Union Minister for Law and Justice, Communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad called on Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday at the Secretariat here.
Describing his 40-minute-long meeting as "very, very fruitful", Mr. Prasad, who was in the city to launch the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), told journalists that the PMJDY would be a "great game changer" in terms of financial inclusion, with the likely growth of mobile banking. Through the scheme, banks would be "at your door step."
Pointing out that he had explained to the Chief Minister about the scheme, the Union Minster said he had also requested her that Tamil Nadu should avail itself of various concessions being offered for the manufacturing of electronic goods. To this, she had responded "very favourably."
Giving an account of the Central government's another programme of Digital India, Mr. Prasad said this would transform the entire Indian canvas in terms of digitally empowering every Indian with broadband connectivity and national optical fibre network. It had been planned to cover about 60,000 panchayats this year; one lakh panchayats next year and one lakh thereafter annually.
The "ambitious plan" of the Narendra Modi government was to provide broadband connections to all schools and "WiFi" to all the universities and tourist places. He had requested the Chief Minister to ensure that the programme became success in Tamil Nadu as well because "Tamil Nadu itself is a tech-savvy State."
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