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  • India: It Services accessed by Rural poor

    Over 10,000 Common Service Centres set up in villages

    Over 10,300 Common Service Centre (CSC) have been set up in eight States to provide the rural population in remote areas with a mix of government, private and social sector services. The services which are the initiatives of the Department of Information Technology are both IT based and non-IT based. The states are Jharkhand, Haryana, West Bengal, Bihar, Tripura, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.

    The Centres have come up as part of the Government’s plan to establish one lakh Common Service Centres (CSCs) in six lakh villages in the country. The establishment of most of the Centres is likely to be completed by next year.

  • India: Jagatsinghpur touches new feat in e-governance

    A touch screen project called e-Soochana Sahayata counter will be launched in the district headquarters soon for the benefit of the citizens, collector Mr Satyabrata Sahu said, while inaugurating a video conference studio at the collectorate today.

    The video conference facility has been set up with hardware and technical support of National Informatics Centre. Today, the video conference studio was formally inaugurated by Mr Sahu. Mr Sitanath Rath, OAS-I, project director, DRDA-cum-ADM, sub-collector Mr Debendra Singh and other officials were present during the inauguration.

  • India: Jammu-Kashmir govt takes IT to villages

    Jammu and Kashmir is in for an IT revolution in rural areas as 1,109 kiosks will come up in 6,654 villages to boost government&aposs initiatives in the sphere of e-governance and generate employment for the youth.

    Under an agreement signed by Jammu and Kashmir Bank chairman Haseeb Drabu and Principal Secretary (IT) Arun Kumar here today 1,109 kiosks would be set up in all the 22 districts of the state. It is projected to generate 2,000 jobs in the sector.

  • India: Kerala: Hospital Kiosks complete five years of service

    Kerala is making rapid strides in e-governance implementation and one such project, the Janasevanakendram Hospital Kiosk project has completed five years of service. The first Hosptial Kiosk was launched on August 5, 2005 by Information Kerala Mission (IKM), the flagship e-governance project of the Government of Kerala under the Local Self Government (LSG) Department. The Hospital Kiosk enables online registration of births and deaths directly from the hospitals in Kerala.

    On its fifth anniversary, 325 Janasevanakendram Hospitals Kiosks are functioning throughout Kerala providing instant online registration. They are installed at 60 Government Hospitals and 265 private hospitals across the state. The statistics available with the Department show that about 60% of births in the state are being registered using this service and on an average about 30,000 families are benefitted from this facility. As per the Registration of Births and Deaths Act; live births, stillbirths (foetal deaths with a period of pregnancy 28 weeks or more) and deaths have to be registered with the local body - municipality, corporation or panchayat.

  • India: Kiosks launched in rural areas in West Bengal

    Two kiosks under a pilot project in West Bengal were on Wednesday launched at the gram panchayat level in two districts to assess information needs of the rural people and viability and sustainability of their operation on commercial basis through women self help groups.

    Launching the kiosks on-line at the state secretariat, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that these would help deliver the shared visions of Microsoft and the state government to employ the benefits of information communication technology to catalyse progress and access to information, education, e-governance, telemedicine services amongst others within the rural hinterland.

  • India: Kiosks: helping you to help yourself

    Kiosks have been around for a while now. Initially their use was restricted to distributing information, but now they're becoming more interactive, and applications such as printing boarding passes are being rolled out.

    If self-service is the best service, as many have claimed, interactive kiosks are perhaps the proof of the pudding. Combining ease and sophistication, they are fast becoming a style statement for companies that want to impress their customers. Plus, as is the case with all self-service mechanisms such as ATMs and Internet banking, the cost of getting customers to do their own work is proving irresistible for the service industry. From the vendor perspective, AGS Infotech, Intercode Solutions and SoftAid Computers are looking to tap this market by providing customised kiosks.

  • India: Madhya Pradesh: Action to set up common service centers soon

    Minister for Information and Technology Kailash Vijayvargiya while addressing a meeting of the advisory committee of the department yesterday said that action to set up common service centers in the state would be initiated soon under the e-governance plan. These centers would help rendering fast services to the common man in the field of education, health, entertainment besides providing various data and high level videos. He informed that as many as 9232 common service centers (e-kiosks) would be set up in the state. Also, employment would be made available to 16 thousand individuals indirectly through this project. Applications are being received for this work, he added.

  • India: Maharashtra plans 9,000 kiosks for e-gov

    The Maharashtra government plans to set up around 9,000 kiosks across the state on a build, operate, own and transfer (BOOT) basis to mark the year 2008 as the ‘Year of IT and e-governance’. It is currently evaluating the bids it has received on various parameters including the technology to be used and user-friendliness of the interface.

    The kiosks will offer government services like land records, various licences, getting cast or domicile certificates, filing of VAT return, payment of motor vehicle tax, and enrolment forms for the state government’s pension scheme for the old and destitute. The operators, running these kiosks, will be allowed to collect user charges to recover their investment.

  • India: Maharashtra: Pune: 67 in all, but only 20% utilisation of civic utility kiosks

    It’s been over two years that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) created 67 multi-utility kiosks in the city to facilitate easy processing of birth and death certificates, property tax collections, pan card processing and so on for the convenience of the citizens. But the kiosks are underutilised as people are either unaware of the facility or are reluctant to make use of it.

