List out the areas of ICT applications in rural areas.

 ICTs develop in rural communities a learning and innovation capacity that increases the effectiveness of their efforts to solve problems and improve their lives. They empower these communities and increase the effectiveness of their development efforts through informed decision making to achieve the objectives of poverty eradication, food security, and sustainable development in rural areas.

However, technological applications in our country are largely restricted to urban areas. Rural areas have not reaped enough benefits from them. It is, therefore, necessary, to develop and introduce appropriate of so called green technologies1 coupled with sound delivery system, which ensures economic and ecological sustainability and optimum use of local resources emphasizing on technology capacity building of rural people. In this endeavor, institutional linkages and active participation amongst voluntary agencies, science and technology based field groups, R & D institutions, financial agencies, and above all, people, who are primary stakeholders, become crucial for improving the quality of life in rural areas to achieve long term sustainability.

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