India ranks 58th on e-readiness ranking
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India ranks 58th on e-readiness ranking
New Delhi: People in Indian villages might be unaware of the word computer, but with increasing usage of PCs in urban areas in the last few years, India has reached 58th position in the world on e-readiness ranking for the year 2009, reports PTI. During the question hour in Rajya Sabha (upper house of Indian Parliament), Minister of State for Information Technology Sachin Pilot said that e-readiness is the measure of the quality of country's information community technology (ICT) infrastructure and ability of its consumers, businesses and Government to use ICT for their benefit. Describing the Government's role in increasing the digitization across the country, Minister said that Indian Government launched National Knowledge Network at an outlay of 5,990 crore, to interconnect all universities, libraries, laboratories, hospitals and agricultural institutions to enable them to share data and resources over high speed information network. Also, the Government is planning to connect all village panchayats through broadband internet connection in three years. The government has approved 1,623.20 crore for state data centres (SDC) schemes besides 1,649 crore for setting up 100,000 common services centres. "High mobile penetration (more than 550 million) and increasing internet penetration in the country is providing a conducive environment for moving towards a digital society," said Pilot.

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