Rural employments through ICTs: News from our partner

Historical aspect

� As we know that 20 th century was the age of industrial revolution. This had given us jobs for skilled & unskilled workers. The industrial pollution was its bio product.
� Where as 21 st century is the era of information and communication technologies. The father of ICT in India was former
prime minister late Sh. Rajeev Gandhi, who had conceived the idea of 21 st century India in 1986.That idea of him is paying
to country handsomely as we a leading nation IT sector today.

Why this project is required ?

revolution has provide jobs opportunities to ICT skilled & high skilled workers only, due to application of ICT in industrial
sector has also decreased the number employments in this sector for all sections of workers. Thus limiting

participation of general public in this revolution.

2. The main objective of ICT is to give maxim information through common communication. If we left 73% of rural/sub urban
population in this movement then ICT can not achieve its goal in India.

3. The youth activeness in national works is declining day by day&

making them insensitive to present situation of nation. It is because most of rural/sub urban (unskilled workers areas) youth
think themselves irrelevant in this ICT era.

4. To provide additional sources of statistics/information to national policies planners.

(RETICT) Strength of the project

� India has a unique feature in today world i.e. its population. Its huge population has played negative role in its achievements
for development.

� Here we will not discuss the population explosion.

But in today ICT era we have to plan our policies in such ways that our weakness (huge population) will become our strength.

In this rural employment through information and communication technologies (RETICT) project will try to use numbers to achieve
some thing special for all. Maximum numbers is our mantra to success.

What RETICT project will do?

� It will generate equal & all important participation of skilled and unskilled workers in ICT revolution to archive prime goal
(employments for all).

� As this project is special meant for rural/semi urban area where ICT revolution has not expanded its base yet. When they (youth)
will join RETICT, they will have to play very crucial role to build parallel data sources in India .Thus working for parallel national data
sources they will rethink their relevance in national policies planning and start to play role in future India.

� The computer is a machine which needs input to produce output, for inputs data/information is required. As in our country has limited
data sources to get statistics on any subject.

It is the fundamental requirement for any types of planning. Mostly government controlled statistics sources (census, surveys &researches)
are only available to policies planners in India. RETICT will provide parallel statistics sources to national policies planners to verify their data.

� In RETICT rural youth will get jobs at their villages' levels so migration of villagers to metro/towns will reduce thus resulting into
decrease in population pressure on urban area.

� It will do ground work for ICT revolution in rural India by connecting them with (villages information) to internet website will also develop
IT approach among them.

How RETICT will work? see ABCNEWS NETWORK

User comments

"Use ICT to uniquely identify citizens and their health, education, skill, employment, etc. to create rural employment"

Author: Kris Dev

Time: 15.08.2007 16:19

Comment: We have completed 60 glorious years of independence and we have made strides in many areas. But we are yet to get over the appalling poverty gripping India. The majority of Indians live in poverty. It is difficult to define poverty. But the inability to provide for the essentials for a decent and honourable living such as good health, hygiene, water, sanitation, food, clothing, shelter, employment and social security in times of need such as sickness, accident and old age can be termed as living in poverty.

It is a sorry state of affairs, while Governments are ready to provide colour television sets, to people living below poverty line, they are not prepared to guarantee 2 square meals a day!!

The very lack of a unique citizen ID even after 60 years, is a sorry state of affairs. It speaks volumes of our hypocrisy which we hide under the garb of democracy.

If we mean well for our country and the majority of the poor, we need to create a Unique Citizen ID Card using Biometric Registration and use it as a Multi Purpose Card for all Transactions. All details of the individual such as health, education, skills, employment, etc. should be available to the individual and anyone seeking to promote rural employment, to alleviate poverty.

Creating a record of all transactions irreversibly that would lead to total transparency and accountability using an e-Administration Tool, that would help to take us out of our appalling poverty. Recent Biometric Registration of Beneficiaries of NREGP exercises done in remote villages of Andhra Pradesh and Bihar and the 'e-Administration' paper less communication and work flow solution, has proved this to be true.

For more details see http://ll2b.blogspot.com".