This project is on the topic of DIGITAL INDIA.

1. A Study On effects of Digital India
By,
Pranoy.S.b
Selaiyur, Chennai-73
2017-2018

2. Contents
S.no Title Page-no
1 Chapte-1 Introduction 1
2 Chapter-2 Theoretical overview 7
3 Chapter-3 Graphical analysis and
representation
23
4 Chapter-4 Findings, suggestion and
conclusion
30
5 Bibliography 37

3. List of Tables
Table-No Title of table Page-No
3.1 Gender classification 24
3.2 Family monthly income. 24
3.3 Area of residence. 24
3.4 Educational qualification. 25
3.5 Upliftment of standard of living 26
3.6 Benefited sector out of
Digitalisation.
27
3.7 Digital India effectiveness. 28
3.8 Success rate of digital India 29

4. List of Figures
Figure-no Title of Figure Page-no
3.1 Awareness of Digital India Project. 25
3.2 Adoption of Digital India by Rural
People.
26
3.3 Effectiveness of digitalisation. 27
3.4 Digital India and foreign trade 28
3.5 Rating on Digital India Project. 29

5. 1
Chapter-1
(Introduction)

6. 2
Introduction
The year 2014 is a watershed year in the history of the Indian
republic. This is significant as the said year has heralded the
beginning of a new era. This is the era of Digital India. The
Narendra Modi led Government of India has come up with a
detailed comprehensive vision of India which is digital in all
aspects. The said vision is encompassed in the programme
entitled “Digital India”. The Government of India envisages
Digital India to be a programme that will prepare India for a
knowledge future. Given the ubiquitous use of technology in
various sectors of human life, the focus of the Digital India
programme of Government of India is to make technology
central to enabling change. The perspective of the
programme is transformative in nature in as much as it seeks
to relies IT (Indian Talent) + IT (Information Technology) =
IT (India Tomorrow).For the last few decades since India got
its independence, India has been struggling despite its huge
capabilities. Never before since the dawn of Indian
independence, has the focus of the Indian Government being
on knowledge built future. Digital India programme seeks to
prepare India for a knowledge future economy. This
programme ‘Digital India’ further seeks to be an umbrella
programme which will cover many departments of the

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Government of India. The focus of the programme is that it
brings together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a
single, comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as
part of a larger goal. Digital India programme is coordinated
in India by the Department of Electronics & Information
Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information
Technology, and Government of India and is implemented by
the entire Government. Right from the day of assuming
power, Digital India and Make in India have been two big
USPs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The first steps were
taken with the launch of MyGov.in portal. Narendra Modi
launched his mobile app to connect further with the netizens.
Over the last one year, several initiatives have been taken for
introduction of Information Technology to empower people
in areas relating to health, education, labor and employment,
commerce etc. Digital India Week has been launched with
an aim to impart knowledge to people and to empower
themselves through the Digital India Programme of
Government of India. And another main aim of this project is
to uplift the standard of living under rural areas and make
them to access everything through Digitalisation.

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The Program structure: Digital India comprises of various
initiative under the single programme each targeted to
prepare India for becoming a knowledge economy and for
bringing good governance to every citizens through
synchronized and coordinated engagement of the entire
Government. This programme has been envisaged and
coordinated by the Department of Electronics and
Information Technology (Deity) in collaboration with
various Central Ministries/Departments and State
Governments. The Prime Minister as the Chairman of
Monitoring Committee on Digital India, activities under the
Digital India initiative is being carefully monitored. All the
existing and ongoing e-Governance initiatives have which
been revamped to align them with the principles of Digital
India. Digital India is a programme to transform India into
digital empowered society and knowledge economy. The
Digital India is transformational in nature and would ensure
that the Government services are available to every citizens
electronically. It would also bring in public accountability
through mandated delivery of government’s services
electronically, a Unique ID and e-Pramaan based on the
authentic and the standard based interoperable and integrated
government applications and data basis. The programme will
be implemented in phases from the current year till 2018.

