Prime Minister to arrive in Goa on Dec 27
Panaji,
Dec
27:
Prime
Minister
Dr.
Manmohan
Singh
will
arrive
in
Goa
today
on
a
two-day
visit
to
attend
several
programmes.
During
his
visit,
Dr.
Singh
will
inaugurate
the
first
phase
of
the
Goa
Broadband
Network
project.
The
project
will
links
the
capital
city
with
the
two
district
and
eleven
taluk
headquarters
as
part
of
promoting
e-governance
and
a
transparency
in
administration.
It
envisages
provision
of
services
to
the
government
such
as
IP
telephony,
online
transaction
portal,
online
education,
healthcare,
online
booking
and
video
conferencing.
It also provides BPO, call centres, KPO and PCOs services besides promoting e-learning and class room education, diagnosis and advice from hospitals and preventive health care from doctors, leave alone video-on demand and broadcast TV apart from broadband connectivity. The Prime Minister will also attend the annual convocation ceremony of the Goa University on Friday. He will present D Lit to renowned playback singer Lata Mangeshkar and eminent scientist Anil Kakodkar.
Tight security arrangements have been made in view of his visit.
ANI
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