UNITED NEWS OF INIDA
Indore, Jan 13

  With the opening of rural cyber cafes in Dhar district of Madhaya Pradesh, the benefits of information technology are now being extended to the villages. The first such cafe was opened by Chief Minister Digvijay Singh at Dhehrisurya village here yesterday.
 Twenty-one such internet-intranet cyber cafes, named as 'suchanalaya', have been started in five blocks of Dhar district under the Gyuandoot project, according to an official release her today.
  Through this project benefits of I-T have been extended directly to the people, the Chief Minister said, The Chief Minister said this scheme would be Implemented all over the state in the next two years. It would be used for alleviating the problems of the people and extending various facilities to them.
   In a message sent through the cyber cafe to all the

districts, he said apart from bringing about economic prosperity, it could also engineer social change this would enable the common man to have access to all public offices, making the bureaucracy more transparent and democratic, headded.
  District Collector Dr Rajesh Rajora said panchayats had been connected throughj21 cyber cafe. Information on prices of main agricultural products in mandis, copies of kasra, khatoni for obtaining loans and other purposes, online registration of public grievances and e-mail replies would be provided, he said.
  The zila pahchayat has made available funds amounting to Rs lakh for the project. Each operator would provide 10 percent commission from its in come to the zila panchayat.
  All the 21 centers have been set up at central locations in roadside villages in the district. A remote access server has been provided at the computer control room of the zila panchayat for operating the network.