Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot said that the state government has decided to allot IT kiosks only to women under this scheme. “These kiosks will be the front-end for delivering a range of government services and will cater to around 40,000 villages in the state – at least one CSC in a cluster of six villages. We have already started 407 kiosks besides identifying 1251 centres for putting up these kiosks,” he said.
The scheme envisages economic empowerment of rural women through this Rs 113 crore project based on public-private-partnership model. We would train rural women before allotting them the kiosk. In this way, we would be generating around 20000 (3 women at each kiosk) jobs for rural women," says a IT department official.
CSC kiosks are an extension to the e-mitra projects which is running successfully across the state. “We have reached till tehsil level through e-mitra and now through CSC, we would be reaching out to village population. We have decided to brand even CSC kiosks as e-mitra kiosks so that people can easily relate these kiosks with utility and government delivery centres," he said.
The emitra CSC kiosks would provide services including deposition of utility bills and government levies, birth and death registrations, land and revenue records, financial services like banking services, insurance and investment services besides providing Public Information Service like new government schemes and examination results to the rural customers. All these services can be availed of at the CSCs, through point-of-service hardware, which recognises customers through a combination of smartcards and biometrics such as fingerprints.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Rituraj Tiwari
Quelle/Source: The Economic Times, 18.02.2010
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