37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
In a major push for digitisation and digital empowerment of villages in Maharashtra, the state government is rolling out an ambitious plan to connect all gram panchayats through an optical fibre network. It will monetise this high-speed Internet service architecture by allowing private players to hire it on payment, creating jobs in rural and semi-urban areas through setting up of rural BPO units, warehouses, small movie halls and supply chain management systems.
The connectivity will also allow villagers to access government to citizen (G2C) services, e-health, e-education and e-agriculture facilities and allow youth to upgrade their skills using the broadband highway.
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