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Study on effect of ‘Digital India’ In INDIA
 To study impact of Digital India in rural areas.
 To study the effect of Digital India in foreign trade.
 To study the effectiveness of Digital India in various state.
 To study preference of people in Digital India.
Research Methodology:
1. Method of study: Judgment sampling, individual
respondent.
2. No of sampling: 25
3. Area of study: Chennai, Tamilnadu
4. Time period: August, 2017 to January, 2018
5. Source of data:
Primary data:
 Consumer survey on Digital India.
Secondary data:
 Study reports from internet.
 Articles in newspaper and internet.
Data collection tools:

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 Questionnaire survey.
 Internet.
 Newspapers.
Limitation found out during data collection.
 Some people ignored answering few questions during
data collection.
 The lack of time to carry out a survey.
 It involved a lot of time consumption for analyzing each
data.
 It made difficult for the people who are less educated to
respond.

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Chapter-2
(Theoretical Overview)

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Introduction:
Digital India is a programme to transform India into digital
empowered society and knowledge economy. The Digital India
is transformational in nature and would ensure that Government
services are available to citizens electronically. It would also
bring in public accountability through mandated delivery of
government’s services electronically, a Unique ID and e-
Pramaan based on authentic and standard based interoperable
and integrated government applications and data basis. The
programme will be implemented in phases from the current year
till 2018.
Approach and Methodology for Digital India Programme:
i. Ministries / Departments / States would fully leverage the
Common and Support ICT Infrastructure established by Gov.
Deity would also evolve/ lay down standards and policy
guidelines, provide technical and handholding support,
undertake capacity building, R&D, etc.
ii. The existing/ ongoing e-Governance initiatives would be
suitably revamped to align them with the principles of Digital
India. Scope enhancement, Process Reengineering, use of
integrated & interoperable systems and deployment of
emerging technologies like cloud & mobile would be
undertaken to enhance the delivery of Government services to
citizens.
iii. States would be given flexibility to identify for inclusion
additional state-specific projects, which are relevant for their
socio-economic needs.

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iv. E-Governance would be promoted through a centralized
initiative to the extent necessary, to ensure citizen centric
service orientation, interoperability of various e-Governance
applications and optimal utilization of ICT infrastructure/
resources, while adopting a decentralized implementation
model.
v. Successes would be identified and their replication promoted
proactively with the required productisation and customization
wherever needed.
vi. Public Private Partnerships would be preferred wherever
feasible to implement e-Governance projects with adequate
management and strategic control.
vii. Adoption of Unique ID would be promoted to facilitate
identification, authentication and delivery of benefits.
viii. Restructuring of NIC would be undertaken to strengthen the IT
support to all government departments at Centre and State
levels.
ix. The positions of Chief Information Officers (CIO) would be
created in at least 10 key Ministries so that various e-
Governance projects could be designed, developed and
implemented faster. CIO positions will be at Additional
Secretary/Joint Secretary level with over-riding powers on IT
in the respective Ministry.

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Overall Costs of Digital India
 Rs 100,000 Cr in ongoing schemes (only Deity, DOT & not
incl. those in other line Ministries)
 Rs 13,000 Cr for new schemes & activities
 Rs 4.5 Lac is total investment promised by Private Sector.
Impact of Digital India by 2019
•Broadband in 2.5 lakh villages, universal phone connectivity
•Net Zero Imports by 2020
•400,000 Public Internet Access Points
•Wi-Fi 2.5 lakh schools, all universities; Public Wi-Fi hotspots
for citizens
•Digital Inclusion: 1.7 Cr trained for IT, Telecom and
Electronics Jobs
•Job creation: Direct 1.7 Cr. and Indirect at least 8.5 Cr.
Digital-Panchayat:
On its own initiative, DEF is convincing and helping Gram
Panchayats or Village Councils to take the digital route for better
governance, set up their own websites and facilitate elected
Panchayat representatives to become digitally literate.
On its own initiative, DEF is convincing and helping gram
panchayats or village councils to take the digital route for better

