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Community Information means information in the community and for the community. Community Information (CI) may be categorised into three groups-survival information and citizen action information and local information. Community informations are different from conventional information in some respects. Actually, they emerge from the community and useful for the community as well.

Digital media has changed the borison of community information in last few decades. Our country India is not far behind in providing Community Information Services (CIS). In India, the Central as well as State Governments of various states started e-government initiatives and also NGO based initiatives through web for providing services to the citizens also exist. But, in spite of strong, hearily attempt to develop mechanism for free access to information to the community members there are some constraints in the flow of CI in India.

Efforts to be taken from all stakeholders of CIS to overcome these barriers. Community information generally refers to the information required by the community for their daily livelihood situations. Here, the word community means a cross section of people who are searching for particular information at a given point of a time as per their requirements. Mukhopadhyay (2004) defined Community Information (CI) as information for the problems and crises encountered by individuals and their independence at different stages in their lives. It is the information for self-reliance and self-determination.