    Vilas Kanade, deputy commissioner (Taxes), PMC, said, “In last 10 months, we had a total of 5,15,000 transactions related to property tax out of which only 1,01,468 have taken place through kiosks. This means that the utilisation of the kiosks is less than 20 per cent. We have collected Rs 88,67,00,000 through the transactions at these kiosks.”

  • India: Malda shows the way to information kiosks

    The principal secretary of panchayat and rural development, Mr MN Roy said on Saturday that the state government wanted to offer a ‘transparent administration’ based on the latest information technology thus providing ‘citizen centric services’.

    “As the first step Malda administration, for the first time in the state, has installed two information kiosks," said Mr Roy after inaugurating them at the Malda district magistrate's office and Malda zilla parishad's office today. “We need to update information from various important departments in the interest of the people regularly so that within a year the people can feel its importance,” he added.

  • India: Microsoft, Hughes to Set Up 5,000 Broadband-Enabled ICT Rural Kiosks

    Microsoft Corp. India Pvt. Ltd. and Hughes Network Systems have announced their commitment to work together on rolling out 5,000 broadband enabled ICT kiosks across the country.

    The ICT kiosks will be deployed across 200 small towns and rural regions pan India and will be operated on a franchisee-based model offering budding entrepreneurs across the rural landscape to use technology for e-commerce, education and e-governance.

  • India: MS-Hughes team up for rural project

    Microsoft Corporation India and Hughes will work together to roll out 5,000 broadband-enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) kiosks under a rural computing initiative called Project Saksham. The kiosks will be deployed across 200 small towns and rural regions in India and will be operated on a franchisee basis. The targeted applications are e-commerce, education and e-governance.

  • India: Mumbai: For work at ward offices, BMC’s alternative: 250 i-way cyber cafes

    Civic body’s tie-up with Sify will give Mumbaiites easy access to a range of services: payment of water & property tax, renewal of licences

    Long queues and inconvenient timings at the local ward office to get a birth certificate or pay a bill are soon set to become history. The BMC has tied up with Internet company Sify to provide these services through its 250 i-way cyber cafes across Mumbai.

  • India: Municipal Corporation of Delhi to set up 24x7 information kiosks

    Imagine a one-stop solution for paying your phone bills, electricity bills, charging cell phones and even getting the timings of the movies playing in the multiplex in your neighbourhood.

    The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is trying to do just that by setting up information kiosks outside your colony and in the market next door. These air-conditioned and weather-resistant information kiosks will be operated by a private firm and will help the cash-strapped MCD boost its revenue collections.

  • India: New Dehli: Bartronics to set up 2,000 MCD kiosks

    Technology solutions provider Bartronics today bagged a project for setting up 2,000 kiosks of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, with an aim to mop up Rs 5,000 crore over the next nine years.

    The kiosks will act as a data bank of local consumers, service providers and businesses, and a slew of facilities will be provided to citizens like utility bill payments, and air, train and cinema ticketing, the company said in a statement.

  • India: PCOs on their way to become e-kiosks

    BSNL has tied up with Intel to upgrade PCOs into electronic information and transaction kiosks

    Soon, there is going to be more reasons to walk into a public call office (PCO) in Bangalore rather than just making calls. Hundreds of PCOs in the city and elsewhere in Karnataka are now set to be upgraded into e-kiosks in order to provide multiple utility services to customers like booking travel tickets, pay a variety of taxes, chat, browse and much more.

  • India: Private banks, companies yet to tap rural IT kiosks

    Number of kiosks to be increased to 250,000, IT department working on monetizing services to attract private firms

    Four years since its inception, the common service centres (CSCs) project, which aims to provide a single window of access for government and private services in villages, is struggling to become viable.

    The project, by the department of information technology (IT), was started in 2006 with the objective of setting up a network of 100,000 computer-enabled kiosks by 2008.

  • India: Rajasthan to roll out all-woman kiosks

    Rajasthan government is planning to set up 6000 women-exclusive CSC IT kiosks under the central government's Common Service Centre (CSC) scheme, a part of National e-governance project.

    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.

  • India: Rajasthan: 6600 rural computer kiosks to open

    Close on the heels of kicking off a massive programme for 'smart cards' to about 50 lakh rural households just months ahead of polls, the state government in a major initiative towards e-governance is planning to set up computer kiosks, known as common service centres (CSC) in the rural areas in a big way.

    Principal Secretary Information technology C K Mathew said about 6,600 computers kiosks would come up in the rural areas owned by women. He said out of the seven divisions in the state letter of intents (LoI) have been issued for setting up about 3,500 CSCs in four divisions on Tuesday to CMS, which would provide the infrastructure support to the programme.

  • India: Srei plans 25,000 kiosks

    Srei Sahaj e-Village Ltd, a subsidiary of Kolkata-based SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd (SIFL), would set up 25,000 IT kiosks to be known as common service centers (CSC) across six states, with a total investment of around Rs 1000 crore over the next two years.

    The six states are West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

    Under this project, every center would provide a bouquet of services starting from e-governance, e-commerce to e-learning and thereby linking rural areas with the entire world. "We will set up 25,000 IT kiosks in six states in east and south India, for setting up rural IT infrastructure, within a span of two years," said Hemant Kanoria, chairman and managing director of SIFL, said here.

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