The Digital India programme aims to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. It includes plans to provide broadband internet connectivity across India, especially rural areas, and provide online access to government services to citizens. The key components are developing digital infrastructure, delivering services digitally, and promoting digital literacy. The goals are to improve governance, empower citizens, and enhance employment opportunities made possible by digital technologies.
The Digital India programme aims to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. It includes plans to provide broadband internet connectivity across India, especially rural areas, and provide online access to government services to citizens. The key components are developing digital infrastructure, delivering services digitally, and promoting digital literacy. The goals are to improve governance, empower citizens, and enhance employment opportunities made possible by digital technologies.
The Digital India programme aims to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. It includes plans to provide broadband internet connectivity across India, especially rural areas, and provide online access to government services to citizens. The key components are developing digital infrastructure, delivering services digitally, and promoting digital literacy. The goals are to improve governance, empower citizens, and enhance employment opportunities made possible by digital technologies.
The Digital India programme aims to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. It includes plans to provide broadband internet connectivity across India, especially rural areas, and provide online access to government services to citizens. The key components are developing digital infrastructure, delivering services digitally, and promoting digital literacy. The goals are to improve governance, empower citizens, and enhance employment opportunities made possible by digital technologies.
Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India in order
to ensure the Government's services are made available to citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology.[1][2] The initiative includes plans to connect rural areas with high- speed internet networks. Digital India consists of three core components: the development of secure and stable digital infrastructure, delivering government services digitally, and universal digital literacy. Launched on 1 July 2015 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is both enabler and beneficiary of other key Government of India schemes, such as BharatNet, Make in India, Startup India and Standup India, industrial corridors, Bharatmala, Sagarmala As of 31 December 2018, India had a population of 130 crore people (1.3 billion), 123 crore (1.23 billion) Aadhaar digital biometric identity cards, 121 crore (1.21 billion) mobile phones, 44.6 crore (446 million) smartphones, 56 crore (560 million) internet users up from 481 million people (35% of the country's total population) in December 2017, and 51 per cent growth in e- commerce What is digital india programme
The Digital India programme is a flagship programme
of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The journey of e-Governance initiatives in India took a broader dimension in mid 90s for wider sectoral applications with emphasis on citizen-centric services. Later on, many States/UTs started various e-Governance projects. Though these e-Governance projects were citizen-centric, they could make lesser than the desired impact. Government of India launched National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) in 2006. 31 Mission Mode Projects covering various domains were initiated. Despite the successful implementation of many e-Governance projects across the country, e-Governance as a whole has not been able to make the desired impact and fulfil all its objectives.
It has been felt that a lot more thrust is required to ensure e-Governance in the country promote inclusive growth that covers electronic services, products, devices and job opportunities. Moreover, electronic manufacturing in the country needs to be strengthened.
In order to transform the entire ecosystem of public services through the use of information technology, the Government of India has launched the Digital India programme with the vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
ADVANTAGES :
1. Indian villages will be benefitted the most as with the phase
of digitalisation they would be provided with even more of basic amenities (like electricity would be surrly provided as it is a base for digitalisation ). 2. Villagers will get an opportunity to discover new things through internet facilities. 3. With digital lockers, our documents would be safely stored. Possibility of loss would be minimised. 4. Online service portals will reduce the delays. All procedures would be transparent. 5. Employment will increase as IT companies will employ more people so as to accomplish there i.e.company's goals. DISADVANTAGES :
1. Government employment might reduce which in turn may
lead to civil servants' unrest. 2. People will use free wifis just for time pass which is current scenario in metros.
Initiatives under Digital India
- The main initiative under Digital India is the ‘National Optic Fiber Network’. Started much earlier in 2011, it was an ambitious program to connect 2.5Lakh Gram Panchayats through broadband. It would be pursued with renewed vigor, planning and monitoring.
