Government roles out a massive 96,500 e-governance ICT centres in all states and UTs
The government, as part of its National e-Governance Plan has activated 96,500 Common Service Centres to support the national service delivery mechanism. The government plans to install 100000 such centres in 31 states and Union Territories.
THE PURPOSE of rolling out the Common Service Centres (CSCs) is to take Information Communication Technology (ICT) to the farthest part of the country. Out of the one lakh Common Service Centres that will be installed, 12,510 of them will be in naxal-affected areas of 11 states, as per a government statement.
The plan to put up the Common Service Centres was approved in 2006 as part of the National e-Governance Plan to give a physical face to the government’s service delivery mechanism. By April 2011, connectivity had been provided to 67,883 Common Service Centres, and the Department of Information Technology (DIT) has an Online Monitoring Tool to monitor the performance of Common Service Centres. The project, costing Rs 1649 crore with a substantial investment from the private sector, has also experienced delay as establishing Common Service Centres was delayed due to taking of time for the selection of new Service Centre Agencies in Haryana, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. Connectivity to all Common Service Centres will be ensured by DIT who has asked BSNL to provide Wireline and WiMax broadband connectivity to all Common Service Centres. The project to open Common Service Centres has been implemented on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model with a three-tier implementation framework in which a state agency enters into an agreement with a service agency, which in turn appoints village entrepreneurs to manage the Common Service Centres.
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