Article: Digital in Devanahalli ; The first in a series profiling entrepreneurs that look beyond the metros, BT features Comat Technologies, which gives rural people quick access to digitised documents and also trains them for jobs.

Half an hour from Bangalore's airport, villagers line up outside a nondescript shop in Devanahalli village to get a copy of government records ranging from birth, death and caste certificates, to land records. Until three years ago, they did not have this option; residents who wanted to buy land or get certificates to enrol in college had to trek to Bangalore city and the government department concerned, and dodge or deal with waiting touts to get their records.

Today, they can just walk up to a rural business centre (RBC) set up by Comat Technologies, pay Rs 15, give them the relevant number (survey number, in the case of land records) and walk away with a document. Two years ago, when ...

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