Stressing on making Pragya Kendras more resourceful in the State, Chief Minister Raghubar Das has called for digital Jharkhand in order to make a real digitised India. While launching Digital India Week in the State the CM called for e-villages so that digital divide between towns and villages is bridged. The programme has been launched nationally by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.The CM on the occasion lauded the concept of the Prime Minister and recalled the era when globalization was started in India in 1991. “The common view at that time was that jobs would not be available in the field of industry for long after the globalization.
But even then IT field grew continuously. It is nice that the Prime Minister has understood the importance of IT,” said Das and underlined the good works done in the field in the State under the new regime.The CM added that his Government had allotted 52 acres of land for IIIT, 10 acre for C-DAC while 5 acre of land has been identified for academy for e-governance. 202 acre of land has been given for development of IT park in the State.“We have started working for the promotion of investment in the field of IT and also taking effort that a branch of TCS is opened here. We have discussed the issue with Cyrus Mistry of Tata,” he said.
Talking about future, the CM informed that 30 types of services would be started under right to services act within three months time apart from online mutation throughout the State from November 15. Currently the exercise is continuing in 38 blocks of the State. He also lauded Kiran Kumari of Giridih who has been felicitated by the Prime Minister in the programme.45000 digital lockers have been opened in Jharkhand under the initiative and on Wednesday several Ministers including CP Singh and Neelkant Singh Munda opened their digital lockers. Target to open 1 lakh lockers during the week has been also set for the State.
The CM on the occasion also felicitated 25 operators of Pragya Kendras. Suhani Seikh of Pakur has opened 2258 digi-lockers while Raman Kumar of Sahibgunj remained on the second spot.Senior officials of the Government including Development Commissioner RS Poddar, Secretary of Water Resources Sukhdeo Singh, CM Principal Secretary Sanjay Kumar and Secretary Sunil Kuamr Burnwal, CEO of JAP-IT KK Sinha, IT Director Umesh Prasad were present on the occasion.