Principal Secretary Information technology C K Mathew said about 6,600 computers kiosks would come up in the rural areas owned by women. He said out of the seven divisions in the state letter of intents (LoI) have been issued for setting up about 3,500 CSCs in four divisions on Tuesday to CMS, which would provide the infrastructure support to the programme.
He said, "The scheme envisions common service centres as the front-end delivery points for government, private and social sector services to rural citizens of the country in an integrated manner."
While the private company would provide the infrastructure and technical support in setting up of these kiosks, the allot-tees could repay the cost involved to the company in easy installments.
The objective was to develop a platform that could enable government, private and social sector organisations to align their social and commercial goals for the benefit of the rural population in the remotest corners of the state through a combination of IT-based as well as non-IT-based services. He said the CSCs, one each for six villages would have at least three computers with a printer and scanner each.
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