Question

With information technology likely to enter local self-governance in a big way,
the day is not far when almost all villages in the country would find the vast
network of panchayats people friendly.The panchayati Raj Ministry has al-
ready announced that it is going to spend over Rs 1000 crore in 2006-07 to-
wards the installation of computers in the 2.4 lakh Panchayats to interlink
them with each other and also with a national Panchayat portal. The step
would bridge both the rural-urban divide and the digital divide to a great
extent besides providing employment to at least two persons from each Gram
Panchayat who would be trained to operate the computers.
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Answer:

With information technology likely to enter local self-governance in a big way,

the day is not far when almost all villages in the country would find the vast

network of panchayats people friendly.The panchayati Raj Ministry has al-

ready announced that it is going to spend over Rs 1000 crore in 2006-07 to-

wards the installation of computers in the 2.4 lakh Panchayats to interlink

them with each other and also with a national Panchayat portal. The step

would bridge both the rural-urban divide and the digital divide to a great

extent besides providing employment to at least two persons from each Gram

Panchayat who would be trained to operate the computers.