And the day is not far off when we see our country cousins enlivening the Assembly proceedings with their native wit, wisdom and scholarship, besides the existing resident members of the august House.
Launching Softrack.net 2.0., a rural E-Governance initiative developed by Vortex here on Wednesday, he said this would strengthen the basis of democracy.
Once Rajiv Internet kiosks are ready, he said e-petition would be introduced where the issues raised by the villagers would be discussed in the Assembly.
Suresh Reddy said IT solutions should be used in bridging rural-urban divide and remove economic disparities. In this regard, he said government private organisations, public representatives and bureaucrats should take part.
Recalling that at present it is taking nearly 30 days to move a file from the revenue inspector to the Collector, he said electronic transfer would facilitate the passage of a file through various levels of administration the same day.
Various IT initiatives should help improve economic status of common people at the bottom level, he said. Reddy lauded Vijayawada MP L Rajgopal as a ‘role model’ for using technology to keep in touch with the villagers in his constituency.
Rajgopal said IT applications should be made available in the villages to enable the educated youth to offer value added services to prevent their migration to the urban areas.
It should be used effectively to improve living conditions of the villagers, he said.
Vortex CEO VVV Satya said Softrack.net has enhanced features that will allow monitoring of rural issues and grievances and also to monitor funds through various schemes like MPLADs.
It will also assist MPs and MLAs to work on the development of rural areas by providing them with relevant information.
It will help the citizens by giving visibility to the rural issues and bringing them to the notice of the authorities concerned, he added.
Hyderabad Software Exporters Association president U Kedarnath Udiyavar presided.
Microsoft Rural Initiatives head Tarun Malik said they plan to roll out 50,000 kisoks over the next three years to provide value added services to citizens through their rural IT initiative ‘Saksham’.
In the first year, he said they would start over 10,00 kisoks in 300 of 600 districts in close partnership with various state governments and other private companies, he said. Softrack.net would now be made available on Microsoft's rural portal, he added.
Quelle: newindpress, 30.03.2006
