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Friday, November 22, 2013

Team assesses progress of Cyber Village project at Melli-Dara

GANGTOK, 21 Nov: A team officials from different departments including Panchayat Director, HB Gurung, SDM (S) Karma R. Bonpo, Joint Directors IT, T. Sandup and Prem V. Basnett and president, Sikkim Cooperative Union (SICUN), Ganesh K. Rai visited the Village Administrative Melli Dara today.
A press release informs that the objective behind the visit was to assess the progress of Cyber Village. Melli Dara Paiyong Gram Panchayat Unit has been declared the first Cyber Village in India.
During the program, the Director, Panchayat congratulated the Panchayats and urged them to push cyber village to successful implementation. The SDM was brieved about the Cyber Village concept. Several issues were raised impeding the successful implementation of Cyber Village, prominent being connectivity issues.
The SDM came up with the suggestion of establishing WiFi network within the GPU which was well received and appreciated by all. The meeting also agreed upon the format of household card to be printed and distributed to the households in the GPU. Department of IT, Govt. of Sikkim handed over Barcode readers, Card Printer and flatbed scanner for printing household cards, the release adds.

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