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NEW DELHI: Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said that the Government would find "ways and means" to meet the demand for Rs. 6,500 crores to create over 6 lakh village knowledge centres across the country. The Government has already granted Rs. 100 crores for connecting 10,000 telecentres under the project through NABARD. Speaking at the concluding function of the two-day National Alliance on Mission 2007, Mr. Chidambaram said he would discuss the recommendations of the meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He said the village knowledge centres would be powerful instruments for delivery of e-governance, health and education, commercial information and other Internet linked services. "Projects like this must be demand driven, participative and over a period of time, be based on a model that is revenue generating," he said. He asked the National Alliance to try and rapidly complete the first phase before the current financial year ends to obtain further monetary allocations for the implementation of the project. Initiated by the M.S. Swaminathan Foundation, Rs 3,000 crores would be required for connectivity and capacity building and Rs 500 crore for coordination process. Elaborating on the role of panchayats network, Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said the these grassroots institutions should run the knowledge centres in the village and suggested that these should become central to the Bharat Nirman programme. Some of the recommendations made at the end of the meeting include initiating call centres in drought, hunger and suicide hotspots as a priority, linking distance learning through these knowledge centres, training 1.2 million master trainers and setting up of a national level coordination group to steer the mission besides constituting State level councils of e-governance.
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