INFO GRAM is a one of its kind computerised service centre, facilitated by NIC Goa State Unit, designed with a view to open up information to the rural masses, empower them and involve them actively in the process of nation building. The project, at the village panchayat level, envisages providing all government services to citizens at one point and shall be implemented in three phases. In the first phase, the services to be provided shall include Birth/ Death registration, issue of certificates, information and application forms of the various central and state government schemes, email, internet access and access to citizen charters of the various departments. The second phase shall include services such as collection of house tax/rent/lease/octroi, construction licensing, crop information, weather information, prices of essential commodities as well as arrival and prices of agricultural commodities at important markets. In the third phase, INFO GRAM envisages creating and maintaining a comprehensive database of all the house-holds and inventory of resources in the village panchayat.
INFO GRAM was inaugurated by Sh Babal Datta Naik, Zilla Panchayat Member, North Goa, at Shiroda Village Panchayat on 16th April'2002.