President Interacts With Kanpura Gram Panchayat, Rajasthan Through NIC Video Conferencing

The hon’ble President of India, His Excellency  Pranab Mukherjee held a live Video Conferencing from the Rashtrapati  Bhavan , New Delhi with  the people of Gram Panchayat (GP) , Kanpura  in  Ajmer District on the 2nd November 2012. The prez impressed with the services inquired about the transformation and  impact of the fibre connectivity and e-governance services on the citizens of GP.  The VC was held during the presentation of second Annual Report of National Innovation Council to the people by well known  Sam Pitroda, Chairman ,National Innovation Council  and the  Advisor to the Prime Minister on PIII  in the presence of hon’ble Central Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Shri Kapil Sibbal,  national, international delegates and many other dignitaries  present during the function.
 
             At  the VC, the  village Sarpanch from Kanpura,   Jagdish Bairwa briefed the first citizen of the country  about the benefits of the fiber connectivity to the citizens. He said that “  now we are connected with the other parts of the country and feel good.  The computerised copies of land records, birth & death certificates are now being issued through the  GP.  Earlier on for any medical and health related issues the residents  of the panchayat had to go all the way to Ajmer  incurring time and costs etc. With the introduction of  telemedicine  the facilities are now available at the at the  GP in the form of  medical consultation and residents of the Panchayat are getting the maximum benefit  of it. The   IT Manager posted at the GP is regularly updating the  school’s students and adults in IT literacy. Students are accessing the  internet for their education, results and various information needs. The students are also able to download  various educational videos from the panchayat.  The district administration, National Informatics Centre & BSNL had made elaborate arrangements to make the event a grand one.  SIO Rajasthan Indu Gupta informed that “ NIC had established a duel VC facility, one for the live interaction from Panchayat Bhawan  Delhi and another for the media persons and the common citizens from the adjacent rooms for the prestigious event. The  VC session was managed by Video Conferencing, Division, NIC New Delhi with an  uninterrupted connectivity of 10mbps for the event by BSNL. Kanpura is the one of the ten pilot  Gram Panchayats which has been connected with fiber under the Pilot Project of Rural Connectivity. The basic Infrastructural support and manpower has been provided in the ten pilot panchayats. NIC had previously demonstrated the ICT facilitation at the  Kanpura GP to the  second time elected  US president Hon’ble Barak Obama during his last visit to India in November in 2010 through VC with  GP, Kanpura from St. Xavier’s Mumbai and had received  wide appreciation for the same.”