First CSC to come up in Jharkhand

R Jai Krishna

NEW DELHI: The first Common Service Centre (CSC), the single-gateway for Government-to-Citizen (G2C) services, under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), aimed at bridging the gap between government and citizen will come-up in Jharkhand. However, the pilot CSC, to be showcased to Union Communications and IT minister, Dayanidhi Maran, on January 19 has been set-up in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, the worst affected place in India by the Asian Tsunami of 2004.

Sharing the information with CyberMedia News in Delhi, Aruna Sundararajan, chief executive officer of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services and in-charge of CSCs project under the department of information technology said Jharkhand would implement the first centre in next two to three months.

“The CSC in Jharkhand will be the first one to be implemented under the NeGP, though there are 15, 000 such centres, which are already in place and run by various companies and agencies,” she said.

“We are preparing to showcase the model CSC set-up in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, which has been affected by 2004 Tsunami, to the Union Communications and IT minister, Dayanidhi Maran on January 19, 2007. The centre, mandated for efficient delivery, will initially offer 22 suite of government services,” Sundararajan said.

Stating that the centre had been connected by VSAT facility, and touch screen kiosks, it would concentrate on tele-education and tele-health facilities, the official added that they had found that rural VoIP and telephony were the immediate requirements at the Nagapattinam centre.

“After the starting of the Jharkhand centre, the government plans to have a large-scale roll-out of CSCs to be completed by the beginning of 2008,” Sundararajan added.

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