Maharashtra deploys internet kiosks

Maharashtra deploys internet kiosks
Tags: Government, Human Resources, Internet Kiosk, Kiosks & mini kiosks
October 23, 2005

i4donline: As part of Maharashtra's employment guarantee scheme, 1,000 internet kiosks are to be set up this year in the state which would act as e-governance, e-commerce and knowledge hubs.

The number will be scaled up to 4,000 in 2008-09 with an objective to generate employment for 10,000 rural youths. The proposed model is entrepreneurial and revenue-based, wherein rural users pay charges to the kiosk provider. The educated unemployed rural youth will establish the kiosk with a bank loan and a small subsidy from the government.