The Common Services Centers of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology has partnered with PayPal to offer immediate Covid relief facilities and drive awareness campaigns regarding prevention and care against the Covid-19 .
The Common Services Centers of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology has partnered with PayPal to offer immediate Covid relief facilities and drive awareness campaigns regarding prevention and care against the Covid-19 pandemic in rural India.
PayPal will support the CSC Academy, CSR wing of CSC, in setting up PSA oxygen plants in five hospitals in four states- one each in Bengaluru (Karnataka), Chennai (TN) and Jaunpur (UP) and two in Patna (Bihar). These plants will be fully automated, designed to work unattended with minimum start-up time to generate oxygen with the desired purity within minutes.
Mobile vans, sponsored by PayPal, will create awareness and provide services like antigen testing, registration for vaccination, basic Covid medicine kits and essential provisions in Karnataka, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh.
May 20, 2021
Till now, they have opened 21,000 centres in various states
The Common Service Centres (CSC) on Thursday said it plans to set up one-lakh LPG distribution centres across India, with focus on rural and semi-urban areas, by March 2022. So far it has opened around 21,000 LPG centres in all the States in tie up with three government oil marketing companies – BPCL, HPCL and IOC.
“We have reached a major landmark of 10,000 LPG distribution centres in tie up with BPCL. We are fast expanding our network of CSCs distributing LPG cylinders mainly in rural areas. We have around 6,000 LPG distribution centres operating in tie up with HPCL and over 5,000 with IOC,” Dinesh Tyagi, Managing Director, CSC said in a statement.
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