THELIGHTOFANDAMANS: e-Dweep CSCs Create Record with 22000 Transactions

Monday, March 5, 2012

e-Dweep CSCs Create Record with 22000 Transactions

THE LIGHT OF ANDAMANS | ISSUE 28 | 2 MAR 2012

e-Dweep CSCs Create Record with 22000 Transactions

A media team comprising representatives from print and electronic media along with the Director of Press Information Bureau arrived at Port Blair to review the implementation of Information technology related programmes, especially e dweep project under national e governance programme in the islands.

The head of the team and Director for the Ministry of communication and Information Technology, Press Information Bureau(PIB) Bhupendra Kaintola informed that Common Service Centres known as e dweep kendras functioning in different parts of these islands made a new record of 22000 transactions during the last month and secured first position, while other states including Kerala and Karnataka recorded less than 20,000 transactions during the same month. To high light the remarkable achievements made under this Pioneering IT project in the national media, the Press Information Bureau organized this press tour with the participation of leading daily the Hindu, news agency PTI and Doordarshan News.

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About The Light of Andamans

The Light of Andamans’ was born out of the zeal and determination to fight against the suffocating Kafkaesque atmosphere on the society that existed even after 30 years of Independence under bureaucratic rule. It was a hangover of the ‘Raj’that extended much too long in the Islands.

The Light of Andamans’ was started in 1975. The paper had always been a crusader, taking up the causes that no other newspaper would touch. In doing so, it very often stepped on the toes of the authorities and had to face persecution in the form of denial of advertisements and numerous court cases against it. For a small stint, the publication came to a halt in 2003.

Gezira Publications Private Limited took over the paper in the year 2005 and transferred the title in a bid to revive the second oldest newsmagazine from extinction and also to carry forward the mission.

The Newsmagazine, under the new management, has undergone a sea change both in form and content. It turned into a full-fledged tabloid with 10 pages with plenty of photographs making both pleasing to the eyes and soothing for the mind. “It has acquired a position where it influences the policies in vital matters concerning the development of the islands, protection of aboriginal tribes and addressing the problems of the disadvantaged groups. The newsmagazine is known and appreciated for its bold, free, fair and balanced reporting.”

Late Govinda Raju and his team worked very hard to rebuild the reputation, goodwill and a healthy new image of the newsmagazine brick by brick. After the demise of Mr Raju in 2010, the magazine is now being edited by Zubair Ahmed and published by Basudev Dass. The newsmagazine continues its mission of highlighting policy issues pertaining to the Islands.