Sajal Roy had invested ₹1.60 lakh in a common service centre (CSC) of Sahaj e-Village programme at Ramgopalpur village, in South 24-Parganas district of West Bengal, in 2007, with the intention to offer e-governance services. Unfortunately, the e-governance project did not take off in majority of the States, including Bengal. Roy had to depend on…
The scheme, part of the Central government’s National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), will be implemented in all 30 districts with the setting up of 5,713 CSCs across gram panchayats in the coming months. The CSCs will provide hundreds of Government to Citizen (G2C) and Business to Citizen (B2C) services such as payment of utility bills, booking of railway…
Electronic learning – the use of electronic media and devices in education – is likely to be as effective as traditional methods for training health professionals, says a study. Students acquire knowledge and skills through online and offline e-learning as well as or better than they do through traditional teaching, showed the findings of the…
Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that e-commerce investment in India has been rising and will stay in India. “Our position on retail FDI is well known, that is part of our national manifesto, and even the investors know it very well, we have come with a massive majority,” he said adding, “However,…