DEHRI SARAI, Jan13 (UNI)

State Chief minister Digvijay Singh has said that Devanagri (Hindi) software would be developed in the State to make in an important centre of northern India. 'We aim to link all the tehsils of the State with computers by the year end'. Mr. Singh told reporters here yesterday after inaugurating a rural cybercafe here in Dhar district.
Stating that internet had brought a revolution in the information sector, he said in a bid to give a boost to the information technology the State government had planned to make a pragmatic utilization of the knowledge based services with an effective participation of the public sector.
Observing that a major chunk of software was being developed in English, he said the State government had embarked on mooting extensive programme to develop Hindi software. 'This would enable the State to become an important centre of northern India'.
Maintaining that development of software parks would entail enormous benefit to the industry and other sectors, he said it was essential to disseminate the benefit of this technology to the common masses.
Referring to the Gyandoot scheme being started in Dhar district, he said the State government would maintain complete transparency in giving franchises for delivering the information services.