What do you know about Common Services Centres and Astroturf, mentioned in Parliament

The budget session of Parliament is going on. Many issues are being discussed during this period. MPs are also raising their demands on different issues. In this episode, two such cases arose in the House today, you should know about it. Today, the two issues on which we are going to tell you in easy language, is Common Service Center and Astro Turf. So let’s know what is this two?

 

Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday that the Center has associated its online portal with the common service center (CSC) across the country to redress public grievances across the country to help people living in rural areas register their complaints. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP from Sangrur in Punjab, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hair, raising the issue of state players in the Lok Sabha, demanded the government to make ‘Astro Turf’ in Jalandhar district so that the country could again get good medalist players from this region.

A Common Service Center has been set up by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to oversee the implementation of the CSC scheme under the Companies Act, 1956. The Common Service Center (CSC) scheme provides a centralized collaborative framework to provide services to citizens through CSC, as well as ensure systemic viability and stability of the scheme. If we try to explain to you in easy language, then the Common Service Center is the establishment of places by the Government of India where computer is available freely for the use of citizens. It is used more in rural areas.

These centers provide access to digital government resources and commercial services to citizens in rural areas. A citizen can avail government schemes using these centers. Documentation is also done at these common service centers for various schemes related to the government. This is a major initiative for less educated and rural citizens. However, its number is still very low. If the number of common service centers is increased, it can prove to be a boon for rural areas.

 

Astro turf hockey has Astro Turf grounds on which the game is currently played. However, now it is also used for various sports grounds. Astro Turf has traveled a long way since being introduced on a grand stage in front of the sports world at Astrodom, Houston in 1966. These days, the surface of soft plastic grass often looks and feels like a real thing. The quality has become so advanced that many stadiums used by professional and college football teams have considered it a better option. The government claims that the Modi government has spent seven and a half crore rupees at the center of the Border Security Force (BSF) in Jalandhar Cantt nearby. However, it needs to be made in different parts of the country.