Guwahati: Union communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday said BPOs (business process outsourcing) will be set up at Majuli, Silchar, Kokrajhar, Diphu and Nagaon in Assam under the Centre's BPO promotion scheme.

Indian BPO Promotion Scheme (IBPS) is an ambitious programme of the BJP-led Union government's Digital India plan. The programme aims at making available job opportunities to youths in small towns and semi-urban areas.

"Already three BPOs have started operations in Guwahati and one each in Jorhat, Imphal and Kohima. These are getting orders from the US. We are digitally empowering the Northeast," he told reporters.

Prasad said three common service centres (CSCs) run by village-level entrepreneurs in Assam had started making and selling sanitary napkins and creating awareness onwomen's health issues in the rural areas.

At present, 2,892 CSCs are active in Assam and making digital delivery of services in the far-flung areas.

Prasad said the government was planning to sell railway tickets and fertilisers through these centres.

"The CSCs also provide tele-law service under which lawyers of National Legal Service Authority give pre-litigation advice to the poor and underprivileged. So far, 2,054 villagers in Assam have availed of this service," he said.

Prasad is here to attend the global investors' summit which begins on Saturday.