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1.1 Under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) formulated by the Department of Information Technology, Government of India, over 90,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs) have been established. Today these CSCs are delivering a wide variety of services to the citizens. While the rural population is slowly joining this revolution, women and girls remain generally marginalized and excluded from taking advantage of ICT knowledge and services. CSCs can be an effective vehicle to help women acquire digital literacy skills that enable them to further their education, gain employment, help start and build their own businesses, secure their livelihoods and become socially and politically active. In view of this it is proposed to provide IT literacy to women through the CSC network and provide financial support both to these women who undergo training and the VLEs that will be providing this training. Thus the Scheme to provide IT literacy training to women combines the reach of the CSC with the objective of empowering rural women.
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2 Scheme details
2.1 The Scheme for empowering women in Rural India through Digital Literacy envisages training of 25,000 women on the Course of Computer Concepts designed and administered by DOEACC. DOEACC is a society of the Department of Information Technology, Government of India and is responsible for both training and certifying IT manpower. The well known certifications like O level and A Level for IT professionals are awarded by DOEACC. DOEACC is the implementing agency of the Scheme. The Program Management of the Scheme will be carried out by the M/s CSC eGovernance Services Pvt. Ltd hereinafter referred to as CSC SPV, which is a corporate entity created with the equity participation of State Governments, Service Centre Agencies and Financial Institutions. Government of India has one golden share. The Scheme will be operated in the States of 1) Assam, 2) Bihar, 3) Jammu and Kashmir, 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Maharashtra, 6) Rajasthan, 7) Sikkim , 8) Tamil Nadu, 9) Uttar Pradesh and 10) West Bengal. About 2500 women will be trained in each of the 10 States. The training to the women beneficiaries will be imparted by the VLE in the CSC. The Department of Information Technology, Government of India, has previously approved a scheme under which the DOEACC Society will train and certify one Lakh Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLE) of the CSCs on DOEACCs Course on Computer Concepts (CCC), which the VLEs should utilize to secure the CCC certification.
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c. Elements of Word Processing d. Spreadsheets e. Computer Communication and Internet f. WWW and Web Browsers g. Communication and Collaboration h. Making small Presentations 3.2 3.3 The above course is of 80 hours duration The Course on Computer Concepts is available in English as well as in the following Indian languages Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu
5 Incentives to Beneficiaries
5.1 The Scheme entails payment of Rs. 360/- to the beneficiary, Rs. 360/- to the VLE and Rs. 360/- to DOEACC towards examination fees. Funds earmarked for VLE and beneficiary along with the Project Management Fees for CSC SPV will be released to CSC SPV by DOEACC on demand for the same by the SPV. The beneficiary would receive an incentive of Rs. 360 only on successfully securing the CCC certification of DOEACC. In addition to the incentive, the examination fee for the CCC examination of DOEACC amounting to Rs. 360 is waived for the beneficiaries as the said examination fee is being directly paid by Department of Information Technology, Government of India to DOEACC. The VLE would obtain Rs. 360 towards training the beneficiary subject to the beneficiary clearing the CCC examination and obtaining the CCC certification. Subject to the trainee successfully obtaining the CCC certificate, the VLE should submit the request for incentive for both themselves and the beneficiary enclosing the DOEACC CCC certificate for each trainee to the SCA. The SCA in turn should consolidate all requests, and submit these requests to the CSC SPV at the following address
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Scheme for Womens Literacy M/s CSC e-Governance Services Pvt. Ltd. NeGD PMU 4th Floor Electronics Niketan
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Gate No. 6 CGO Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi 110006 Telephone no. 011 32928611 E Mail : monisha.borthakur@cscegovindia.com 5.5 The CSC e-Governance Services Pvt. Ltd in turn would consolidate requests examine and transfer the necessary funds to the concerned VLE and the beneficiary electronically .
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8 Training of Women
The VLE can train the trainees in two modes. a. Train the women on the E-learning module of CCC course at the DOEACC site http://elearn.doeacc.edu.in/
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b. Downloading the material from the DOEACC site http://www.doeacc.edu.in and train the women on this material. The training of the women will be monitored through an online attendance module, created and managed by the CSC SPV.
9 Certification
9.1 Women who have completed the training on CCC course at the CSC need to submit the Examination Application form through their VLE and SCA to the DOEACC centre responsible for their state. The state wise contact details of DOEACC offices is available in Annexure A. The examination is of 90 minutes duration and comprises of objective type questions of 100 marks and certificate is awarded to those candidates who score a minimum of 50 marks. DOEACC will allot an examination centre for the certification exam. It is anticipated that these examination centres will be located close to the village. At most the trainee will need to travel to the District Headquarters for the CCC certification examination. The CCC examination is held 3 times a year in February, June and October and women desirous of applying for certification should submit their applications about 60 days prior to the examination schedule.
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d) Releasing funds in a consolidated manner to CSC e-governance Services for the CSC e-governance Services to release it to the beneficiaries. e) Making payment to the CSC e-governance Services for the Project Management Fee component. 2) The CSC SPV will be responsible for the Schemes program management, including: a) Coordinating with the SCAs, various stakeholders to ensure the successful Scheme implementation b) Ensuring the timely implementation of the Scheme c) Compiling the list of beneficiaries state wise and ensure reelase of funds to VLEs and beneficiaries in a time bound manner. d) Distributing the VLE and beneficiary incentives to SCAs for onward transfer to VLE and the beneficiary. e) Building awareness of the Scheme, including developing and implementing the marketing plan and media strategy f) Cross pollination of best practices among States and VLEs g) Monitoring project progress and undertaking impact assessment h) Recommending next steps for nationwide implementation of the Scheme i) Creating a monitoring mechanism for the Scheme 3) The SCAs will be responsible for: a) Propose the districts to be selected for the Scheme to the SDA b) Suggest the VLEs that would provide training to the women beneficiaries and forward the names to the SDA. c) Coordinating with the local DOEACC centers to ensure that the VLEs get trained and certified to impart CCC course training via the CSCs d) The local implementation of the Scheme in each selected district to ensure selection of women beneficiaries and that the training is being imparted regularly and in a quality manner to the women. e) Consolidating the requests for VLE and beneficiary incentives and passing them on to the CSC e-Governance services Ltd. f) Making payments to VLEs and beneficiaries after obtaining the said incentive from the CSC e-Governance Services Pvt. Ltd.
g) Supporting the VLEs in Scheme awareness building, beneficiary selection and training activities. h) Reporting to the CSC SPV on the progress of the project 4) The Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLE) will be responsible for: a) Getting trained and certified by DOEACC. For this they may utilize the scheme initiated by DIT for obtaining training and certification on CCC of DOEACC. b) Imparting the 80 hour CCC computer training course to women eligible under the Scheme c) Selecting the women participants eligible under the Scheme.
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d) Keeping a record of all participants that enrol in the course and ensuring that they appear for the CCC certification exam.
12 Monitoring of Scheme
12.1 The CSC SPV will create an online monitoring mechanism to track the project implementation, including VLE selection, participant enrolment, participant course attendance, participant certification status, etc.
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