Chhattisgarh govt to give free cell phones to more than 5.5 mn people

A plan of Rs 230 crore has been prepared in order to provide free mobile phones

economy news: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has wanted to give free cell phones to more than 5.5 million individuals inside over two years in the state.

Under the Chhattisgarh Communication Revolution Scheme (SKY), the most elevated need of Chief Minister Raman Singh, an arrangement of Rs 230 crore has been set up to give free cell phones to 5,560,000 individuals inside more than two years in the state.

Out of this, 5,080,000 recipients will be appropriated cell phones in the current budgetary year 2017-18 and the following money related year 2018-19.

These will incorporate 5,100,000 understudies of specialized and non-specialized universities, including 4,010,000 provincial recipients and 560,000 urban poor. In the principal stage, it is evaluated to cost Rs 1,128 crore.

The staying 480,000 families will be given cell phones in the monetary year 2019-20, which will cost an expected Rs 102 crore.

In a declaration, Chief Minister Raman Singh educated that the Department of Electronics and Information Technology of the State Government has begun arrangements for the execution of the plan

"The office has issued a warning for the Chhattisgarh Communication Revolution plot from the service (Mahanadi Bhawan) here," said the authorities.

They additionally said that the execution of the plan will be done through the 'chips' of the express government's gadgets and data innovation foundation.....READ MORE

Soon, your driver's licence to be linked with Aadhaar

He also said that digital governance is honest, transparent and efficient governance

 

In another move to make India digital, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday asserted that the Government is planning to link the driving licence with the Aadhar card.

Addressing the gathering at the Digital Haryana Summit 2017, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the Aadhar is a digital, not a physical identity and a digital identity confirms the physical identity.

"We are planning to link the Driving Licence with the Aadhar. I have had a word with Nitin Gadkari regarding this," he said.

He also said that the decision to link the PAN card with the Aadhar was taken to stop money laundering.

Promoting the concept of digital governance, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the digital governance is 'good governance' and that it ensures fast delivery as well as the welfare of the poor people.

"Digital governance is honest, transparent and efficient governance," Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

"Digital India must lead to digital intrusion; it must lead to a digital society," he added, while appreciating the Indian IT industry.

He further said that the technology must be made available at affordable costs for people.