Rajasthan: Churu District Administration Launches 'Computer Sakhi' To Educate Rural Women

The district administration has also written to the state government to provide RS-CIT (Rajasthan State Certificate course in Information Technology) on priority so that the trained women could land jobs at the gram panchayat level.

With an aim to empower rural women, the Churu district administration has launched 'Computer Sakhi' to train about 70,000 people for basic programmes and internet. The district administration has also written to the state government to provide RS-CIT (Rajasthan State Certificate course in Information Technology) on priority so that the trained women could land jobs at the gram panchayat level. Around 6,500 women have already availed the training at government school laboratories and another batch is about to start next week.

"We have 70,000 women involved with self-help groups. We aim to make them digital and financially literate so that they can play a positive role in society. We are using government school computer labs. We are utilising the existing infrastructure which is not incurring any additional cost," Churu District Collector Siddharth Sihag told PTI.

He said there are 532 schools in Churu district and almost all of them have computer labs and teachers. "By the end of this year, we will have computer labs in all schools. Soon, they will also have internet connectivity," he said.

Mr Sihag said a proposal has been sent to the state government to give priority to these rural women associated with SHGs in RSCIT for proper certification. He said an in-principle approval has been granted. The pilot run for the programe was started in April with 1,000 women.