Workshop & Events
Weekly Newsletter, 08/30/2018

PMGDISHA campaign held at Gaddanakkeri
As part of popularising Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan, village-level entrepreneur Mahesh Kumar had conducted awareness campaigns and rally at Gaddanakkeri gram panchayat in Karnataka.

VLE Mahesh Kumar, through the drive, explained the villagers of Gaddanakkeri about the importance of digital literacy and emphasised that one person from each family should undergo the ten-day training programme.

He also explained that the scheme has been launched by the Government of India and is ––totally free. According to the VLE, the villagers have shown great enthusiasm towards the scheme and had enrolled themselves to learn about the digital tools and devices.

Moreover, he also sought support from the youngsters who worked as the volunteers in spreading the message across the village. The youngsters had been working relentlessly to familiarise the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.

These youngsters have become the ambassadors of PMGDISHA at Gaddanakkeri in Karnataka.

According to Shrikant Ramesh, a beneficiary, the scheme has helped him to know about the digital world and the services it offers for a common man.

“Being a farmer, I was totally ignorant about digital devices and its purposes. However, the training programme shed light on few aspects which I found really helpful for leading an easy life. I am also able to teach my fellow workers and my family members,” said Shrikant


PMGDISHA campaigns held at Bellari
Bellari district of Karnataka has been very actively promoting Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan across the district. Most of the events held in the district has seen a huge participation and all the efforts of village-level entrepreneurs has helped the district and the villages to transform the place to a digital district.

In order to accommodate more villagers and make them digitally literate, a new centre was inaugurated at Kallahalli in Hosapette, Bennakallu gram panchayat in HB Halli and Shivapura in Kudligi. More than 100 villagers including the beneficiaries participated during the inauguration. Moreover, the village-level entrepreneurs from the neighbouring gram panchayats also participated for the inauguration of the new centre. The citizens have shown great interest in getting enrolled under the programme.

After completion of training programme certificates were also distributed during various held in the district. VLEs, Panchayat officials, CSC officials have been participating and distributing the course completion certificates to the beneficiaries during the various events held in the district.


Training and Advocacy
In recognition of Digital Literacy as a key requirement for realization of Hon’ble Prime Minister’s dream of Digital India and implementation of free digital literacy to rural citizens under PMGDISHA scheme, CSC e Governance Services India Ltd. organized a capacity building workshop on PMGDISHA at various districts in Telangana.

The workshops aimed at creating awareness about the Scheme and to impart training to the VLEs regarding the conduct of right beneficiary selection and training of beneficiaries, district level workshops were conducted.

The meetings addressed the topics including the process flow of PMGDISHA and role of VLEs as Change-makers. The importance and relevance of digital literacy and the mandate to introduce the change highlighting the role of CSC SPV in realization of Prime Minister’s dream of Digital India and the importance of VLEs as the last mile service delivery points to digitally empowered rural India need to be based on the spirit of social service and enthusiasm for accomplishment of goals. It was informed that the focus of every VLE should be digital empowerment of every citizen in his/her respective Gram Panchayat for effective participation in governance.These workshops witnessed huge participation.

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