TNN | May 28, 2015, 04.06AM IST
GURGAON: The city's first National Digital Literacy Mission centre has been set up in DLF Phase II on Wednesday. The centre is expected to train over 1,500 under-privileged people in digital literacy this year.
The beneficiaries will be trained on all digital devices, specifically computers and mobile phones. Once trained, the beneficiaries will be able to send e-mails, connect on to social media, use e-commerce sites for online purchases, and will even know how to use the Internet to avail various government services such as registering for Aadhaar cards, ration cards and PAN cards.
Software provider Amdocs and Nasscom Foundation will bear the training cost, trainer's cost and other operational expenses at the centre.
Even though there will be dedicated trainers from NIIT Foundation, corporate professionals will volunteer and train people in digital literacy. "We will be glad to visit the centre whenever possible to provide training to people," said Preeti, an employee of Amdocs.
Deputy commissioner T L Satyaprakash, who inaugurated the centre, told TOI, "We will partner very actively with the corporate sector to make NDLM a reality. The government is in the process of making most of the services such as registering for Aadhaar cards, ration cards and PAN cards. However, we have been facing issues because not everybody is digitally literate."
"The initiative is an attempt to close the digital divide by helping individuals harness the power of computers and develop necessary skills to start using them with confidence," said Shrikant Sinha, CEO of NASSCOM Foundation.