The following topics helps you to access and use the portal effectively.
Sections of this Portal
The portal provides information related to six verticals / domains. They are Agriculture, Health, Education, e-Governance, Social welfare and Energy. A brief summary of the information provided under each vertical / domain is given below.
Verticals
Agriculture
The Agriculture section covers agricultural credit, policies and schemes, production technologies, animal husbandry and fisheries, weather and market information, best practices, on and off farm enterprises and a database of agricultural institutions.
Health
The Health section focuses on women and child health besides various other topics such as sanitation, common diseases, policies and schemes, first aid and mental health.
Education
The education section provides learning resources to children and teachers covering the aspects of Child rights and quality education.
e-Governance
The e-Governance section provides one stop information access to available online citizen services, state specific e-Governance initiatives, mobile governance, RTI etc.
Social Welfare
The social welfare section provides information related to women and child development, welfare of scheduled castes and tribes, minority, disabled and senior citizens, poverty alleviation and disaster management.
Energy
The energy section provides information on technologies, best practices, policies and schemes and database related to energy conservation, improved energy efficiency and enhanced energy production from renewable sources.
Online Services
e-Vyapar
e-Vyapar is a buyer-seller platform which facilitates information exchange between buyers and sellers. It hence serves as a virtual market place that facilitates communities to buy/sell their products among a wider audience. Users are welcome to post items which they intend to buy / sell.
Ask an Expert (AAE)
The Ask an Expert application seeks to connect the experts and users in an authentic, efficient and coordinated manner. It is developed with the objective of providing personalized services to the users who seek authentic and prompt response to their queries on areas related to their livelihood security. Currently, users are welcome to post their queries related to Agriculture, Education and e-Governance.
General Knowledge Quiz
This Online Quiz is developed with an aim to encourage children to check their general knowledge levels and thereby improve their performance and confidence. Children studying in 3rd to 10th class can participate in this quiz programme.
Recaller
This web based service helps users to manage / plan their major financial activities by sending in SMS or email alerts to remind them of pending payments / maturity of their financial products.
VLE - Corner
This platform provides a platform exclusively for Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) of the Common Service Centres across India to share their experiences and discuss on areas of their interest. It also provides useful resources for the benefit of VLEs.
e-Learning courses
To build the knowledge and skills of women, children, youth and under-served communities, several multilingual courses are offered in the areas of Agriculture, Right to Information, Financial Inclusion, etc
Mobile based Maternal Health Awareness - MOTHER
‘MOTHER’ is a mobile based service that can be used to provide personalized voice messages on ante-natal, post-natal and childcare, directly to the pregnant and lactating women on their mobile phones.
Learning Resources
Digital Learning Resources for Children
Digital learning resources on science, maths, language, etc developed by several agencies are offered here for the benefit of users.
Sisu Samrakshak
Sisu Samrakshak is a multilingual multimedia presentation developed by UNICEF. It provides information related to pregnant, lactating women, new born and pre-school child care.
Fundamental of IT for Knowledge Centre Operators
This manual covers the topics including Fundamentals of Computers, Internet concepts & email, Keyboard shortcuts, useful website directory and local language computing. The manual is available in Hindi, Telugu and English.
Basic Hardware Troubleshooting
This manual provides information and useful tips on hardware troubleshooting. The manual is available in Hindi, Telugu and English.
Multimedia Products
Nutrition and Health
This comprehensive multilingual CD has been developed in association with National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), a premier nutrition research institute under Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The content in the CD is aligned under four key heads - Know your food; Nutrient requirement and their sources; Food and diseases and; Food safety.This CD will be useful to community health workers, paramedics and medical professionals, students, housewives and all those who are interested in knowing about the food they eat and its role in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The CD is available in six Indian languages, besides English.
Production of Medicinal,Aromatic & Dye Crops
This interactive CD covers information on 54 commercially important medicinal, aromatic and dye crops including those prioritized by National Medicinal Plants Board. Provides comprehensive information related to production, products and marketing in local languages. The product is available in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and English.
Guidelines for reducing risks in tail end rice cultivation
This multimedia CD, developed in association with CCD, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, gives an overview of a four-point strategy addressing the core need of reducing disaster impacts,. This evolved over four years of a participatory experiment with farmers in the tsunami-affected Cauvery delta region of Tamil Nadu. The CD also gives a brief overview of helpful methodologies used in implementing these strategies. This multimedia resource can be used as a self-learning tool and also as a training module for field-based development workers, researchers and extension officials. The product is available in Tamil and English.
Susthira Vyavasayam
This product deals with sustainable crop production practices with lots of illustrations and field oriented videos. It is a useful material for the farmers and NGOs. The content is supported by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture and SERP, Hyderabad. The product is available in Telugu.
Using Search Facility
Search Functionality
The search functionality helps users to access the content of their requirement quickly. It is available in each and every page of the portal. This facility helps to search the portal content only and not that of the internet.
This functionality in the portal allows users to search using the following:
Specific letters or a word / phrase.
Space between the words/phrases.
Operators (like and, or) among the words.
Live Search
Live Search functionality enhances the power of search in the portal. While typing the letters in the search box, the whole search simplifies and submits all possible matches in the search widget. This live feedback on searching makes finding content much faster and much more effective.
Using the portal
Whatever is existing in the portal has been made possible by people who volunteered to contribute information, images, files and any other data in the area of their expertise. The portal supports 4 distinct types of users:
Anonymous User
Registered Member
Content Contributor
Content Reviewer
The following sections describe in brief the privileges of each type of user:
Anonymous User
As an anonymous user, you can
Browse content
Search Content
Share content via email / social media
Rate a Page
Scroll down to the end of the page
Click on a ‘Star’ for that page at the ‘Page Rating’ section
Participate in discussion forum
Click on the discussion forum listed in the menu of each vertical / domain. Users can also access the discussion forum by clicking on the option present in the on-the-fly bar available in the right side of the webpage.
Users can respond to an existing discussion thread and create new threads.
Provide suggestions / Comments for a Page
Scroll down to the end of the page
Enter your Name and suggestions in the ‘Post Your Suggestion’ section
Click on “Submit’
Vote in Polls
Click on ‘Opinion Poll’ in the ‘Home Page’
Click on your choice and ‘Vote’
Click on “Previous Polls’ to see previous polls conducted
Subscribe for Newsletter
Click on ‘Subscribe to Newsletter in the ‘Home Page’
Enter your email-id and ‘Submit’
Provide ‘Feedback’ on the portal
Click on ‘Give your Feedback’ in the ‘Home Page’
Enter your ‘Name’, email-id and the feedback
Click on Submit
Subscribe to RSS feed
Scroll down to the footer of the page
Click on the RSS icon
Subscribe to any domain to get instant updates
Become a Member or a Content Contributor
Click on “Register’ at the top right-hand corner
Choose the option – Member or CC
Fill in the details
Click on ‘Register’
Watch the above process in this Video clip
Registered Member
As a registered member, you get the all the above privileges of an anonymous user. In addition, you can:
You can edit the pages in the domain that you are approved as Content-Contributor
Please check for the state of the page in the top right corner of the “green band” ; You can edit the pages which are in “Open for Edit” or “Review in Process” states
Click on “Edit” and a ‘Edit” window will be displayed; Make the relevant changes
Click of “Save’
Content Reviewer
As a Content reviewer, you get the all the above privileges of a Content Contributor. In addition, you can: