Gujarat to place LED screens in villages

In a bid to make rural community abreast with the climatic changes, commodity prices and keep them well-informed about the government schemes for their respective villages, the Gujarat government will place LED screens in the villages.

As a pilot project, the state chief minister Narendra Modi would launch 'Gujarat Swarnim Gram E-Broadcast Project' in Amreli today, the government informed in a statement issued today. Initially the project will be implemented as 'district pilot scheme' in 51 villages of 11 talukas of Amreli district.

The LED screens in villages are expected to rapidly disseminate information relating to precautionary actions at the time of natural calamities, weather information for agricultural use, pro-village schemes of the government, 24-hour alert system, important public messages of the government, daily commodity rates, government recruitments, health related information and others.

The initiative is aimed at establishing a direct contact with villagers. The government spokespersons, Jaynarayan Vyas and Surabh Patel informed that the project was an outcome of the deliberations made during Chintan Shibir organized by chief minister this year and will be the first experiment of mass communication on village level throughout the nation.

Talking about various e-governance initiatives of the state government, the spokespersons further mentioned that the government had connected all 13,696 panchayats of the state with 'E-Gram Vishwa-Gram' broadband connectivity.