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governance, to set up their own websites and to facilitate elected
panchayat representatives to become digitally literate.
In 2010, DEF in partnership with the National Information
Exchange of India (NIXI), an autonomous body of the Ministry
of Communication & IT, started convincing gram panchayats to
set up their own websites and go online. The vision is that if the
lowest tier of the governance can able to adopt digitisation then a
grassroots-level transformation can take place in governance and
in participatory democracy. Moreover, Gram Panchayats
themselves can become big change agents by promoting,
encouraging and facilitating digital literacy and access to the
Internet. So far, DEF has helped over 500 gram panchayats to
create their own websites and go online while making over 5,000
GP members digitally literate. Now, with emphasis on the Digital
India programme and related programmes such as the Sansad
Aadarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) and the ongoing NOFN (National
Optic Fibre Network) project to provide broadband connection to
all 2,50,000 gram panchayats, DEF's pioneering effort not only
stands validated but is also likely to get a major boost in the
coming days. DEF is now pushing ahead to help many more
Panchayats become digitally inclusive.
DEF initiated and rolled out the Digital Panchayat programme in
collaboration with the National Internet Exchange of India in

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2010. The programme was launched keeping in mind that ICT
usage is largely missing among elected representatives at the
parliamentary, state and panchayat level. The Digital Panchayat
programme was designed to revolutionise information sharing,
good governance, transparency and publishing information on
development indicators through a web portal for every panchayat.
The web-based dynamic digital interface at the all panchayat level
connected to the electorate and citizens has tremendous relevance
and utility in overall governance and development of our
grassroots constituencies. It facilitates and improves the day-to-
day functioning of panchayats through two-way flow of
information and content. Moreover, information on decisions
taken at Gram Sabha meetings gets recorded and shared through
panchayat websites. This enhances transparency as higher level
officials and bureaucrats cannot change decisions at will.
Objectives:
 To empower citizens of every panchayat with bottom up
and top down information and content.
 To improve the development, governance and public
service delivery at panchayat level through the information
on policy programme and implementation.
 To create a digital data house at every panchayat level.

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 To facilitate growth of panchayat economy through
promotion of panchayat tourism and e-commerce of local
produce.
 To put every panchayat on the global digital map.
 To generate an ICT environment in every panchayat.
 To give fillip to the Right to Information campaign.
Impact:
 More than 500 panchayats have been digitally enabled and
they now have online presence.
 Over 50 CIRCs in 10 states have Digital Panchayat centers
which help panchayats to go online.
 Transparent governance at grassroots level has been
established for more than 2,000 villages, which can now
access panchayat information through their panchayat
websites.
 Over 5,000 gram panchayat members have been made
digitally literate
 All Digital Panchayat centers have NIELIT affiliation for
providing training to panchayat members.

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Countries that has Digitalized at their core: The ‘Digital India
Project’ would be wise to keep an eye on these countries
innovation-(4 countries from which India can learn a thing or two
about digitalization.)
These countries have digitized governments that will put our
Healthcare.gov problems to shame, fast broadband Internet
speeds beyond comparison, and instead of hookup apps, and
you’ll see innovations in energy alternatives. These are exactly
the reasons why America’s magical tech land should keep its eyes
on the countries below.
1. ESTONIA:
You can’t talk about digital excellence without mentioning
Estonia, one of the three Baltic states so innovative, it’s
nicknamed "E-stonia." In 2000, its government deemed Internet
access a basic human right and free Wi-Fi became the norm
throughout the land.
It was the first country to offer voting for general elections online
and most Estonians file their taxes within minutes on their mobile
phones. Their health records are stored in a digital cloud and can
be accessed at any time with their electronic personal access key,
which is also used for other services, such as registering a firm.

