The Hindu Business Line : `e-governance more relevant in rural projects'

The power of Information Technology (IT) has proved to be much more relevant in rural regions vis-à-vis urban regions, a survey of 37 e-governance projects by IT consultancy firm Skoch said on Tuesday.

The survey, which was conducted over a period of two years and rated these projects on various parameters, has accorded an overall ranking of 8.67 to rural e-governance projects against 8.03 to urban projects.

The survey findings were announced at the ninth annual Skoch summit, Challengers 2006, which also discussed strategies on improving delivery systems and how the benefits of ICT could flow into villages of India.

"As the village epitomises the soul of India — the development of India as a nation should rest on a sustained and holistic development of rural India. India is not about interesting pilots, it is about projects that scale. E-Panchayat, Rural eSeva and Wadi are some examples that have scaled," Mr Sameer Kochhar, CEO, Skoch Consultancy Services, said.

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