[India] Rural IT initiative launched in Andhra village

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

The Economic Times (JANUARY 17, 2003)

Rural IT initiative launched in Andhra village



VENKATACHALAM: Ushering in a new era in rural empowerment, ‘Cyber 
Gramin,’ aimed at providing IT benefit to rural people, was launched 
by BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu at this tiny village, 15 km from 
Nellore in Andhra Pradesh.

Naidu launched the state-of-the-art facility at a teleconference in 
the presence of Union Urban Development Minister Ananthkumar, Union 
Minister of State for Information Technology Sumithra Mahajan and 
Union Minister of State for Rural Development Subash Mukharia.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and chairman of the 
Eenadu group of publications Ramoji Rao interacted with the select 
gathering through video conferencing.

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj, in a 
recorded message delivered through teleconference, said that private-
public co-operation in the IT sector would be extended to other parts 
of the country.

The novel venture, an initiative of the Swarna Bharat Trust, an NGO, 
envisaged as an IT convergent hub, would make available a range of 
applications and services like telemedicine, entertainment, 
information on agriculture and e-governance, among other things.

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