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Indian Villages, A Mouse-Click Away! Indian Villages, A Mouse-Click Away!
 
All the information critical to the livelihood of rural communities across the country is just a mouse-click away.
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Saturday, July 05, 2008:  Pratibha Devisingh Patil, the first woman President of India, has launched the government’s multi-lingual portal that will provide information on strategic needs of the poor and the marginalised in local languages. The portal is titled as India Development Gateway (InDG). With the new portal, rural communities can immediately access information in six important sectors namely, agriculture, rural energy, education, health and e-governance. The languages in which services are available are Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and English. In the coming days, more sectors and more languages will be covered by the portal.
The portal is executed by Hyderabad-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) with support from the e-governance division of the Department of Information Technology, Government of India. A distinctive strength of the India Development Gateway is collaboration and partnership amongst government, NGOs, community-based organisations and private, academic and research institutions.

Launching the portal, the Indian President said that the India Development Gateway can link panchayats across the country, empower village people and open a window of opportunity to rural development. The President added that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) must help bring about a second green revolution in agriculture. She wanted the benefits of this technology to reach remote and far-flung areas. She said that the Gateway should help achieve universalisation of primary education, energy conservation and energy efficiency and health objectives in the villages. She further added that the portal should be used to inform rural population about benefits from government Schemes and income generation options.

In his address, minister for communications and information technology A. Raja said the Gateway portal is part of the national e-governance vision to make all government services accessible to the common man in his locality. He hoped that the portal will bring about change in villages and holistic human development. He described the initiative as one more attempt to bring the power of IT to the unreached and to have an impact on rural livelihoods.

The portal will bridge the knowledge gap, empower the youth and give full choices to citizens, said Jyotiraditya Scindia, the minister of state for communications and information technology. He said that the project signifies the powerful combination of ICT with grass root level partners.

The chairman of the India Development Gateway initiative and scientist Prof M.S. Swaminathan said that the portal marks a new architecture of growth based on social inclusion, knowledge revolution and national development. Swaminathan added that the portal will provide dynamic information in areas like weather and market to support agriculture and other sectors in the villages.

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