A network is proposed to be set up throughout the State beginning with district and sub-divisional headquarters and going down to villages with a population of 2,500 and above. The Corporation signed agreements with ten computer-based industries as programme support agencies here over the weekend for working with the 1,000 information technology 'Gyan Kendras' (knowledge centres) to be established across the State for evolving an institutional mechanism to develop the trained youth manpower with basic IT skills. The Corporation's Chairman, former State Chief Secretary M. L. Mehta, said that on the occasion that the project would help the youths in getting direct and indirect employment, besides bridging the digital divide and fulfilling the manpower needs of a thriving software product business.
The Rajasthan Knowledge Corporation is a multi-stakeholder public limited company comprising the Rajasthan Government; Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation, Mumbai; University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur; Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota; and Centre for e-Governance, Jaipur.
