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Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Secretary said that Nagaland is the first state to have introduced this Space Based Information Kiosk in the North East. She said that any department could come forward by depositing Rs. 50,000 lakhs to have such Kiosk in their office. The Chief Secretary further said that with the introduction and release of the space based information portal in the state, the policy and planning of the state will be easier and there will be effective implementation of the government activities and developmental programme. However, she stressed, updating should be done from time to time.

The kiosks in the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area will soon be redeveloped and given a modern look along with display panels for advertisements, according to officials. While the NDMC has built the first sample kiosk near the Constitution Club at Rafi Marg in Lutyen's Delhi, it plans to redevelop 30 such kiosks in the first phase and ultimately up to 250 kiosks, they said. The redevelopment is being done under the Smart City project.

"The kiosks with a size of 6x6 feet will be developed by complete RCC structure with terrazzo flooring and wall along with the use granite and tiles. These kiosks will be available with electrical fittings," said NDMC Vice Chairman Satish Upadhyay. It can be easily cleaned through a normal washing it does not require any other special maintenance, he added.

Many of the digital kiosks, installed across the city at strategic locations to help residents access various services, have fallen into disrepair due to lack of maintenance, residents said.

The solar-powered kiosks, intended to facilitate bill payments, ticket booking, navigation and provide city information services, were strategically placed by Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) in localities (50) and at major transit points (25), including the bus stand and railway station.

Have you lost your phone and want to make an emergency call or looking to charge your phone on the road? Well, the digital kiosk in the the smart city of Bhubaneswar will solve all your problems now.

The kiosk, which was developed by five engineering student-turned entrepreneurs, is called Human Interactive Interface Systems — HII-Systems or HII Bhubaneswar. It is equipped with a 55 inch display screen and is a combination of a smart digital kiosk and a digital billboard.

‘Explore Amritsar’ will assist tourists, locals about key locations

Under the Smart City project, ‘Explore Amritsar’, self-service tourist information kiosks are being installed in the city to assist tourists and local resiodents in finding key locations.

The Amritsar Smart City Limited (ASCL) would install these kiosks at 20 locations under the pilot project. The locations include War Memorial, Urban Haat, Partition Museum, Valmiki Tirath Sthal, VR Ambarsar, Basement, VR Ambarsar 5th Floor, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Panorama, Durgiana Mandir, Sada Pind, Jallianwala Bagh Near Post Office, Hall Bazaar Ramada, Golden Temple Plaza, Naresh Multi Store, Mall of Amritsar Ground Floor, Mall of Amritsar 2nd Floor, Gobindgarh Fort, Shaheed Baba Deep Singh, Lawrence Road, Nehru Complex, Bus Stand Platform Number 8 and Bus Stand Platform Number 55.

In a bid to enhance its e-governance mechanism, Tamil Nadu will be setting up electronically enabled kiosks operated by authorised service providers across the State to offer public services provided by the government.

According to official sources, the State is currently framing rules for efficient delivery of public services by one or more authorised service providers through e-kiosks.

These kiosks would deliver public service like licence permit, certificate, sanction or approval and the receipt of payment of money by electronic means.

The Indian telecentre project aims to set up one lakh telecentres, or Common Service Centres (CSCs), in rural areas under a PPP arrangement. It is the largest such project in the world. Telecentres are meant to be delivery points for e-governance services as well as other B2C and B2B services 'for the common man'. Our field research in Uttar Pradesh and Meghalaya shows that criticism regarding commercial unviability, high prices and entertainment-oriented usage of telecentres has some validity. However, while the profile of telecentre users compared to the underlying population profile does exhibit a skew indicating a digital divide in the village, this is not unexpected given the severe economic, social and cultural challenges facing digital adoption.

The kiosk ensures protection to the sample collecting doctor & prevents wastage of personal protection equipment (PPE).

Agartala Smart City has designed and handed over a Mobile COVID-19 sample collection kiosk to the city's Chief Medical Officer (CMO). The kiosk ensures protection to the sample collecting doctor & prevents wastage of personal protection equipment (PPE). This initiative is a major step by Agartala in the fight against Covid-19.

In a major step to tame the coronavirus, a mobile Covid-19 sample collection kiosk has been designed under the Agartala Smart City project and if successful, more such kiosks would be developed, top officials said on Wednesday.

The newly designed mobile kiosk, first in the eastern and north east India, was handed over to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of West Tripura district on Tuesday and it already started collection of samples of the people.

Known as i-serve, these kiosks will look at providing other utilities in the education segment, apart from primarily providing certain insurance and ticketing services, says Anirudh Prabhakaran, Executive Director and President, South Asia, 3i Infotech. He claims that the company has been seeing a positive traction at the kiosks.

In Hyderabad, eSeva has become a mundane part of retired government official P. V. Subbarao’s life. For the 70-year-old, a lack of tech-savviness doesn’t come in the way of using a Web-based service because the eSeva kiosks are manned by operators.

Sometime he deputes his watchman to pay his electricity and water bills for him via the kiosks. The kiosks can also be used to make yearly payments like property tax.

The e-Kiosks will be set up under the e-governance plan.

The scheme to set up 100,000 common service centres (CSCs), through which villagers would be able to access a host of services, was launched in 2006.

In June 2009, President Pratibha Patil said in her inaugural address to the Lok Sabha that a total 250,000 CSCs would be established in three years’ time with the help of private partners.

The state government is also working to computerise revenue courts as well public distribution system and HIMSWAN (state wide area network) to be extended down to the sub-tehsil level, Dhumal said in his inaugural speech at the two-day workshop on national e-governance plan here.

This was revealed by Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister while inaugurating the two-day long Workshop on National e-governance Plan, organised by the Department of Information Technology, Himachal Pradesh in collaboration with the Union Ministry of Information Technology in Shimla today.

Panchayat and Rural Development Department Principal Secretary M N Roy said, “Our state is the first to sign the master service agreement, which is a part of the national e-governance plan.”

The insurer has entered into a strategic partnership to this effect with the government of Rajasthan. e-Mitra is an e-governance initiative of the state government.

Customers can now walk into the listed e-Mitra kiosks, produce their acknowledgement letters and policy numbers, and make their premium payments in cash.

The two students-Rajat Sethi and Manoj Payardha- have improvised on Soekris net4801, a small box equipped with a single board, low-power embedded processor, specifically meant for network deployments. It acts as a kiosk-controller and is a proprietary product of US based Soekris Inc. The students have used buses and rail (as the bus-kiosk-gateway model), which pass through rural parts of the country and can be used as ferries to carry information. One of the kiosk controller (Soekris) can be planted in the bus, the other placed inside the kiosk. When the bus/train stops at a certain location, these two devices, loaded with relevant softwares will catch signals from each other.