India took another step toward a |
access , will provide avenues for |
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digital economy with the |
interactive telemedicine and |
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government ’ s announcement that it |
educational sessions . “ The project is a |
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would provide free wi-fi to 1,050 |
public-private partnership , and will be |
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villages in the next six months as part |
driven through the common service |
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of its Digital Village initiative , CNN |
centres ( CSCs ),” Aruna Sundararajan , |
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reported . Cell phone users will get access to the internet via wi-fi hotspots mounted on towers .
The Digital Villages initiative will initially cost over Rs420 crore ($ 62
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secretary at the ministry of electronics and information technology , told The
Economic Times .
“ We ’ ll be partnering with different service providers to do it ,”
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centres are used by rural residents for a variety of digital services , such as filling out online forms or making digital payments . |
million ) and , along with basic internet |
Sundararajan said . Common service |
outsourcing and movement of skilled |
billions of dollars paid in taxes and |
workers . |
creation of local jobs . |
India hopes to have a meaningful |
“ Indian IT companies are in 200 cities |
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engagement with the US , Electronics |
across 80 countries . They have added |
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and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad |
big value to the US , and given jobs to |
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has said . |
lakhs of people including American |
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Given that US market accounts for 60 |
people there . I am given to |
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per cent of India ’ s IT exports , the |
understand that they have paid |
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industry and the government here will |
billions of dollars in tax . So they have |
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New US President Donald Trump ’ s
’ Buy American-hire American ’ rallying cry has put the USD 150- billion Indian
IT industry on edge , which is in waitand-watch mode to see how the new administration evolves policies around
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spare no efforts in their outreach programme over the next few weeks to showcase the role of Indian technology sector in making the US economy more competitive and highlight its contribution in terms of |
added value to America in terms of money , by way of tax and also employment ,” Prasad said in an interview just hours before Trump was sworn in as the 45th US President . |