Under the project, citizens in rural Karnataka get 39 services, ranging from pension, caste certificates, death/birth certificates and land documents to utility payments. Apart from government to citizen services, the project will include business to citizen services (insurance services, education) at an affordable cost.
With services available at the village level, rural citizens would not have to travel to the taluka and district headquarters, thus saving time and money.
The state government had made an outlay of Rs 30 crore for the project last year and had planned for 800 centres. The government now feels the technological benefits have not reached rural areas sufficiently. So Yeddyurappa appears keen on a more ambitious target.
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Quelle/Source: The Times of India, 18.07.2008
