In a significant move to bridge the digital divide in rural India and ensure that digital services reach every citizen, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is launching the Digital India Common Service Centre (DICSC) project, starting with Pilibhit and Gorakhpur.
In India, particularly in rural areas, women face multiple barriers that prevent them from fully harnessing the power of the internet. From socio-cultural and economic limitations to deeply entrenched gender biases, the digital divide is not merely about access but about the deep-rooted power relations and inequalities that persist in society.
In a conversation with The Statesman, Ms Brinda, chief executive officer at eVidyaloka, discusses the current state of education in India and what should be done to bridge the gap and provide quality education to all.
The Congress chief in a post on X wrote, "In 2005, on this day, our Congress-United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government enacted Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to ensure ‘Right to Work’ to crores of people in rural India.
This initiative will enable the integration of CSC's e-Grameen app on the ONDC Network as a buyer application, allowing citizens across rural India to access its vast e-commerce Network.
This is for the first time in the world that such a hi-tech technology is used to integrate a wide variety of thematic layers, multi-temporal high resolution earth observation data to analyse performance and position of previous work assets completed under various schemes and evaluate it through appropriate state authorities.
The development came after the government’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ to boost the income of farmers.
According to the study, 84 per cent of the households received food items through the public distribution system and 37 per cent received take home ration. About 24 per cent of the households borrowed foodgrain in villages and 12 per cent people received free food.
During last assessment year Uttar Pradesh was the top performer.
US President John Madison (1809-17) had once said, “The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true…
