To educate, engage and empower the farming community, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday distributed eKisaan tablets loaded with information on agriculture, education and health.
The tablets, which have been procured with financial assistance from NRI professionals, are part of the government’s ‘Namma Raitha’ platform. This platform will act as a catalyst to share best practices among farmers and facilitate higher interaction.
S.R. Patil, Minister for Information Technology and Bio Technology, said the Namma Raitha project also aimed at providing educational, e-governance, food processing, rainwater harvesting and basic healthcare information to farmers.
In the first phase, 1,500 farmers from Bagalkot and Vijayapura districts would be given the free tablets that have been developed by eKisaan Foundation. Twenty of them were handed over the gadgets symbolically on Saturday.
A dedicated call centre team has been set up to interact continuously with the farming community. The farmers, who will also get free internet from Airtel for the first three months, will also be trained on how to use them, the Minister said.
