pune the secretary to the department of information technology jainder singh on monday said that 2008 would be the rollout year for information and communication technology in the countrythe plan to connect 18000 colleges across the states with higher educational institutes computerisation of 13000 courts introduction of broadband in rural areas and setting up of 25000 bsnl centres in villages would start by the mid of this year the estimated expenditure is around rs 10000 crore for the next six years which also includes setting up of one lakh kiosks in rural india he said singh was speaking at the eighth annual initiative on information and communication technology ict and development at baramati the event was jointly organised by vidya pratisthans institute of information technology viit and intel technology india private limited at baramatisingh said the union government has taken several initiatives that need it implementation such as data store and national egovernance plan aimed at improving the quality of work and accessibility to government services the ict is proposed to be used by common service centres to reach out to six lakh villages across the country which will also generate direct employment for over four lakh individualsthe managing director for south asia region of intel technology india pvt ltd said next threshold would be personal computers for masses apart from financial services education rural services healthcare and retail in india there will be around 500 million cellphones 100 million broadband connections and 100 million broadbandenabled devices