New Delhi: More than 15 crore family units in provincial ranges are without PCs and a number of their individuals are evaluated to be carefully ignorant, Minister of State for IT P Chaudhary educated the Rajya Sabha on Friday.
The extent of family units in the nation with PCs amid 2014 was around 14 percent and just 6 percent rustic and 29 percent urban families had PCs, Chaudhary said refering to a report of the National Sample Survey Office.
"This highlights more than 15 crore country families (94 percent of 16.85 crore family units) don't have PCs and a noteworthy number of these family units are probably going to be carefully unskilled," Chaudhary included.
As indicated by this report, the extent of people (14 years or more) who can utilize PC for word handling or writing in provincial India is observed to be 7.8 percent.
The report shows that in 14-29 years age assemble in country India, just 18 percent could work a PC.
"Essentially, in the age gathering of 30-45 years, the rate drops further to 4 percent. In the age gathering of 46-60 years, the rate is quite recently more than 1 percent," Chaudhary said.
He said the legislature is taking different measures to advance digitisation and cashless installments in the nation, including conveyance of taxpayer driven organizations through Common Services Centers (CSCs) where IT and telecom use is low, laying of optical fiber arrange crosswise over 2.5 lakh gram panchayats and so forth.
"The legislature has endorsed a plan titled 'Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan' to introduce advanced education in provincial India by covering 6 crore rustic family units (one individual for every family) by March 31, 2019," Chaudhary said.
To guarantee impartial geological achieve, each of the around 2,50,000 gram panchayats will be relied upon to enroll a normal of 200-300 applicants, he said.
"Carefully proficient people would have the capacity to work PCs or computerized get to gadgets like tablets, cell phones, and so forth, send and get messages, peruse the Internet, get to taxpayer supported organizations, look for data and attempt cashless exchanges, and henceforth utilize IT to effectively take an interest during the time spent country building," Chaudhary said.