Corporate houses manages and operates CSC
Information technology hardware leaders and other corporate houses are making financial and technical bids to set up, manage and operate CSCs
Information technology hardware leaders and other corporate houses are making financial and technical bids to set up, manage and operate CSCs
[This article was published in the October 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Consumers
The Union Cabinet (India) has approved a Rs. 5,742-crore scheme to set up one-lakh common service centres (CSCs) in rural areas across the country that would offer a basket of Government to citizens and business to customer services.
About 60-70 percent of the land area of India could be officially available on the Internet based on several wide parameters including latitude, longitude, altitude, water bodies and forest cover in about a year’s time.
Union Minister for Science and Technology and Ocean Development, India, Shri Kapil Sibal unveiled the proposal for creation of National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) as considered and approved by the Union Cabinet.