Mukesh Hajela,CEO NICT (Indore)
It is not a dead horse scheme. The Common Service Centers (CSCs) were established to provide e-services to citizens living in villages and not to provide internet connectivity to villages. The players like 3I Infotech, Reliance what you have referred to media are the people those who have stepped in the business without estimation and understanding the scheme and have quoted negative for the subsidy being offered from the Government and that is their wrong planning which has brought this bad name to the scheme.
"The face of Common Service Center is changing with initial road blocks. We do not look for any supportive subsidy from the Government as our income, it is a Public Private Partnership Scheme as private companies is invested a lot. Only what required is the coordination of the synergy to use this network by all the service Department may it be health education, education and rural development. I put it like this that chicken and egg story ends here. The kiosk are set-up (egg) hatch them the way you want. Just because of the miscalculation of some organizations like 3I Infotech, Reliance on the negative bidding trend, they have started, the entire scheme can't be declared as a dead horse".