If you go to the village of Pallampura in Kerala, there even ninety-year-olds talk on video calls. Voice messages. People above eighty keep checking their bank balance online. Women are seen shopping online and bringing home what they want at low prices. Those uneducated villagers do not depend on anyone for these digital services. They do everything themselves. The reason for that is the project started by the Gram Panchayat named 'Digi Pallampura'. Sarpanchi Rajesh started this program with the intention of making everyone in the village live smart. He wanted to teach digital lessons to everyone in the village. Knowing about the matter, the local college as part of NSS sent the students to that village and identified 3300 people who did not know how to use smart phones. As six of them fell ill, the college offered to teach digital lessons as part of the NSS of all the others. Calling – Voice call on WhatsApp,
They were also taught how to send messages, photos, use other social media, record video and audio, use online banking services and read and write. As everyone is keen to learn and become smart, now Pallampura has been recognized as a village that has achieved complete digital literacy in the country.
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