While its most ambitious and most talked about projectthe Unique ID (Aadhar) projectis running on time, having crossed the 100,000 enrolment mark recently, the projects success can be attributed to Nandan Nilekani at the helm; the Common Service Centers (CSC) project isnt doing all that well. Even though more than 85,000 CSCs have been set up, it is only expected to be completed by March 2011, way behind the schedule. And if that was not enough, the government further plans to have 250,000 CSCs in all by 2012 to cover all Panchayats to enable people to access the services under e-governance in their vicinity. A herculean task indeed, considering that its current target of setting up 100,000 CSCs is running behind schedule.
In this issue, we have tried to bring up a status update of the 27 MMPs and where they stand in terms of implementation.
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