Nine pillars of growth areas which would be focused are
Broadband Highways – High speed connectivity and high speed
internet
Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity – To reach
inaccessible areas also
Public Internet Access Programme – Connect India to the
world and newer ideas. It’s a National Rural Internet Mission.
E-Governance Improving governance using technology. This is
to improve the government to citizen interface for various service deliveries.
E-Kranti – Deliver services electronically and thus in a faster and
time bound manner. This is helpful in education, healthcare, planning, security, financial inclusion, justice, farmers, etc.
Information for all - This will bring in transparency and
accountability by easy and open access to documents and information to the citizens.
Electronics manufacturing – This will encourage manufacturing
of electronics in India and reduce electronics import and help in job creation too. This will help in achieving goals of ‘Make in India’ initiative also.
IT for jobs – Employment opportunities will be increased as well
as training aspect will be focused on under ‘Skill India’ program. Focus will be more on IT training.
Early Harvest program – This has a number of programs under
it which are to be implemented within a short timeline. They addresses development in variety of sectors like education (school as well as university level), weather forecast, telecom, social problems like lost and found children, etc.
- Cloud facility will be available. Thus all government
documents/certificates will be available on the Cloud.
- The digital resources/services will be available in Indian
languages.
- ‘MyGov.in’ will help in participative governance.
- Financial transactions would become cashless above a threshold.
- Safe and secure cyber space would be provided.
- Many other minor initiatives and services will be provided
digitally by the government. It has already started providing many services.
- All the above initiatives will open up opportunities to Indian
manufacturers and entrepreneurs, thus helping employment in a direct and indirect way.
A Note on Digital India –
- Digital India is a modified and expanded version of the national
e-governance plan. It seeks to deliver all government services electronically.
- It also will address the issues of public accountability and
transparency through a unique ID and e-Pramaan based on authentic and standard government applications. Fully online delivery will help a lot in this venture. It will reduce corruption.
- Though it may not be a new vision, the energy and efforts that are being put in are noteworthy. The budget is increased almost five-folds.
- It will benefit many sectors like IT/ITeS, Power sector, Education
sector, Telecom sector, Electronics manufacturing, Banking and Financial sector, etc.
- It will connect the entire India and bring to the forefront all the hidden talent and entrepreneurs that constitute the country’s future.
- It will help in achieving universal digital literacy.
- A dedicated monitoring committee headed by the PM as
chairman is constituted to oversee the target achievement in a time bound manner.
- This project will certainly help in improving the Ease of Doing
Business. India ranked 134 in Ease of Doing Business in 2014 as per the World Bank.
- The government’s resolve to implement such ambitious program
can be seen in the JAM trinity solution – Jan Dhan Yojana for financial inclusion and direct benefit transfers based on Aadhaar infrastructure and mobile interface for banking. Tele-medicines, Smart cities, Digital Locker System, eSign, eHospital, Digitize India Platform (DIP) for large scale digitization of records, etc. are other programs which will be implemented. This project will definitely help us in increasing productivity and reap our demographic dividend. Vision area of digital india Vision Area 1:
Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen
• High speed internet as a core utility
• Cradle to grave digital identity -unique, lifelong, online, authenticable
• Mobile phone & Bank account enabling participation in digital & financial space • Easy access to a Common Service Centre
• Shareable private space on a public cloud
• Safe and secure Cyber-space
• Seamlessly integrated across departments or jurisdictions
• Services available in real time from online &mobile platform
• All citizen entitlements to be available on the cloud
• Services digitally transformed for improving Ease of Doing Business
• Making financial transactions electronic & cashless
• Leveraging GIS for decision support systems & development
Vision Area 2:
Governance & Services On Demand
• Universal Digital Literacy
• Universally accessible digital resources
• All documents/ certificates to be available on cloud
• Availability of digital resources / services in Indian languages
• Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance
• Portability of all entitlements through cloud Vision Area
3: Digital Empowerment of Citizen
Universally accessible digital resources
• All documents/ certificates to be available on cloud
• Availability of digital resources / services in Indian languages
• Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance
