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The information and communication technologies (ICT) are being increasingly used by the governments to deliver its services at the locations convenient to the citizens .the rural ICT applications attempt to offer the services of central agencies (like district administration, cooperative union, state & central and government departments) to the citizens at their village door steps .These application utilize the ICT in offering improved and affordable connectivity and processing solutions .Several Government-Citizens (G-C) e-government pilot projects have attempt to adopt these technologies to improve the reach, enhance the base, minimize the processing costs, increase transparency, and reduce the cycle times. A large number are rural e-government application, developed as pilot projects, were aimed at offering easy access to citizen service and improved processing of government to citizen transactions. Some of these al drawn international attention and have won prestigious awards for their innovative approaches. They have demonstrated the power of ICT in rural context and are seen as reference models of future e-government project implementation. Most of these projects have seen developments in the internet technology and dropping costs of PC as opportunity to reach remote location. They use the existing telecom infrastructure and the internet access through ISPs as inexpensive connectivity solution. They tried to package in all possible information service for the rural season as a single point access thought PC based kiosks connected to ISPs. Some projects have experimented with the wireless technology to reach the remote locations.