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Reaching IT To Rural India
The past decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in the Indian Economy primarily fuelled by the service sector (48% of the GDP). The main contributor to this service sector has been the Information Technology Industry that earns about US $8 billion from exports. Hence it comes as no surprise that India is being hailed as the new IT Powerhouse. Having said that, it becomes interesting to study the contribution of this growth engine in the lives of about 70% of the 1 billion Indians; the 700 million who live in the rural areas. The primary agency involved with the framing of Indian IT Policy is the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MIT) in consultation with NASSCOM. Thus any effort towards utilizing IT for the rural Indians must originate from these bodies. We must also study the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) initiatives towards reaching IT to rural India. In the initial stages of formulating the Indian IT policy, the MIT set up the National Task Force on IT and Software Development on May 22, 1998, under the Chairmanship of the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission. This taskforce had a mandate to formulate the draft of a National Informatics Policy. This taskforce prepared a long term National IT Policy. Under MIT, a working group on IT for Masses was constituted in 2000. The working group recommended several projects for the centre and the states to be undertaken. Several schemes were mooted specifically targeted on rural India. For the purpose of spreading IT education, Modified Vidyarthi Computer Programme was designed and launched. The MRD also launched programmes like CRISP (Computerized Rural Information Systems Project) and CAPART (Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology). There have been a few success stories in empowering the rural India with IT. Ministry of Rural development is implementing a countrywide programme for land record computerization in collaboration ... Please login to view comments from other users.
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