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Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Communications Dr. Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar inaugurated the Samriddhi Kendra astatine Narakoduru colony successful Guntur territory connected Saturday (June 6, 2026). It was established arsenic portion of the Samriddhi Gram Project nether the Centre’s Bharat Net Udyami strategy of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). The installation was inaugurated successful the beingness of Ponnuru MLA Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar.
After the inauguration, the Minister inspected the centre and reviewed its 11 work divisions, including a Health ATM for aesculapian diagnostics, a postal office, a Jan Aushadhi Kendra, FTTH broadband services, Quad Play connectivity, a accomplishment improvement centre, PM-WANI Wi-Fi facilities, drone-based cultivation services and integer nationalist work platforms. He besides interacted with students undergoing accomplishment improvement training.
Addressing the gathering, Dr. Pemmasani said that the centre was designed to supply aggregate nationalist services nether 1 extortion and service arsenic a exemplary for agrarian development. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's imaginativeness was to make employment opportunities wrong India and trim migration from villages to cities. The aviator project, helium noted, aims to alteration agrarian aspirations into opportunities done technology-driven services.
The Minister said the Health ATM would connection astir 60 diagnostic tests astatine affordable rates, portion medicines astatine the Jan Aushadhi Kendra would beryllium disposable astatine astir fractional the marketplace price. Services specified arsenic passport applications, Aadhaar updates, inferior measure payments and mobile recharges would besides beryllium available. He added that the centre would enactment farmers done ungraded testing, drone spraying services and adept guidance from cultivation scientists.
MLA Dhulipalla Narendra said the centre would payment youth, women, students and farmers by providing integer connectivity and entree to authorities services. During the programme, certificates were distributed to 15 students who completed AI grooming done the centre, portion 100 farmers received PMDS seeds.
This is 1 among the 3 aviator projects undertaken by the Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCoE) successful the country. It has signed Agreements with starring implementation partners - Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) successful Ari & Umri successful Madhya Pradesh, I-Novate Infotech Private Limited successful Chaurawala, Uttar Pradesh and Corpus Enterprises Private Limited successful Narakoduru, Andhra Pradesh, successful October 2025.
The Samriddh Gram Phygital Services Pilot aims to alteration agrarian India done a seamless integration of carnal and integer services, leveraging BharatNet infrastructure.
Several officials from the Department of Telecommunications, section nationalist representatives and villagers attended the event.
