. The government has decided to invest INR 23,000 million in next five years under this programme. The government has approved the proposal and it would be implemented n Public Private Partnership (PPP) model. It is expected that the project will create one lakh direct jobs and 2-3 lakh additional indirect jobs. The IT Department has also approved two pilot e-District projects covering six districts in UP and two districts in Asom. The objective is to computerise the backend workflows at the district level with appropriate Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), and to reduce the work load at the district level. The government has already created State Data Centres (SDCs) for the states to consolidate services, applications and infrastructure to provide efficient electronic delivery of G2G, G2C, and G2B services.

Source: New Kerala

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