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The country is investing in its next generation with programs such
as ProgeTiger ("Programming Tiger") aimed at teaching basic
coding to kids starting at the age of 5. How did Estonia become a
world leader in technology?
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia gained its
independence in 1991 and needed to build a new administration
quickly and cost-effectively. Estonia is said to have the world’s
most digitized government.
2. SOUTH KOREA:
South Koreans are so innovative, they don’t even use credit or
debit cards. Instead, residents use T-money, which can be spent
on trains, taxis, buses, bars, restaurants, or retail stores.
Like Estonia, South Korea has one of the fastest broadband
speeds among all. As most of the world continues to struggle with
4G connection, South Korea is investing in 5G, meaning its
residents will be able to download HD movies without any
problems by 2020. The country’s Ministry of Education, Science
and Technology (MEST) announced it is investing $1.5 billion in
this project alone.

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The South Korean government promotes its startup economy by
pouring $2.7 billion in funding startups and offering tax breaks
for big companies that invest in startups.
A recently published Bloomberg Global Innovation Index ranked
South Korea first among all by examining factors such as research
and development capability, productivity, tech density, and patent
activity.
3. ISRAEL:
Israel’s entrepreneurship spirit comes from the fact that the
country itself is a startup. With little natural resources and
constant political turmoil, Israelis are fighting for better lives by
creating energy alternatives. As a result, we’ve seen some
amazing companies come out of Israel.
The country boasts more startups per capita than any other
country and currently has 70 companies listed on the NASDAQ,
making it third only to the U.S. and China on the stock exchange.
Not bad for a population of 8.2 million.
In 2008, per-capita venture capital investments in the country
were 2.5 times more than the U.S. and 80 times that of China,
according to authors Dan Senor and Saul Singer in their book
Start-Up Nation.

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4. CHINA:
Zhongguancun is sometimes called the "Silicon Valley of the
East," and for a good reason. When Steve Blank, lecturer at the
Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley,
visited this Beijing northwestern district in 2013, he described it
as what "Rome looked like in the time of the empire or New York
in the 1920’s ... now it’s Beijing announcing that China has
arrived." The country is only second to the U.S. when it comes
the venture capital spending, mostly investing in the technology,
media, and telecommunications sectors.
I've seen startup clusters all over the world," says Blank. "But
Beijing blew me away. They've built an ecosystem on a scale that
puts Boston or Seattle to shame. Beijing compressed 30 years of
startup learning into five years."
With its massive 1.3 billion strong population, entrepreneurs in
China will be the ones who can identify unmet needs and use their
resources to provide services and tools to meet those needs.
Entrepreneurs outside of China can only dream of being able to
fill gaps in this massive marketplace.
Still, all of these countries have a lot to prove if they’re going to
be the next Silicon Valley, but the fervor in their entrepreneurship
spirit is definitely heard and felt.

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Nine Pillars of Digital India:
1. Broadband highway: Resting of nationwide optical fiber
network (NOFN) in all 2.5 lakh gram panchayats in the nation
will occur in a phased way. The NOFN will be finished in FY
2016-17 with a complete approximated price of Rs 20,100
crore. NOFN facilities connection is organized to be
formulated by government customer system (GUN) as an
overlay on NOFN. The approximated price of the venture is
Rs 4900 crore as capex and Rs 2,500 crore as open for an
interval of 10 decades.
2. Universal access: Guaranteeing mobile phone access in
around 44,000 discovered towns in the nation and government
is taking action to ensure that all towns are covered through
mobile phone connection by 2018. The government has also
made the decision to set up 1,836 mobile towers to connect
the unconnected areas in the states suffering from Left Wing
Extremism (LWE) at a venture cost of Rs 3,567.58 crore to be
met from USOF.
3. Public Internet access: To develop the protection of
typical solutions middle (CSC) from 1.35 lakhs to 1.5 lakhs,
i.e. one in every panchayat. Even 1.5 lakh post offices to be
transformed to be transformed to a multi-service centers in 2
decades.
4. e-Governance: Business procedure re-engineering will be
performed to enhance procedures and service distribution.
Solutions will be incorporated with UIDAI, transaction access
and mobile platform. Even general public complaint redressal
will be computerized end to end.
5. e-Kranti: e-Kranti concentrates on electronic delivery of
services whether it is education, health, farming, rights and
financial addition. In education, the focus is on digital

