Ushering in the IT revolution to villages where more than 70 per cent of the Indian population lives, is a dream that has come true at Warna in the Kolhapur District of Maharashtra. The key objective of the project is to demonstrate the effective contribution of an IT infrastructure to the socioeconomic development of a cluster of 70 contiguous villages around Warna Nagar in the Kolhapur and Sangli Districts of Maharashtra. Provide agricultural, medical, and educational information to villages at Facilitation Booths in their villages. Provide communication facilities at the booths to link villages to the Warana cooperative complex. Bring the world's knowledge at the doorstep of villagers through the Internet via the National Informatics Centre Network.
Computers provide farmers with useful information about fertilizers and crop diseases.
For centuries farmers here have cultivated sugar cane, and the cane fields dominate the countryside, feeding the sweet tooth of one billion Indians. Farmers pride themselves on producing more sugar per acre than anywhere else in India. With computers in all the villages, the farmers are linked to a central network. Suddenly, connectivity is changing a centuries-old way of life. Computers are not just decorative items.