Village Resource Centres or VRCs, are government sponsored programmes that depend on Indian satellites to beam interactive services to mostly rural India on subjects as diverse as agriculture, education, medicine, livestock management and vocational training.
A good example is Telemedicine, where hospitals with communication equipment (audio-visual, etc) can be aided by doctors in distant location. This network includes more than 200 hospitals, some in remote areas.

Village resource centre are set up for enhancing the standard of living of people residing in rural India. The Indian Space Research Organization has set up 291 Village Resource Centre across India which provide integrated service including, tele-education, tele-medicine, tele-fisheries, natural resource information, skill development, interactive farmers, water management and other services that provides boost for development of rural India.