India, July 28 -- Launched as a cornerstone of the Digital India programme, CSCs have evolved into the world's largest rural digital service network. Empowering lakhs of entrepreneurs - especially women - they now represent a scalable, sustainable model for inclusive growth, skilling and grassroots digital delivery

India has been in news for building and promoting the Digital Infrastructure as a public good. It is one of the few countries to have offered such digital infrastructure with connected application to other countries in the world for ensuring that such benefits reach citizens of nations with poor or low level of digital penetration. Some of these are disruptive, as UPI, Digital Locker, Aadhaar, Cowin etc.

There is, however, an...