Under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) the Government has sanctioned the scheme of Common Service Centres (CSCs) under which 1, 00, 000 kiosks are being established in rural ears. These kiosks are equipped with Computers, connectivity and trained and incentivized manpower. These Centers provide public services along with facilities of Internet and E-mail. The Scheme is being implemented on Public Private Partnership model with Government of India providing only revenue viability gap funding. Till 31st October, 2009, about 55, 000 CSCs have been established.
Under NeGp an outlay of Rs. 1649 crores was sanctioned for CSC Scheme. An amount of about Rs. 800 crores has been released under this scheme. Both Government to Citizen and Business to Citizen services will be provided by the CSCs. Some states have been facing non-availability of BSNL connectivity to the Centres. The Department of Information Technology (DIT) has sanctioned Rs. 550 crore to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) under the CSCs scheme for providing connectivity to CSCs in the country.
This was stated by Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology in Lok Sabha.
Source: PIB
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