Snehlata, who runs a common service centre (CSC) in Alwar district of Rajasthan, has been providing exemplary service by spreading digital literacy among the Banjara community, tweeted Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister of electronics and information technology, on Wednesday.
She has been educating Banjara women about menstrual hygiene and providing low cost sanitary pads.
But she won't be alone in empowering women through digital literacy if the state government's move to train one member of every family in the state goes as per plan.
For the statewide initiative, the government has drawn out a strategy to provide digital training to 1.5 lakh women under the eSakhi programme. Once trained, the eSakhis will make other women digitally literate and help them benefit from public welfare schemes and avail e-governance services through mobile phones or computers.
Read more of this in a report by Srikanta Tripathy published in The Times of India...
