THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE for Rajasthan’s ICT department was to shed the stigma of ‘Bimaru State’ that has been attached to Rajasthan. Turning the odds of poor connectivity and providing digital services to the last mile, project RajNet – a multi-mode connectivity network, connecting Jaipur with all 9,894 Gram Panchayats and 183 municipal areas in Rajasthan – has changed the outlook of the state. Today, the state is poised to transform from Rajasthan to ‘DigiSthan’. Akhil Arora Principal Secretary, IT, Government of Rajasthan, shares interesting insights
What are the unique challenges for the state and what's the potential of technology in solving them?
In my career span of 25 years, I have learned that if everyone works as a team and takes a challenge as an opportunity, change prevails. In our journey of transforming Rajasthan to 'DigiSthan', the vision of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje was taken up on mission-mode by all the departments, field functionaries, public representatives, and most importantly, adoption of technology by people at large were the keys to success.
The biggest challenge was to shed over the stigma of ‘Bimaru State’ that has been attached to Rajasthan. Onethird of our population resides in rural areas, and one of the biggest challenges we faced was creating IT infrastructure till the last mile. Spectrum available in villages is about tenth of the same in cities; this posed the biggest problem for us, but also the biggest opportunity. To solve the same, we launched RajNet – a multi-mode connectivity network, connecting Jaipur with all 9,894 Gram Panchayats and 183 municipal areas in Rajasthan. Today, IT infrastructure is expanded across all the districts, up to the the Gram Panchayat level through RajNet. We have also ensured that capacity of internet connectivity available in every Gram Panchayat is upto 1 Mbps. The state is also currently under the state-wide implementation of Wi-Fi. Now every nook and corner of Rajasthan will be Wi-Fi enabled.
This story is from the August 2018 edition of Express Computer.
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