Srei BNP Paribas ropes in Sahaj to offer trained operators

B D Narayankar

Press Trust of India

Bangalore, Nov 22: Infrastructure equipment finance
company Srei BNP Paribas today roped in the services of Sahaj
e-Village Limited, a subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure Finance
Limited, for offering trained operators to infrastructure
contractors.
Sahaj works towards eliminating undemocratic digital
divide between rural and urban India under the flagship of
National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). It brings government,
business and services to rural India through an expanding
network of village-level franchisee partners.
"With this initiative we hope to help infrastructure
contractors in getting skilled manpower to complete projects
on time," Srei BNP Paribas CEO D K Vyas told reporters here.
As the largest implementer of NeGP, Sahaj through its
Skill Development Centres (SDCs) has already trained more than
7,600 candidates in different trades in rural areas in six
states, he said.
Sahaj has already rolled out network of over 24,000 Common
Service Centres (CSCs) out of over 28,000 mandated CSCs, he
said. "Each CSC provides host of e-governance, e-learning
and e-commerce services to over 28 crore rural Indians," Vyas
said.
Srei Sahaj e-Village Limited CEO Sanjay Panigrahi said
the company has 5,674 candidates in different vocations
providing highly skilled work force to the construction
industry.