Government rolls out 97,439 CSCs

The Department of IT has rolled out 97,439 Common Service Centres (CSCs) in 33 states and union territories.

Around 13 states has set up 100 percent CSCs in thirteen states as on November 30, 2011, said the ministry of communications in its year end report. The ministry also said that the government has a proposal to set up additional 1.5 lakh Bharat Nirman Common Service Centres i.e. to have one CSC in each panchayat in whole of rural India.

The ministry has also added four new Mission Mode Projects (MMPs)- education, health, PDS and posts under the National e-Governance plan (NeGP) taking the total number of MMPs under NeGP to 31.

The ministry has also operationalize 29 SWANs (state wide area network) while the State Data Centres (SDC) have been made operational in 16 states.

The government has also recently formulated a draft policy on mobile governance and formed State e-Mission Teams (SeMTs) in 32 States and UTs, under the CB scheme.

Recently, the union cabinet approved Electronic Delivery of Services (EDS) Bill provisioning mandatory delivery of all public services in e-mode in the next five years.

e-District pilot project has gone live in 12 states and the guidelines for national rollout of e-District MMP has also been finalized. The government has set up ICT infrastructure in more than 450 court complexes during the current financial year.