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knowledge program and MOOC (massive online open
courses) and installing free Wi-Fi in 250,000 educational
institutions. In healthcare, the government is worrying on the
internet assessment, medical records, medicine supply and
pan India exchange for individual details, pilots by 2015 and
full dental coverage plans in 3 years. Farm owners will get
real-time price details, online cash loan and relief payment
with mobile banking.
6. Information for all: The focus will be on online internet
website hosting service of data and realistic participation
through social media and web based systems like MyGov.
7. Electronics manufacturing: Concentrate is on set top
containers, VSAT, mobile, consumer electronics, technology,
medical electronic devices, intelligent energy meters, Smart
cards and micro ATMs. For this the government is
coordinating on many front be it taxes, rewards, financial
systems of range and offering cost benefits to local producers.
8. IT for Jobs: The government is planning to teaching one
crore learners from small towns and village for IT industry.
Plans are also to exercise 300,000 assistance distribution
providers in 2 years to run practical companies offering IT
services and telecoms companies to train 500,000 rural
workers in 5 years.
9. Early Harvest: The government is planning to set up
Aadhaar Allowed Fingerprint Presence Program in all central
government workplaces situated at Delhi. A web based
application software system will allow online documenting of
attendance and its watching by the involved stakeholders. A
program of properly secured email is being recognized, to
improve its utilization within government program for 50 lakh
workers by March, 2015. To provide Wi-Fi in all colleges on

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NKN by Dec, 2015. All guides will be e-books and SMS
based climate information and disaster alerts.
The 12 Stones of revolution:
Mobile Internet: Though far from unavailable in India,
mobile internet has a long way to go before being reaching
every individual in the country. For this to occur the services
provided must be inexpensive and must allow access from
anywhere in the country. The current user base is estimated to
be 120 million, though under Digital India this number is
expected to rise to around 800 million adopters.
Cloud Technology: Providing computers, networks and
storage as services instead of products to anyone with access
to the internet. This could substantially reduce the costs
required for individuals to gain access to a additional storage
space or become part of a virtual network. Under Digital India
cloud computing could go from non-existent to being
universally adopted across India.
Automation of Knowledge: Development of adaptive,
dynamic and heuristic software capable of making user
decisions based upon user behaviors and interest as well as
interpreting language and performing dictation. Deployable
via smartphones and available to anyone. Potential adoption
estimate as high as 900 million by 2025.
Digital Payments: Highly secure and reliable ‘cash-free’
payment methods enabling payments through a wide variety
of services. Number of retail establishments expected to
switch to this method of payment is nearly 6 million.
Verifiable Digital Identity: Enabling each citizen to own a
digital identity, enabling easy authentication and delivery of
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an estimated 100% of economic transactions will require
Digital Identity verifications.
Internet of Things: Enabling interconnected networks of
low-cost chips and sensors to mine and analyze data in real-
time and provide required feedback. Currently there exists no
network of IOTs in India, however it is estimated that under
DI, the number of connected devices could be as much as 10
billion by 2025.
Intelligent Transport and Distribution: Services and IOTs
working in unison to provide better transportation facilities as
well as enhances road sense and safety. At least 50 cities
expected to offer smart transport by 2025.
Advanced Geographic Information System (GIS):
System that allow usage of geographical information in
conjunction with information derived from the IOT to manage
physical activities and resources across the country. Although
implemented to some extent, advancements could enable
high-precision geo-tagging, 3D data, subterranean data and
more.
Next-Generation Genomics
Low-cost, effective and fast implementation of gene
sequencing to enhance agricultural output quality and
quantity. Additionally, breakthroughs in genomics could lead
to cures for incurable diseases, provide more precise treatment
based on genetic history and improve preventive measures
and vaccinations.
The next three come under “Rethinking Energy”
Advanced Oil and Gas Exploration and Recovery
Technologies to help extract oils from unconventional
sources, such as Shale, while simultaneously helping reduce
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Current unconventional gas production rests at 10 billion
cubic feet but by 2025 that could increase to 235 billion cubic
feet.
Renewable Energy: Enabling power generation form
renewable sources (wind, solar, tidal etc.), to decrease adverse
effects in the climate, lower costs and bring power to areas
isolated from the grid. Solar energy alone could, through
innovations, result in up to 45 gigawatts of energy production.
Advanced Energy Storage: Implementation of energy banks
and storage infrastructures which minimize rates of power
outages, distribution losses and variance in supply. Advanced
energy storage would find widespread application outside of
industrial spaces and professional use. With the appropriate
implementation of the abovementioned technologies, India
can expect to raise its GDP and its welfare exponentially, by
the year 2025.

