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PRESS RELEASE Rs.18,000 Crore Investmne Proposals For Digital India Programme Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, recently said that Rs. 18,000 crore worth investment pro-posals have been received till now for the Digital India Programme, of which Rs. 4000 crore have been approved and more are in the pipeline. Speaking at the session on ‘The role of ICT and ‘Digital India’ initiative in India’s growth’ at the 87th AGM of FICCI, Prasad said while there are issues of spectrum to provide high speed con-nectivity and regulatory control, India will become an exciting place as far as Digital India is concerned. E-commerce, he said, was worth billions of dollars and will help increase India’s GDP in a big way.

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SNIPPETS Cairn India Brings The Gift Of Light For Barmer Village Meghwalon ki Dhani is a village situated at the border of Barmer district in middle of the Thar Desert, Rajasthan. The village with a population of around 600 had no access to electricity. Children used to study in light of lantern and women had to cook food in dark or dim light. Households paid a high price for kerosene. All this changed as the village got an unexpected gift on this New Year – the gift of light- when Cairn India presented the villagers a 27 KW solar mini-grid project. With this, for the first time, the village found itself connected to a solar-powered grid. The villagers are elated,