Rajiv Project Mission Unaccomplished

[This article was published in the July 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

More than five crore rural citizens of Andhra Pradesh have been bereft of promises of utility payment services, land records and information services and computer literacy, with a key partner walking out of the prestigious PPP-mode RAJiv Internet Village Centres project amid challenges of its sustainability.

India: AP plans for 2,000 Rajiv Internet Villages

Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (AP) directed officials to accelerate setting up of at least 2,000 Rajiv Internet Villages by the end of this 2006.