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Chapter-3
(Data Analysis and Interpretation)

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Table 3.1: Gender classification
Interpretation: 55 out of 100 respondents are male who contributed for
the samplings of Digital Indian project. And other 45 out 100 were
female who showed interest in being a respondent.
Table 3.2: Family monthly income.
Interpretation: 90 out of 100 respondents monthly income is above
30,000, 5% out of 100 respondent’s monthly income lies between 20,000-
30,000. And other 5% people monthly income is between 10,000-20,000.
Table3.3 Area of residents.
Gender Respondent
Male 55%
Female 45%
Income Respondent
Below 10,000 0
10,000-20,000 5%
20,000-30,000 5%
30,000 and above 90%
Residence Respondent
Urban 100%
Rural 0%

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Interpretation: 100 out 100 respondents are living in urban area which
are under Chennai and nearby surroundings. And no people respondent
from rural areas.
Table 3.4: Educational qualification.
Interpretation: 30 out of 100 respondents are from higher secondary
groups, 23% out of 1oo are college graduates, other 25% people are
secondary level students, and remaining 22 out of 100 were post graduates.
Figure 3.1: Awareness of Digital India Project
Education Qualification Respondent
Secondary 25%
Higher secondary 30%
Graduate 23%
Post graduate 22%
70
12
18
0 20 40 60 80
1
2
3
Awarness on Digital India

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Interpretation: 70 out of 100 respondents are aware about the Digital
India Project. 12 out of 100 respondents have no idea about Digital India
Project. 18 out of 100 respondents have just heard the name ‘Digital India
Project.’
Table 3.5: Upliftment on standard of living
Yes 93%
No 7%
Interpretation: 93 out of 100 respondents think that ‘Digital India Project’
will uplift the standard of living and 7 out of 100 respondents think that
‘Digital India Project’ will not able to uplift the standard of living.
Figure 3.2: Adoption of Digital India by Rural People.
65%
35%
Adopt of Digital India by Rural People.
a) Yes, they can
b) I don’t think so

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Interpretation: 65 out of 100 respondents, rural people can able to adopt
the digital changes in the country and 35 out of 100 respondents think that
rural people may not able to adopt the digital changes easily.
Table 3.6: Benefited sector out of digitalisation.
Interpretation: 35 out of 100 respondents, IT sector will get developed
most after digitalization in India. 18 out of 100 respondents think
Education sector will get developed most after digitalization in India. 27
out of 100 respondents think Service sector will get developed most after
digitalization in India.20 out of 100 respondents think rural sector will get
developed most after digitalization in India.
Figure 3.3: Effectiveness of digitalisation.
IT Sector 35%
Educational Sector 18%
Service Sector 27%
Rural Sector 20%
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
General
awarness
E-literarcy Both General
awatness and E-
litecy
Anyother
Effectivness of Digititalisation

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Interpretation: 61 out of 100 responders thinks that e-literacy rate will be
more than other effects. 22 out 100 percentage of peoples are chosen that
it is as general awareness. And other 13 percent people thinks that Digital
India project will uplift both general awareness and e-Literacy.
Table 3.7: Digital India effectiveness.
Interpretation: 57 out of 100 responders opinion is that Digital India
project is effective to country.43 percentage people is that Digital India
project is won’t be effective.
Figure 3.4: Digital India and foreign trade.
Interpretation: 53 out of 100 responders think that the project is fully
related to foreign trade and market. And 47% people have chosen that
Digital India project won’t be relating to foreign trade activity.
Yes 57%
No 43%
Yes , 53
No , 47
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5
Digital India and Foreign trade

