SAP India, a Germany-based enterprise application software company, on Friday announced its first project to e-enable a Gram Panchayat in Rajasthan's Soda village.

As a part of this initiative, SAP will set up a computer lab to foster basic computer literacy amongst the villagers and provide e-governance facilities in the local administrative offices. The assistance will be primarily in terms of doorsteps delivery of services, such as birth, marriage and death certificates, and automation of record management for better visibility on budgets, revenues, and government schemes.

“The ability and ease of access to right information on time can impact the feasibility of improving the socio-economic conditions in India,” said Ms Chhavi Rajawat, Sarpanch, Soda Village.

Under the project, Lakshya, SAP along with its partners, plans to impart basic computer literacy to one lakh underprivileged youth across the country by the year-end. The project is slated to complete within next seven months.

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