66 vans will go to 657 districts and cover 13 lakh km by March 2017
The
government will roll out a new campaign on Monday under which 66
digital vans, equipped with Internet and audio-visual facilities, will
go to 657 districts by March 2017 to increase awareness about various
e-governance services in rural and semi-urban areas.
“The aim is
to reach out to more than 10 lakh citizens and register over 1.5 lakh
rural citizens for MyGov, digital locker, Aadhaar and other digital
services,” a Telecom Ministry official said.
These vans would cover more than 13 lakh km in 13,200 man days.
The
campaign will be flagged off by Communications and IT Minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad at a conference to present the report card of the
Ministry’s two years in office.
It will run from May 30, 2016 to
March 31, 2017. The vans will use the Internet and audio visual
facilities to interact with and educate the people in rural areas,
especially the youth, about the various Digital India initiatives.
34 districts in phase 1
“State
governments, along with the Department of Posts, Department of
Telecommunications (BSNL) and CSC-SPV, will play an active role in the
execution of this campaign. A district level committee, headed by the
District Collector, will foresee its ground level execution to ensure
that the maximum benefit is generated out of this campaign,” the
official said.
During phase 1 of the campaign till July 2016,
some 16 vans will cover 34 districts in nine States — Haryana,
Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala
and Andhra Pradesh.
Service in 14 languages
Rural
citizens will be informed about the services offered at CSC centres,
national scholarship portal, e-hospital, digital lockers and Aadhaar in
14 languages — Hindi, English, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu,
Kannada, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese, Manipuri, Urdu Marathi and Malayalam.