Playing a significant role in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Digital India’ campaign, Chhattisgarh will soon make over one lakh people belonging to Below Poverty line (BPl) category ‘digitally literate’ under e-literacy project.
The Chhattisgarh Infotech & Biotech Society (CHiPS) has registered as many as 14,97,83 people (including 10204 Aanganbadi workers, 13656 Accredited Social Health Activists, 647 ration shop dealers and 125276 general candidates) against the fixed target of 1,20000 people, informed CHiPS officials.
Of the 14,9783 registered candidates, 60,000 people have completed their training while 13,422 candidates have cleared the examination conducted after completion of training period, added officials.
Notably, CHiPS is the nodal agency for implementing the centrally-funded project in Chhattisgarh.
“The objective of e-literacy project is to impart basic Information Communication and Technology (ICT) skills to trainees so that they can operate digital devices for sending and receiving emails, search internet for information and avail benefits from various e-Governance services being offered to the citizen by the Government,” said Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CHiPS Saurabh Kumar.
Under this project, over 1 lakh people (one from each household) across Chhattisgarh will be made e-literate within fixed duration of three years, said Kumar, claiming that most probably, the assigned target will be accomplished in Chhattisgarh before the stipulated time.
“Under this programme, registered trainees are being subjected to a short duration computer course of 20 hours carried out by Common Service Centre (CSC) and an examination of two hours. Since, the training is practically done on device (Tablet), the programme is eminently benefiting trainees,” he explained.