(By Diwaskar Chettri & Preethi J) 561 out of 1159 Common Service Centres (CSC) are non operational in Haryana and 133 in Tripura: and the reasons are growing. First, it was lack of funds, not enough G2C (government to citizen) services and poor management. Now, it is because of cancellation of contracts. CSCs are Internet connected kiosks set up in villages that allow citizens to book tickets, apply for jobs, search for market information on crops and sell their produce. The CSC rollout is a part of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Plan (NREGA). As of December 2009, a total of 58,954 CSCs have been rolled out - only 2975 have been added in 2 months. Overall, 109,521 CSCs were to be rolled out by June 2010 - will that happen? Ironically, Haryana and Tripura are amongst the few states that have actually completed the long-drawn out implementation of CSCs: what an immense waste of funds and effort to set them up and achieve 100% rollouts if they are not going to be running. Other states that have completed 100% rollouts are Gujarat, Tripura, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Sikkim. Download: CSCs Implementation, January 2010 | National eGovernance Projects (NeGP) Implementation Update Requests for Proposal/Tender (RFP) are to be reissued for Karnataka, reasons are not available. They are ready to be issued for Andaman & Nicobar and the bidding process is underway for Punjab. CSCs for Lakhshwadeep, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli are still under discussion. Sikkim and Jharkhand…