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Table 3.8: Success rate of Digital India .
a) Agree 62
b) Disagree 8
c) No idea 30
Interpretation: 62 out of 100 agree that ‘Digital India Project’ will be
successful. 8 out of 100 respondents disagree about the success of ‘Digital
India Project’. Remaining 30 out of 100 respondents have no idea about
the success of ‘Digital India Project.’
Figure 3.5: Rating on Digital India Project.
Interpretation: 24 out of 100respondents rating for ‘Digital India Project’
is Excellent. 63 out of 100 respondents rating for ‘Digital India Project’ is
good. 9 out of 100 respondents rating for ‘Digital India Project’ is fair. 4
out of 100 respondents rating for ‘Digital India Project’ is Poor.
24%
63%
9%
4%
Excellent Good Fair Poor

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Chapter-4(Findings, conclusion and suggestion)

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Summary of finding:
1. Most of the people are aware of Digital India Project.
2. Digital India Project will going to uplift the standard of living.
3. People want to live in a city where every work is digitalized.
4. Literacy to every other rural people and providing digital education is
very important thing to convert India Digitally.
5. Rural people can able to adopt the digital changes only if they will be
given proper guidance of digital literacy & knowledge.
6. IT sector will get employment opportunity because this project requires
people with fresh IT skills. There is going to be vast change in
development in service sector as well as rural sector.
7. After digitalization, educational institutes will become more convenient
as compare to their current services.
8. Availability of free Wi-Fi at all public places is the idea of Digital India
according to most of the people.
9. According to most of the people, Digital India Project has been rated
‘good.’
10. According to people, Digital India Project will get great success.’

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Suggestion:
1. Government’s role in Digital India. Private telecom players are doing
great. However, they cannot be fully depended to fulfil social
commitment especially in areas where revenue potential is low making
Government’s role important and un-avoidable. One area to focus is
diversification and effective use of Country’s 150,000 Post offices
combined with pan India coverage by BSNL for Digital India projects
such as un-banked money management service.
2. Digital India program need to take on with pragmatic approach.
There is nothing known as perfect in planning. Technology is changing
fast. What is good today may become obsolete later. It will take quite
many years for 65,000 villages in India networked with redundant and fail
proof OF cables connectivity. Probable that the technology will undergo
changes by then and the effort would go waste. Pragmatic approach will
be to take on digitalization wherever eco system needed is readily
available by rolling out features, products and services for financial
inclusion and inclusive growth in urban and semi urban areas and towns
and villages and then grow towards remotely rural areas in a phased
manner. The way forward is to keep in mind that Telecom growth in rural
and remote areas shall happen hand in hand with improvement of overall
eco system and basic standard of living.

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3. Cloud Computing, India Cloud and indigenous Internet explorer
servers. There are no two opinion that INTERNET is the best thing that
happened in the technology space. Openness is its greatest merit.
However, being come into existence as a by chance baby with no
regulatory controls in place, INTERNET is slowly turning boon to bane
in many counts, security is one among those. Future wars may not be with
guns and bombs but in the cyber space that can paralyze any country in
no time. The whole world could be in total chaos soon unless clear
segregation done between the sacrosanct Public Switched
Telecommunication network, in its every form and of any technology and
Private Information Communication Networks outside PSTN that has
major presence in the world wide web.
4. Technology based Universal Emergency support Systems,
Solutions and Services. Sexual assault on Women and Children and all
sorts of vandalism on weak had been happening for ages all over the
world. The recent mindless and horrific rape and assault incident in Delhi
and many other places made India to wake up and strong protest against
such heinous crimes. Various forms of upheaval across the country had
made government to bend down and look for better and effective ways
and means to tackle this horrendous problem.

