To educate rural women, Churu District Administration launches 'computer sakhi'

The district administration has also reached out to the state government to provide RS-CIT (Rajasthan State Certificate course in Information Technology) on priority so that the trained women can get jobs at the gram panchayat level. Around 6,500 women have already completed their training programme at the government school laboratories and another batch is about to begin next week. 

To educate rural women, Churu District Administration launches 'computer sakhi'

With an aim to empower rural women, the Churu district administration has come up with 'Computer Sakhi' to train about 70,000 people in basic programmes and the internet. The district administration has also reached out to the state government to provide RS-CIT (Rajasthan State Certificate course in Information Technology) on priority so that the trained women can get jobs at the gram panchayat level. Around 6,500 women have already completed their training programme at the government school laboratories and another batch is about to begin next week. 

"We have 70,000 women involved with self-help groups. We aim to make them digital and financially literate so that they can play a positive role in society. We are using government school computer labs. We are utilising the existing infrastructure which is not incurring any additional cost," Churu District Collector Siddharth Sihag said as reported by NDTV.

He further added that there are 532 schools in the district and almost all of them have computer labs and teachers."By the end of this year, we will have computer labs in all schools. Soon, they will also have internet connectivity," he said.

"A proposal has been sent to the state government to give priority to these rural women associated with SHGs in RSCIT for proper certification. An in-principle approval has been granted. The pilot run for the programe was started in April with 1,000 women," he added.

While speaking on the same, the Nodal officer, Sanjay Kumar said "that the training is given for 15 days during which internet, Google search, paint software, typing and UPI transactions are taught. The administration aims to train 25,000 to 30,000 women in the next six months."

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