21 September,2016 08:22 AM IST | | Agencies
The state government is expected to join hands with Hewlett Packard Enterprise with an aim to digitally transform 28,000 villages across Maharashtra
The state government is expected to join hands with Hewlett Packard Enterprise with an aim to digitally transform 28,000 villages across Maharashtra. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who is on a two-day tour to the USA, visited HP in San Francisco and had a meeting with CEO Meg Whiteman.
"HP is keen to partner with Govt of Maharashtra for MahaNet-an ambitious programme of GOM to take digital fibre to 28,000 Gram panchayats," the CM said on Twitter.
By digitally empowering these 28,000 villages, it will ensure efficient governance, best healthcare and education facilities, tweeted Fadnavis, who left for the trip on Sunday night and reached San Francisco late on Monday to participate in the Oracle Open World 2016.
Fadnavis is the first CM invited to deliver a keynote address before the global tech experts. On arriving there, Fadnavis said the agenda of his visit was "Maharashtra's economic growth and employment generation."
Oracle will sign a memorandum of understanding with the state to develop a comprehensive ecosystem for the Smart City initiative.
