An Indian Village Goes Online

Reuters (Via Yahoo): This is interesting. An entire Indian village has gone online. Hansdehar, a small village located somewhere on the Haryana-Punjab border in Northern India, has got itself space on the internet. The village’s web site (www.smartvillages.org) has details about population, the number of votes, men and women voters, and cultural information.
There are photographs of this village which has a population of 2,000, and primarily a farming community. There is the picture (right) of a village council — or panchayat — which is holding a meeting about a missing bull. It was never found, villagers say, suspecting theft.
Interesting. But the village has no internet connectivity as of now. At least the younger generation in the village can start using the net to make their life much more efficient than what it’s now.

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