Digital India is a program launched by the Indian government in 2015 to transform India into a digitally empowered society. It has 3 key visions: providing digital infrastructure as a utility to citizens, digitizing governance and services, and digitally empowering citizens. The program has 9 pillars including expanding broadband highways, providing universal mobile access, establishing common service centers, implementing e-governance, promoting e-education, healthcare, farming and security, ensuring information reaches all Indians, boosting electronic manufacturing, and creating IT jobs. The overall cost is estimated at Rs. 100,000 crore with impacts like broadband in villages, universal connectivity, digital access points, and training citizens for IT jobs by 2018.
Transform India Into a Digitally Empowered Society Through Digital India Program
1. A program to transform india into a digitally
empowered society and knowledge economy
2. What is digital india?
It is a program prepare by indian government to
prepare india for a knowledge future.
It focous on technical knowledge.
It focus to prepare india for future I.T.
It is an umbrella program- convering many
department.
3. When it accrue?
This program was launch by honorable Indian pm
M.R Narendra modi on July 1, 2015 in the presence of
higher industrial such as Mukesh ambani, Anil
ambani.
A digital india week was organized from this date.
PARAM 80000 was also launched on july 1 , 1991
4. Vision of Digital india
Centered on 3 key
areass
Centered on 3 key
areass
Digital infrastructure
As a utility to every
citizen
Digital infrastructure
As a utility to every
citizen
Governance &
Services on Demand
Governance &
Services on Demand
Digital Empowerment
Of citizens
Digital Empowerment
Of citizens
5. Vision Area 1: infrastructure As a utility to every citizen
It include various part
High speed internetHigh speed internet –– to provide faster internet to
everyone
Digital identityDigital identity – unique identity for every user
Mobile & bank linkingMobile & bank linking – every details available online
Cloud storageCloud storage – space for store digital data
Safe accessSafe access – cyber security for access data online
6. Vision Area 2: Governance & Services on Demand
Real time access – it include services such as court on
video conferencing to provide government related info at
real time.
Citizen information on the cloud – the info of every
citizen on cloud network then he will not face any issue on
another place.
Easy of doing business – services transfer digitally such
as online shopping.
Security for money transaction – such as Cashless
transaction like internet banking.
7. Vision Area 3:Digital Empowerment Of citizens
Digital literacy- it include digital education for
everyone.
Digital resources – such as government
documents on digital platform.
Documents in indian languages – to provide
digital documents in 22 indian languages.
Digital platform – to provide an area to share
your ideas.
9. Pillar 1:Brodband Highways
Its aim is to coordinate all highways villages and public
places with fastest internet
It covers 250 thousands village till December 2016.
10. Pillar 2:Universal mobile access
The initiative is to fill the communication gap between the
country.
All together 42300 uncovered villages will be covered for
providing Universal mobile access.
11. It have two components-
Common service center – to incres till 250000
Post offices as multi service center – to convert
155000 post offices
12. Pillar 4:E-Governance
Form simplification and reduce unnecessary
information
Online application , tracking their status and
interface between departments.
Avoid physical forms for results, voter id.
Integration of various services on one platform.
13. Pillar 5:E-kranti
E-education – all school should be connected with
broadband , all coerces should be online , national
level program on digital literacy.
E-healthcare – online medical consultation, records
& medicine supply.
E-farmers – to provide real time price information.
E-security – to access emergency mobile services.
14. Pillar 6:Information to all
Online hosting of information & document-
Citizen have open, easy access to information
Open data platform
Online messaging – to citizen on special
occasion.
2-Way communication – between citizen &
government.
Government activity on social media – to
provide information to citizens.
MyGov.in
15. Pillar 7: Electronic manufacturing
This pillar focus on promoting electronic
manufacturing in country.
Its target is to make net zero import by 2020 as a
striking demonstration of intent
Focus areas-
set top boxes
mobiles
micro ATM
Smart card
16. Pillar 8: I.T for jobs
Its aim is to train people for work on I.T sector.
1 crore student from small town will be train for I.T sector
in 5 years.
3 laks worker will be train as a part of skill development.
5 laks will be train by telecom department.
17. Pillar 9: Early harvest programmes
I.T platform for messages – under this a database is
develop which covers all government employ 1.36 crore
mobiles & 22 laks emails.
Biometric attendance – it covers all the central
government department to improve lazy administration.
Smart cities – for development of cities coordinate with
public hotspot.
School books to eBooks –all books shall be convert into
e-books
18. Estimated costs and impact
Overall cost of Digital India
Rs 100000 cr in ongoing schemes
R.S 13000 cr cost for new schemes & activities
Impact of Digital india in 2018
Broadband in 2.5 lakh villages.
Universal phone connectivity.
400000 public internet access point.
Digital empowered citizens- public cloud, internet access
1.7 crore trained for I.T by digital platform
Biometrics attendance in university.
Cctv in schools
Online available courses are increases