DigiVaani: Call centre to help rural women entrepreneurs
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Nasscom and Google
Nasscom Foundation along with Google has set up a call centre in collaboration with non-profit Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) to help women farmers scale up their business. It's called the "DigiVaani Call Center".
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Pilot basis across 6 states
The project is being run on a pilot basis to initially reach out to 20,000 rural women entrepreneurs across six states -- Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana and Rajasthan.
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Helps rural women entrepreneurs
At DigiVaani, rural women entrepreneurs will be able to call and get the information about various schemes - either government or non-government -available for them. This can help them scale up their business
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Funded by Google
The call centre will also proactively reach out to rural women entrepreneurs whose data is being made available to them. The project has been funded by Google through its philanthropic arm Google.org.
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About scaling up
A DigiVaani call centre has been set up at the Delhi and Lucknow offices of the with combined headcount of 19 people. Any decision to scale up DigiVaani will be taken after a year.