Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh, today launched the 'Village Resource Centre', a single window facility to provide number of services for rural population emphasising the importance of modern science and technology in removing mass poverty .
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Dr M S Swaminathan Research Foundation have jointly set up these Village Resource Centres, which will provide a single window, a number of facilities of particular relevance to the development of the rural population. “Unless we take the benefits of modern science and technology to our villages, we cannot get rid of mass poverty which has afflicted millions and millions of our people”, Dr.Singh said while launching the Centre through a video link.