Govt to increase number of e-Seva centres in villages to 250,000

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Communication and Information Technology Minister, said the government was planning to increase number of common service centres in the country while speaking at Make In India Mumbai edition.

Currently, there are 150,000 such centres in the country.

“We want to increase centres to cover 250,000 gram panchayats soon,” said Radha Chouhan, CEO, e-governance, IT.

These centres, she said, will enable “village-level entrepreneur to talk to national-level experts” for guidance, apart from being an e-services distribution point. Chouhan, who followed Prasad at IT and electronics seminar, said the government was also focusing on partnering with private cloud companies to take services online.

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