E GRAM Vishwagram Project : At a Glance

Project Infrastructure Setup

14,006 eGram centers are established in Village Panchayats .eGram Centers have been equipped with
VSAT Broadband connected PCs (with Scanner, Printer ,UPS, Web Cam, VoIP Phone) and to provide the e-
services to rural citizens. Village Computer Entrepreneur (VCE) is working on PPP Model and delivering
services to rural citizen in these eGram Centers.
eGramBroadband VSAT connectivity Network is also known as PAWAN Network is Asia’s Largest Public
Domain VSAT Network.Following are key attributes of this network:
Category Availability for BandwidthAvailable Total (in Mbps)

Data 2500 Concurrent User 16 Kbps burstable up to 256 Kbps/site 72 Mbps

VoIP 50(25 Duplex) Per Node 16 Kbps burstable up to 64 2 Mbps
Kbps
Video Conference 18Duplex Channel Per Node 512 Kbps 19 Mbps
(36 Users)
Video Broadcast Channel 1 Channel 3 Mbps 3 Mbps

Project Technical Support Team

To support the entire ecosystem, Technical Support and Training Service Provider Team (TSTSP) deployed
at eGram , Taluka , District and State level ( total strength of 575 IT Professionals ) with core job of
hardware and software support and capacity building of Village Computer Entrepreneur for successful
service roll out in rural area and this team is also taking care of technical support requirement of
Department of Panchayat and its related offices in district , taluka’s too. Connectivity Network is
supported by trained VSAT Engineers team ( total 125 engineers) .
Services Enablement in Project
VCE aregiving eServices which are broadly divided in two category:
Offered G2C Services

- Birth & Death Certificate

- Caste& Income Certificate
- Tax Collection Receipts
- Land Right Records Services (RoR- 7/12 & 8A)
- Application Forms of various development Schemes through Mahitishakti.net
- ITI Application Form
- Data Entry work for Government Departments like Health , Sports ,Gram Sabha ,Vanbandhuetc
- Electricity Bill Collection Work
- E Ration Card Coupon
- iKisan- Farmer Registration
- GSPC Bill Collection work

B2C services rolled out by VCE through entrepreneurship model are as follows:
- e-Ticketing of Railways, Airlines , Bus
- Utility Bill payments (Telephone, Mobile, DTH etc)
- DTP work
- Financial Services
 Information and Communication Dissemination
 At present State, District Officials are conducting regular video conference with eGram centers every
day.
 Free VoIP Telephony is available for Rural Citizen from eGram Centers.
 Through PAWAN Channel important programs and informative programs are transmitted for
information Department, WASMO,Health Department , Education Department ,Distance Learning
session of eServices (Like RoR, RTO, eration card etc) and computers course like Adobe online training
is relayed.
 As Social media popularity growing day by day, eGram is also utilizing the same for passing latest
information on Facebook. There is page “eGramVishwagram.gujarat” on Facebook gaining hits day by
day

eServices Roll Out Status Report

( eGram Vishwagram Society is working as enabler to roll out the services in rural area . In the GSPC
Service , eGram Vishwagram Society is getting one Rs per bill and in Khelmahakumbh Data Entry , eGram
Vishwagram Society received Rs 30 Lacs as lump sum amount , Other than that no service amount
received by society as of now )
 Electricity bills collection:
eGram Centers perform electricity bill collection work. Volume of work and financials are as given below:

Amount
Financial Total Bills eGram Income (VCE Charge
Collected
Year Collected per Bill is Rs 7/-)
(In Lakhs)
2016-17 6142645 49888.26/- Rs. 4,29,98,515/-

2015-16 7266573 62772.59/- Rs. 5,08,66,011/-

2014-15 6873415 59770.73/- Rs. 4,81,13,905/-

2013-14 6237217 52243.28/- Rs.4,36,60,519/-

2012-13 5740751 39274.50/- Rs.4,01,85,257/-

2011-12 5421261 32880.44/- Rs. 3,79,48,827/-

2010-11 5396664 29146.20/- Rs.3,77,76,648/-

Total 43078526 325976.00/- Rs. 30,15,49,682/-

 Delivery of Land rights of records (RoR):

eGram Centers provide online authentic copies of Land RoR. Volume of work and financials are as given
in following table::

Year Number of RoR Certificate eGram Income (@ Rs. 5/-)

Issued
2017-18 10030674 5,01,53,370/-
2016-17 20360927 10,18,04,635/-
2015-16 21042840 10,52,14,200/-
2014-15 16914365 8,45,71,825/-

2013-14 13120014 6,56,00,070/-

 2012-13 9295245 4,64,76,225/-

2011-12 7738032 3,86,90,160/-

2010-11 4179227 2,08,96,135/-

2009-10 1663227 83,16,135/-

Total 104344551 52,17,22,755/-

 eRation Card (PDS System) started in April 2011 and e-coupon issued so far are:

Year E- Coupon Issued So far VCE Income (In Rs.)

