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Digital India Land Records Prime Minister Rural Digital Literacy Campaign
Modernization Program The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
launched a digital literacy campaign in rural India, with
the goal of reaching one person per household out of 6
crore rural households by March 31, 2023. Until March 15,
2022, more than 4.81 crore candidates have been trained,
and more than 3.56 crore candidates have been certified.
Digital Village Pilot Project BharatNet
The project began in October BharatNet is an initiative to
2018. In selected 700 gram accelerate the rural broadband
panchayats, digital health programme. The Department
services, education services, of Telecom plans to connect
financial services, skill 2.5 lakh gram panchayats and
development, and government villages through this project. By
and citizen services are being March 15, 2022, 1,75,827 gram
n It began operations on provided. panchayats will have broadband
April 1, 2016, with full infrastructure in place.
funding from the Central Kisan Rath Mobile App
Government. Its goal is Kisan Rath is a mobile application designed to make it easier
to create an integrated for farmers, farmer producer organisations, and traders to hire
land information vehicles for agricultural produce transportation. The android
management system and iOS versions of the mobile application are available in 10
that will improve real- languages, including Hindi and English. Rath Mobile
time land information, Application has
optimise land resources, 5.84 lakh farmers, farmer producer
reduce land disputes, organisations, traders, and service
prevent benami providers registered.
transactions, and benefit
sellers and buyers. Life made easier with digital
n 1,11,47,387 maps have Common Service Center (CSC) Digital locker
been digitised out of
a total of 1,62,71,251 The Common Service The Digital Locker is an ecosystem
maps. Center 2.0 was launched in that includes repositories and
August 2015 as part of the gateways that allow the issuer to
Land record computerization Digital India programme to upload documents to the digital
repository. More than 9.23 crore
has been completed in cover the country's 2.5 lakh users had registered in the Digital
Gram Panchayats. These
6, 11, 178 centres provide more than Locker by the first week of February
2022. More than 507 crore
400 digital services. As of
December 2021, there are documents have been issued as a
villages. This represents 93.10 over 4.46 lakh CSCs, 3.48 result of this until April 19, 2022.
percent of the total number of lakh of which are at the This includes 1695 issuers as well
villages in the country. Gram Panchayat level. as 349 requesting organisations
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