The Common Services Centres (CSC) has partnered with Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) to train 100,000 village level entrepreneurs (VLEs) for maintenance of the BharatNet and telecom infrastructure across the country. This will help strengthen availability of reliable internet to the citizens enabling their participation in digital governance and economy.
As part of this partnership, the training on Wi-Fi access points, optical fibre splicing and maintenance will be delivered online through the CSC Academy.
Further, VLEs will be able to access the training content provided by STL in a self-paced mode and through live classes. The training will include hands-on component through trainers from STL at sites where CSC is providing internet connectivity through BharatNet. Following the training, skill competency certificates will be provided to VLEs after an online assessment.
Earlier in July 2019, CSC was given the responsibility of operation & maintenance (O&M) of BharatNet optical fibre cable, first line maintenance of equipment and provision of last mile connectivity through Wi-Fi. Since then, fibre restoration teams comprising more than 10,000 rural youth have been trained and mobilised for the BharatNet maintenance through CSC.