2017-18 1557215 31,14,430/-

2016-17 6882288 1,37,64,576/-

2015-16 76839690 15,36,79,380/-

2014-15 242160864 48,43,21,728/-

2013-14 124889368 249,778,736/-

2012-13 2166606 4,333,212/-

2011-12 1207282 2,414,564/-

Total 455703313 91,14,06,626/-

 GSPC Gas Bill Collection Started in September 2013 and Bill collection so far is:

Total Bills
Financial Year VCE Income(@Rs. 7/-)
Collected
Sept to March-2014 89325 6,25,275/-
2014-15 215284 15,06,988/-
2015-16 210183 14,71,281/-
2016-17 236677 16,56,739/-
2017-18 82393 5,76,751/-
Total 833862 58,37,034/-

 Financial Inclusion

 144 VCE passed Rural Authorization Person (RAP) exam conducted by IRDA , and now they are
empowered to start 52 companies insurance products through single login.
 Total 3691 VCEs have been registered under APNA Dhan Scheme
 PAN Card services started from eGram centers and so far 1231 application submitted.
 PRAN Card (PFRDA) generation has been started from eGram centers and so far 884
application submitted.
 As per Ministry of Finance guidelines, Currently 650 e-Gram centers are working as pilot for
Financial Inclusion Services across Gujarat.

 eGram Portal B2C Services by VCE through their entrepreneurship skills:

 Services Transactions Amount
Bill Payment 654 4,06,801
DTH Recharge 1184 3,02,701
LIC Premium 8 6,905
Mobile Recharge 14526 9,80,016
Money Remittance 206 2,48,833
Pan Card 140 17,533
Total 16718 19,62,789

 Now Farmers can get registered on iKhedut application through eGram Center, total 17,75,472
farmers have been registered through eGram centers from March-2014 to June-2017.

 Birth and Death data entry service is provided by eGram centers across Gujarat through
http://badea.guj.nic.in. Since Jan-2013 till November-2014 total 4,67,896 entries have been
registered through eGram VCE worth Rs.7,01,844

 Support for First Year Technical admission (B.Tech / Pharmacy / ITI) is provided from eGram Centers
for benefit of students. eGram Centers also provide online results of 10th and 12 th year examinations.

 Now rural citizens can apply for Jobs, in eGram itself through OJAS application.

 eGram center also undertake miscellaneous work of data entries:

For example during Khelmahakumbh 2011-Sports person online registration process was started
through eGram and per registration charges collected by VCE is Rs 7/- .

Year Data Entries completed (in Lakhs) Amount earned by VCE’s (in Rs.)
2014 10.76 0.53 Crore

2013 25.91 1.29 Crores

2012 21.69 1.51 Crores

2011 17.61 1.23 Crores

 VCEs perform data entry work for Gram Swagat Program .

 VCEs completed data entries related to health of 1.10 Crores rural school children in the year 2009-
10.

 VCE completed data entry of 89,057 records related to VanbandhuKalyanYojna in the year 2012.

Capacity Building Program

In the eGramVishwagram Project , capacity building program is continuous part of activity .

1> Total 4047 VCEs passed CCC Exam so far.

2> Taluka Level Executive of TSTSP team is giving continuous training support to VCEs in their regular
monthly visit at eGram Level.

3> eGram Connectivity Infrastructure is having unique dedicated facility of training through PAWAN
Channel (Bandwidth Provision – 4 Mbps) where continuous program broadcasted through it ,
following is sample list of program which is broadcasted on daily basis along with different other
informative programs:-
a. Feel Gujarat Visit Gujarat
b. Operation Savdhan
c. Online Ration Card Training for VCEs
d. Khushboo Gujarat Ki -Gir
e. Adobe Software Training
f. Khushboo Gujarat Ki -Kutch
g. RTO Learning Licensee Training for VCEs
h. Khushboo Gujarat Ki –Somnath
i. e-Poster
j. BSNL DSA Training Course
k. Badea Training
l. Trendmicro Training
m. GSPC Gas bill training
n. Financial Inclusion Training

 Ministry of Information and Telecommunication, Government of India recognized eGram as

eGram CSC Center from 4th Feb 2010 and in compliance of that already e GVGS installed 12944
OMT SMART Tool.

 Department of Panchayat on behalf of Govt. of Gujarat signed tri-party agreement to start

National Optical Fiber Network(NOFN) in State for connectivity to all villages, which will be
redundant to existing available VSAT Network.

 To make e-Service roll out more convenient eGram Portal https://egram.gujarat.gov.in launched
on 12/January/2017 that will provide different G2C and B2C Services through eGram centers.