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Outsourcing Government - E-Governance States - Karnataka e-governance scheme to help spread of BPOs in rural areas
Comat, in partnership with Hughes Communications India, has launched educational and vocational programme services
Our Bureau Bangalore, Sept.10 Nemmadi, an e-Governance service programme launched by the Karnataka Government in partnership with a private vendor in October last, could soon become a platform for business process outsourcing (BPO) in rural a nd tier two cities. The Bangalore-based Comat Technologies, which is partnering the government in providing the software for Nemmadi, plans to host a training programme in medical transcription as a pilot project to enable the rural folks to seek jobs with BPOs. Comat, which in partnership with Hughes Communications India, announced the launch of educational and vocational programme services through Nemmadi here on Monday said it would be providing the training programme to rural Karnataka areas in collaboration with a leading medical transcription company. The initiative is a continuation of its strategy to strengthen the Government-to Citizen (G2C) information in 800 hoblis (cluster of four or five villages) and service delivery relating various government departments. Earlier announcing the launch of training programme for pre-university (PUC) students for appearing in the Common Entrance Examinations (CET) conducted by the state government for professional courses, the State Education Minister, Mr D.H.Shankara Murthy, said that Nemmadi has become an important tool for taking the government services to the doorsteps of the villagers. It serves 50,000 citizens daily across the State and had created 1,600 rural jobs. The new programme ‘Maximise Series for Karnataka’ has been setup jointly by Hughes Communications India and Comat on the Nemmadi platform. It offers comprehensive training programmes with faculties from educations institutions through a V-sat based computer classes in the hoblis. The two companies have already been operating more than 1,300 kiosks across 500 cities and towns providing a host of services. Mr Vaibhav Magow, Director (marketing) HughesNet Fusion, said the platform could be used for training courses for service sector like retail, travel and financial businesses to increase job opportunities to rural people.
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