Monday, December 29, 2008

Spanco projects CSC network as self-employment opportunity

Spanco Telesystems and Solutions Limited has started the process of developing a network of information and communication technology-powered common service centres (CSC) in the Pune and Konkan revenue divisions. The company has been mandated to set up 3,689 such centres that will offer a host of government-to-citizen, business-to-consumer, and business-to-business services at nominal charges.

The company is among the four bidders that won the mandates for creating the network of CSCs across the state using the Maharashtra State Wide Area Network (MahaSWAN) as the backbone. Information technology department's principal secretary Kshatrapati Shivaji told TOI that the MahaSWAN, which was set up to connect each district headquarters in the state with the headquarters in Mumbai, has already been connected. The CSCs will be the second initiative in implementation of e-governance in the state.

There will be a CSC for every four villages in these districts which will offer basic government services such as land records, domicile certificates, birth and death certificates and ration cards. The company will develop its own data centre that will be connected to the state government's data centre, Bhatnagar explained.

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