VILLAGE LEVEL ENTREPRENEUR

Recently, the Common Services Centres (CSC) has received approvals to manage and operate Passport Seva Kendra kiosks in rural areas.

Important points:

  • It is an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY).
  • The CSC is a strategic cornerstone of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), approved by the Government in May 2006, as part of its commitment in the National Common Minimum Programme to introduce e-governance on a massive scale.
  • The objective of CSCs is to provide high quality and cost-effective video, voice and data content and services, in the areas of e-governance, education, health, telemedicine, entertainment as well as other private services.
  • The Scheme creates a conducive environment for the private sector and NGOs to play an active role in implementation of the CSC Scheme, thereby becoming a partner of the government in development of rural India.
  • The PPP (Public Private Partnership) model of the CSC scheme envisages a 3-tier structure consisting of the:
  • CSC operator (called Village Level Entrepreneur or VLE);
  • Service Centre Agency (SCA), that will be responsible for a division of 500-1000 CSCs; and
  • State Designated Agency (SDA) identified by the State Government responsible for managing the implementation in the entire State.

CSCs enable the three vision areas of the Digital India programme:

  1. Digital infrastructure as Utility to Every Citizen.
  2. Governance and services on demand.
  3. Digital empowerment of citizens.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT

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