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Nasscom Foundation, Arcesium India launch first rural digital literacy center in Telangana

 

 

 

HYDERABAD: Nasscom Foundation along with Arcesium India, a post-trade technology and professional services firm, on Saturday launched their first rural digital literacy centre in Telangana, which is equipped to train around 1,000 beneficiaries from underprivileged communities around the Peeddashapur area.

The centre will train at least one member of each family to make them digitally literate under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan (previously called National Digital Literacy Mission).

Once trained, the beneficiaries will be able to register for Aadhaar, ration, and PAN cards, pay bills online, send emails, and log onto the internet for financial, educational, healthcare and communication needs. The central government has designed a curriculum of 20 hours, with trainees expected to spend two hours per day for 10 days

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Ranvijay Lamba, country head, Arcesium India said the requirements of such centres are more in the rural area and the company plans to support similar initiatives in Telangana.

Arcesium is supporting the training infrastructure and the trainers at the centre with the help of their implementation partner, Nirmaan Organization.

Srikanth Srinivasan, regional director, Nasscom Foundation, said, "This is our first digital literacy centre in rural Telangana and the 10th overall in the state. Till now we have trained 7,000 youth in the city centres. Each centre can train 1,000 to 1,200 youth per annum. Till now NASSCOM has established 170 NDLMs all over India. The objective of the program is to ensure that every household in rural India has at least one computer literate member."