The minister said this while speaking on step taken for Information Communication Technology and Rural Information Kisok- Village Level Entrepreneurs (RIK-VLE).
He said that several essential services cannot be done from the villages. For instance one cannot get tribe certificate, residential certificate, birth certificate, income certificate, tax exemption certificate, utility bills, revenue tax, air ticket, train ticket, insurance, DTH recharge, mobile recharge, photo printing, passport photos, internet ,e-mails, scanning and printing etc services.
“In order to solve these problems being faced by the rural people, the project aims to provide communication infrastructure through VSAT internet connectivity to reach out digitally all the villages in Mizoram, to set up Rural Information Kiosk in 300 villages for ICT-enabled service delivery outlets in all villages to provide a range of government and business services to the people in the village,” he said. He said this will reduction the inconvenience and costs incurred by the citizen.
“It is worth mentioning that as many as 136 Common Service Centre (CSC) has been set up out of 300 villages,” Zodintlunga added.