"The game plan is to leave behind the legacy of the British raj, which has been perfected by the Indian bureaucracy, with a plethora of new layers and silos, each working within departmental boundaries and pet-priorities," said NKC chairman Sam Pitroda.
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With an online population of 16.713 million users, India is ranked tenth — behind countries like US, China, Japan and South Korea.
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The true India is to be found not in its few cities, but in its villages.” Five decades later, there’s still plenty of truth in his words: Seventy-two percent of India resides in 550,000 villages. It’s another thing that rural establishments have never made a substantial mark on progress charts. As cities and towns leapfrogged into modernity, the village, it seemed, struggled to get off the blocks.
Aman Kumar Singh, CEO, CHiPS (Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society), has a unique problem—80 percent of his state’s population lives in rural areas, and the only way he can ensure that IT makes an impact is by taking IT to them.
According to sources in the Revenue department, one can soon get caste, birth and death certificates among others at the click of a mouse at Bhoomi kiosks across the State.