Viom Networks'Rural Service Centre inaugurated
Mr Kapil Sibal, Hon'ble Minister of Communications & Information Technology, inaugurated the model Rural Service Centre (RSC) of Viom Networks. Based on the vision of the Hon'ble IT Minister, the Rural Service Centre, set up at village Badshahpur in Gurgaon, is an innovative concept of "Power of Tower", developed by Viom Networks for leveraging its existing infrastructure through the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to achieve the Government's vision of providing universal education, financial inclusion, telecom services, healthcare, e-governance facilities and other related services to the rural population, thus ushering in the second round of telecom revolution - Telecom Revolution 2.0 - in the country.
Mr Kapil Sibal said, "I strongly believe that the telecom infrastructure sector offers a tremendous untapped potential that can be leveraged to enhance various government programmes and initiatives in rural India. Telecom infrastructure, especially towers that are located at remote locations in the country, can be used to promote various social and economic development initiatives. The industry can, in actual terms, become a true partner of the government and play a critical role in promoting growth in rural India. I urge the entire telecom infrastructure industry to come together and work towards making this concept a nationwide reality and help the people in rural India enjoy the benefits of connectivity and convergence and be Government's partner in progress."
Arun Kapur, CEO, Viom Networks, said, "Having pioneered the shared telecom infrastructure services industry, it has always been our endeavour to offer various innovative products and solutions to our operator partners. Our telecom infrastructure solutions have significantly reduced investments and costs for telecom operators, resulting in affordable telecom services for the common man, thus facilitating the first leg of telecom revolution in the country."
"Through these centres, we aim to partner with the Government to achieve their vision of bridging the digital divide through a range of telecom services, enhancing literacy in rural India, driving the agenda of financial inclusion, providing healthcare facilities and consultation using telecom infrastructure, plugging inefficiencies in the rural system by driving e-governance and offering various other services aimed at bringing rural India into the mainstream, thus contributing to the Government's vision of Bharat Nirman. This concept can be adopted by the entire telecom infrastructure industry, providing the Government a large canvas to implement its various initiatives effectively that are aimed at the social-economic growth of the rural population," added Mr Kapur.
The Centres will help create huge employment as well as entrepreneurial opportunity at the local level. The company has plans to extend this facility at a pan-India level to its rural sites spread across 879 districts, thereby bringing the real Bharat into the mainstream. Viom's strong grassroots-level presence will also aid effective implementation of Government outreach programmes such as Polio Vaccination drives, while the company's time-tested entrepreneurial culture and corporate ethics will ensure accountability and increased productivity in this innovative initiative.
The Rural Service Centre is aimed at offering a range of services like Education for all, Universal Healthcare, Financial inclusion through ATM services, e-Governance, Water, Information Display Board.
The available site premises will be used for offering a range of additional services such as mobile charging and recharging points, rural cyber cafés as an entrepreneurial opportunity to local youth, as well as other value-added services such as utility payments (power, water, telecom bills), travel bookings, mobile top-up facility, weather monitoring, function as Business Correspondent (BC) to raise deposits, disburse tiny loans, recover bad loans, sell micro insurance, mutual funds, pension products and other third-party products, and receive and deliver small value remittances.
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