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been brought to every village of Digital India, the work of Setha
through Digital India. For this Singh ji has increased so much,
reason, new digital entrepreneurs that now he gets orders from all
are rising in the country. Setha over the country. He has given
Singh Rawat ji of Ajmer district of employment to hundreds of
Rajasthan runs ‘Darji Online’, an women here. Digital India has
’E-store’. You will wonder what also turned Om Prakash Singh
is 'Darji online'! Actually, Setha ji of Unnao, UP into a digital
Singh Rawat used to do tailoring entrepreneur. He has established
work before Covid. When Covid more than one thousand
came, Rawat ji did not take this broadband connections in his
challenge as a difficulty; rather village. Om Prakash ji has also
as an opportunity. He joined built a free wifi zone around his
the ‘common service centre’ common service centre, which
i.e. CSC E-Store, and started is helping the needy people a
working online. He saw that lot. Om Prakash ji’s work has
customers were placing orders increased so much that he has
for masks in large numbers. He hired more than 20 people. These
hired some women and started people are providing broadband
getting masks made. After this, connection to the schools,
he started his online store named hospitals, tehsil offices and
‘Darji Online’ in which he started Anganwadi centers of the villages
selling stitched clothes of many and are also getting employment
other kinds. Today, with the power from it. Like the common service
center, there are many
such success stories
which are being seen
on the Government
E-market place i.e. GEM
portal.
Friends, I get many
such messages from
villages, which share
with me the changes
brought about by the
internet. The internet
has changed the way
our young friends study
and learn. For example,
when Gudiya Singh
of UP came to her in-
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