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After the successful roll out of their rural IT infrastructure project across several districts of West Bengal, SREI Sahaj e-Village Limited, a subsidiary of SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd., has announced the launch of agricultural services at the Common Service Centers or CSCs. The facility was officially introduced by Dr. Sanjeev Chopra, Principal Secretary of Agriculture, Govt. of West Bengal at the Tathya Mitra Kendra in Jangipara CSC, Hooghly. Dignitaries present at the launch were Mr. M. N Roy, Principal Secretary of P&RD dept, Govt. of West Bengal, Mr. Satish Tiwary, Principal Secretary, Land & Land Reforms Commissioner, and other government officials. The service launched will enable the villagers to conduct soil testing and determine the suitability of soil for the growth of different crops in diverse seasons. Villagers can then upload their soil health report in the portal available to them and use it as reference for the future thus enabling them to improve their ag

A giant step towards Bridging the Rural- Urban Divide New Delhi, Srei Sahaj e-Village Limited, a subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited, has partnered with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), the largest Open University offering distance learning programmes, today to deliver international quality education at affordable costs to the rural population of India through 27,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs) that Sahaj is setting up in the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, and Jammu & Kashmir. This prestigious partnership is aimed at making higher education available to the villagers in their own villages thus bridging the massive rural-urban educational gap. An estimated 100 million rural youth population across the country stands to benefit through the Sahaj-IGNOU partnership. Srei Sahaj-IGNOU will jointly develop new certificated programmes especially designed for the rural youth, providing training in a blended learning en