96,500 CSCs Functional under NeGP.

India has rolled out over 94,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs), of the proposed one lakh, in 31 states and Union Territories to take Information Communication Technology (ICT) to the remotest part of the country. 12,510 of these are located in the naxal affected areas of 11 States, a government statement said.

Ten States including Gujarat, Kerala, Sikkim, Tripura, Jharkhand, Pondicherry, Manipur, Chandigarh, Goa and Delhi have completed 100 per cent roll out.

Under the Scheme, connectivity has been provided to 67,883 CSCs by April 2011. Department of Information Technology (DIT) has also developed an Online Monitoring Tool for monitoring the uptime of the CSCs.

The roll out is found to be a bit slow in the difficult and naxal affected areas where setting up of CSCs is quite challenging, the statement said.

The roll out of CSCs has in some cases been delayed on account of delay in selection of new Service Centre Agencies (SCA's) in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

However, in order to ensure availability of connectivity to all CSCs, DIT is supporting BSNL to provide Wireline and WiMax based broadband connectivity to all 100,000 CSCs.

So far around 40,000 CSCs have had connectivity through BSNL. In the North East and difficult areas, DIT is providing VSAT based connectivity with the help of NIC. Envisaged to deliver web-enabled anytime, anywhere access to information and services across the country, these CSCs will cover six lakh villages in the country.

The project is being implemented on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model with a three tier implementation framework, in which the State Designated Agency (SDA) enters into a Master Service Agreement (MSA) with the Service Centre Agency (SCA) which appoints the Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) to operate the CSCs. The CSC project is being implemented at a cost of Rs 1,649 crore with a substantial investment from the private sector.

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96,500 CSCs Functional under NeGP.

India has rolled out over 94,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs), of the proposed one lakh, in 31 states and Union Territories to take Information Communication Technology (ICT) to the remotest part of the country. 12,510 of these are located in the naxal affected areas of 11 States, a government statement said.

Ten States including Gujarat, Kerala, Sikkim, Tripura, Jharkhand, Pondicherry, Manipur, Chandigarh, Goa and Delhi have completed 100 per cent roll out.

Under the Scheme, connectivity has been provided to 67,883 CSCs by April 2011. Department of Information Technology (DIT) has also developed an Online Monitoring Tool for monitoring the uptime of the CSCs.

The roll out is found to be a bit slow in the difficult and naxal affected areas where setting up of CSCs is quite challenging, the statement said.

The roll out of CSCs has in some cases been delayed on account of delay in selection of new Service Centre Agencies (SCA's) in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

However, in order to ensure availability of connectivity to all CSCs, DIT is supporting BSNL to provide Wireline and WiMax based broadband connectivity to all 100,000 CSCs.

So far around 40,000 CSCs have had connectivity through BSNL. In the North East and difficult areas, DIT is providing VSAT based connectivity with the help of NIC. Envisaged to deliver web-enabled anytime, anywhere access to information and services across the country, these CSCs will cover six lakh villages in the country.

The project is being implemented on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model with a three tier implementation framework, in which the State Designated Agency (SDA) enters into a Master Service Agreement (MSA) with the Service Centre Agency (SCA) which appoints the Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) to operate the CSCs. The CSC project is being implemented at a cost of Rs 1,649 crore with a substantial investment from the private sector.

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World Bank Approves $ 150 Million Loan for NeGP

India has inked a loan agreement with World Bank for 150 million dollars for the 'e-Delivery of Public Services Development Policy Loan' under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), a flagship e-governance initiative of the Indian government at transforming the service delivery system across the country. The signatories to the Agreement were Mr Venu Rajamony, Joint Secretary (MI), on behalf of the Indian government and Mr Roberto Zagha, Country Director, World Bank, India. The loan will support NeGP's countrywide plans of increasing online services for citizens in their locality to improve the quality of basic governance in areas of concern to the common man, an official statement said here. With a vision to make all government services accessible to the common man in his locality, through economical, transparent, efficient and reliable common service delivery outlets, the NeGP has identified various key components including Common Core and Support Infrastructure and Mission Mode Projects to be implemented at the Central, State and Local Government levels. These will help in providing efficient and cost-effective online services including birth and death registration, tax filing, land records, driver's licenses and vehicle registration, passports and visas, agricultural extension services, and a wide range of municipal and panchayat (local government) level services. It will also enable e-services for a number of critical services to be provided by the private sector like banking, insurance, and trade. While the World Bank loan will not target specific services per se, it will support the various policies and institutional actions of the Indian government in accessing more services online as well as in increasing its outreach to the common man. "This loan will support critical policy measures within Government's overall e-Governance reform agenda leading to more robust implementation of NeGP with significant social benefits for the population and positive impact on the poor," said Shankar Aggarwal, Additional Secretary, Department of Information Technology. Mr Venu Rajamony, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, said, "The NeGP has plans to significantly widen citizen access to e-services. We are certain that, this loan from the World Bank will support NeGP in its efforts to ensure efficient, cost effective, accessible and transparent delivery of public services across the country." http://egovonline.net/news/news-details.asp?newsid=16150&Title=World-Bank-Approves-$-150-Million-Loan-for-NeGP