The Haryana Government will take its information technology (IT) initiative to the people by setting up 1,263 IT kiosks that will handle common services.

The biggest beneficiaries of the E-Disha Ekal Seva Kendras will be the rural masses who will no longer have to travel long distances for common services.

These Common Service Centres (CSCs), 1,159 of which will be set up in the rural areas, will help governance and education, health, entertainment and other possible government and private services. The CSCs will be developed through a public-private partnership model to encourage economically sustainable models for social development.

“It will be a one-step collection centre for many services. Our target is to make the CSCs fully functional during 2007. People will be able to make payments of electricity and water bills online from home”, Dr Dalip Singh, Secretary, Public Health, had said recently at the launch of the Haryana Public Health Department website……

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