Rural development HOW A COW WAS SOLD ON THE NET GUNAWAD DHAR
 Nobody in kalsingh's
village of Gunawad (Dhar Madhya Pradesh) could afford to buy his
Jersey cow. So Singh (above) took his problem to the local Net Kiosk.
Using a program called Gram Haat, headvertised his cow on an intranet
connecting 32 villages. Some e-haggling later, Premnarayan Sharma
of Dilwara village bought the animal for Rs 3,000. Madhya Pradesh's
first rural e-commerce transaction was concluded. Gram Haat is
one of the applications of Gyandoot, a rural e-governance project
that is panchayt-funded but privately managed through kiosks in
villages across Dhar. Aside from opening up a bigger market, it
allows complaints to be e-mailed directly to the district
magistrate and links primary health centres to the district hospital.
Old style governance would have had Singh getting a poor
bargain for his cow, unless a mud and stick cattle mela took place.
Gyandoot has reduced distances to Zero.
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