Bharti Airtel today announced its partnership with the Madhya Pradesh government for one of its Digital India Week initiatives. As part of this, the company rolled out ‘E-Shakti’, a scheme to build Internet awareness and literacy among women in Madhya Pradesh, the company said in a statement. “Internet has the potential to transform society into…
The Rs 4.5 lakh crore investment plan for the next five years unveiled by India’s top corporate houses at the Digital India Week event in New Delhi last week must make J&K state get up and market itself to attract a portion of this investment. This investment plan is expected to provide employment to 18…
The techno-savvy youth immersed in the making of utility mobile applications to facilitate quick online service delivery will be the centre of the district-level Digital India Week observance scheduled to commence here on July 6. Entries have been invited from interested candidates who are in the field of building various technological interfaces to facilitate e-governance.…
BSNL Dakshina Kannada Telecom District is involved in connecting all the 349 gram panchayats on optical fibre in the current year, said deputy general manager N Vishweshwara Bhat. He said the work is being taken up under Government of India’s National Optical Fibre Network project. “Approximately 470 kms of fibre and connecting equipments are being…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative aims to bolster the technical infrastructure for e-governance and e-commerce in the country, and also hopes to reach out to 250,000 panchayats, enlarge the scope of citizen delivery services and allow a greater participation of citizens as part of the Centre’s ‘minimum government, maximum governance’ approach. Along with…
In a bid to bridge the digital divide in rural India, India Post is all set to roll out a Rs 1,370-crore mega project in Tamil Nadu, according to which 1.3 lakh postmen in rural areas would be provided with network connected hand-held devices, which would aid them in postal delivery. Addressing a press conference,…
5807 gram panchayaths, including block headquarters in Karnataka, would be getting rural broadband optical fiber connectivity under the ‘Digital India’- BharatNet fiber project by Bharath Broadband Network Limited (BBNL), Bengaluru by this year end. BharatNet fiber is a centre -state collaborative project of BBNL to facilitate the delivery of e-governance, e-health, e-education, e-governance, e-banking and…
Scaling on the optical fibre network, the nation is all set to march on the digital path this week when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches a Rs one lakh crore programme aimed at wiping out the digital divide. The programme, envisaged by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), with coordination with ministry of communications…
BSNL has been given the responsibility of Digital India project in Bihar and 16 other states. India has been divided into two parts, one which has the internet facility and the other lacking it. This digital divide has to be removed by laying optical fibre in every panchayat to provide broadband connectivity to rural India,…
Delhi government’s controversial advisory to hospitals to not completely ban the per vaginal examination, also known as the two-finger test, of victims of sexual assault has put on hold. “Since there is scope for misinterpretation of the advisory, the chief minister has asked for a review. We would be reviewing the matter in the afternoon…