Common Service Center (CSC)
Common Service Center (CSC)
Common Service Center (CSC) is an information and
communication technology (ICT) access point created under the National
e-Governance Project of the Indian government and has been inherited into the
Digital India Initiate. The project plan
includes the creation of a network of over 100,000 CSCs throughout the country.
The purpose of the project is to provide much-needed information and services
to underserved Indians in rural areas.
What a CSC equipped with?
It’s a kiosk with a personal computer, a wireless connection
(mostly power by BSNL Broadband) and other equipment. Through computer and
Internet access, the CSCs provide multimedia content related to e-governance,
education, health, telemedicine, entertainment and other government and private
services. Other services available are expected to include computer training,
telemedicine delivery, office applications, CD burning, scanning, printing and
digital imaging.
The CSC project was begun in 2006. Project funding and
implementation is through a public- private partnership (PPP). As of 31st
March’2014 there are 1,33,847 CSC Center across India.
Find A CSC
Service Offered through CSC:
Government to Citizen Service (G2C)
PAN Card Service - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/g2c-services/pan-card.html
Aadhaar Services - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/g2c-services/aadhaar.html
Election Services - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/g2c-services/ec-services/ec-com-india.html
Passport Seva - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/g2c-services/passport.html
Business to Citizen Service (B2C)
Mobile Recharge - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/b2c-services/mobile-recharge.html
Mobile Bill Payment - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/b2c-services/mobile-bill.html
Direct To Home (DTH) Recharge - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/b2c-services/dth-recharge.html
Data Card Recharge - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/b2c-services/data-card.html
LIC Premium Payment - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/b2c-services/lic-premium-payment.html
Red Bus (Book Bus Tickets) - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/b2c-services/red-bus-menu.html
SBI Life Insurance Payment - http://apna.csc.gov.in/index.php/b2c-services/sbi-life.html
Bill Cloud is a unique idea of having all the state department payments like (EB, Property Tax, etc)... This is work in Progress as other links which has been quoted above.
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