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5. Make Telecom Systems, network, Phones, product and services for
the common man. Phones are no more just phones but mini computers.
However, super hyped high profile Mobile phones can reverse the telecom
growth and to a great extent kill the business itself. Moreover, super hyped
phones are good for phone manufacturers, but ‘It is like putting the cart
before the horse” where advance systems and networks are yet to be ready
across the service area. Therefore, there is urgent need to make Telecom
systems, Networks, Phones, Products and Services that are available,
accessible and affordable to common man. As in every business, success
of telecom business is in its user volume; and ‘Cost of user devices’ and
“Cost of Usage’ are important factors in bringing in business volume.
6. Exclusive Govt. owned communication Systems & Networks for
Administration and Crisis / Disaster management. Government
should have exclusive own communication network for disaster/crisis
management, administration, and security purposes. Quick means of
communication is one of the vital needs at the time of major crisis and
disaster and Counter terror activities. The irony is that public telecom
networks are of no help when it is most needed. The normal telecom
systems and networks are designed for optimum busy hour telephone use
of a routine day. These get choked due to sudden spurt in usage in case of
any calamity. Failure due to overload in one of system can cause
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impossible to design a public telephone network that is capable of
handling the sudden spurt of telephone traffic of sporadic nature that
happen at the time of any major events, crisis and disaster. The way out
is to have non chocking full availability system and network exclusively
for essential services such as security, army, police, ambulance, hospitals, road
transport & traffic control, air traffic control, railways and important persons/
organizations and local administration, that are vital in the crisis
control/disaster management system.
Conclusion:
Most of the people are aware of Digital India. From the survey, we
have concluded that Digital India Project will definitely uplift the
standard of living. People want to live in a digitalized city as it will
provide better lifestyle through digital services. Rural area people
will also be able to adopt the digital changes only if government of
India will provide the proper training and digital literacy. Without a
proper digital training, it will be difficult for the Indians to get
comfortable with digital changes in the country. Digital India will
be providing lots of job opportunities and will help in reducing
unemployment from the country. Service sector will also undergo
vast change as people will able to get all the work done digitally.
The time taken to complete each task will reduce to minimum. It is
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the economy by 2020. GDP of country will also be effected by this
project. This project will definitely bring prosperity & upgradation
to country but certain drawbacks are there as it is fully related to
technology. Security may become the matter of concern. Other than
this, the error in the system may be lead to a serious problem. People
have lots of expectations towards this project. Government of India
has to stand upon the expectations.

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 Sahoo Niranjan and Lohana R. Sarika,
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43. Appendix
QUESTIONNAIRE:
1. Name: _____________________
2. Age:
10-20 30-40
20-30 40+
3. No of family members:
1-2 3 and above
2-3
4. How many earning members are there in your family:
__________________
5. Monthly family income:
Below 10,000 20,000-30,000
10,000-20,000 30,000 and above
6. Gender:
Male Female
7. Resident of:
Urban Rural

44. 8. Educational Qualification:
Secondary Higher secondary
Graduate Post graduate
9. Are you aware of ‘Digital India’ Project?
Yes I’ve just heard the name
No
10.Do you think ‘Digital India’ Project will uplift the standard of living in
rural areas?
Yes No
11.Do you think rural people can able to adopt the digital change in our
country?
Yes they can I don’t think so
12.What do you think as the most benefited sector out of digitalisation?
General awareness E-Literacy
Both a&b
Any other Mention ________________________
13.What do you think of most benefited sector out of digitalisation?
IT Educational
Service Rural
14.Do you think is it effective?
Yes No

45. 15.Do you think further government intervention are required for proper
implementation of ‘Digital India’?
Your comments:
16.Does ‘Digital India’ is related to foreign trade?
Yes No
17.Do you think ‘Digital India’ project will get success?
Agree Disagree
No idea
18.What rating would you give to ‘Digital India’ Project?
Excellent Good
Average Poor