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New website for rural Punjab

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DQW Bureau
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Punjab Rural Information Management (PRITMA) has decided to
make website for rural Punjab. A committee has been formed in leadership of
Shiva Prashad, Deputy Commissioner, Jalandhar and Chairman PRITMA.

PRITMA will establish IT centers at all the villages and
keeping in view the population of these villages, computers will be installed in
each unit. Each café will provide 24-hours Internet service.

The main aim of this movement is to provide education of IT
to rural children the younger generation. Basis information regarding word
processing software and Internet would be made available in units. To make the
training more understandable and easy-for-the-takers, PRITMA would make sure
that the lectures are passed on in the local language Punjabi.

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This is also being considered keeping in mind the fact that
most of the rural and local people in the state are not very comfortable with
the universal language English, so they try to keep themselves away from
computer suffering from it as paranoia. It is understood that once this facility
is available in Punjabi, people would surely come to learn it and start using
these facilities for their own purposes.

Also the new website in Punjabi is already through and CM,
Punjab would soon inaugurate it. PRITMA has tried to make it the most
comprehensive site on farmer’s land, Punjab. The site is expected to have
specific and separate sections on-Agriculture, Literature, History and daily
updation of new in, again the local language.

One aim of establishing these centers is to provide an
employment to rural youth. Youth from same villages would manage these
institutes and also train others for courses designed by PRITMA. Higher-level
courses are also being designed and PRITMA would also certify the successful
students out of the lot. After all said and ‘almost’ done, PRITMA has
decided to charge these courses at nominal fees to ensure the maximum
participation.

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