25-April-2012,The Minister of State of Communications and Information Technology, Shri Sachin Pilot, today informed the Lok Sabha that as on 31st March 2012, out of a total of 88,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs) in operation across the country, about 73,000 CSCs have broadband connectivity. He informed that Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB), a professional agency engaged by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) had conducted a Mid Term Assessment Study of the CSC Scheme in April 2010.
Shri Pilot said that DeitY is vigorously addressing the problems which are faced by the Common Service Centers like inadequate broadband connectivity and power availability, lack of Government to Citizen (G2C) Services and training of Village Level Entrepreneurs.
Shri Pilot said that DeitY is vigorously addressing the problems which are faced by the Common Service Centers like inadequate broadband connectivity and power availability, lack of Government to Citizen (G2C) Services and training of Village Level Entrepreneurs.
