The document provides an overview of India's Digital India initiative. It discusses the vision and goals of Digital India, which are to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy by focusing on digital infrastructure, governance and services, and digital empowerment of citizens. The key components include improving broadband internet access, digital identity programs, expanding access to services via common service centers, and improving digital literacy. The program management structure establishes oversight committees headed by the Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretary to monitor progress and resolve issues in implementing the various Digital India projects and initiatives across government departments.

1. DIGITAL INDIA : THE POWER TO EMPOWER
Presented By: Shalini Pandey Submitted To-: Dr. Snehlata
Maheshwari

2. INTRODUCTION
 E-governance initiatives in India took a broader dimension in the mid 1990s
for wider sectoral applications with emphasis on citizen-centric services.
 The major ICT initiatives of the Government included projects such as
railway computerization, land record computerization, etc. which focused
mainly on the development of information systems.
 Later on, many states started ambitious individual e-governance projects
aimed at providing electronic services to citizens.

3.  Though these e-governance projects were citizen-centric, they could
make less than the desired impact due to their limited features.
 The isolated and less interactive systems revealed major gaps that were
preventing the successful adoption of e-governance along the entire
spectrum of governance.
 Then arised the need for a more comprehensive planning and
implementation for the infrastructure required to be put in place,
interoperability issues to be addressed to establish a more connected
government.

4.  It has been felt that a lot more push 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.

5. Digital India initiative has been launched on July 3, 2015 (1.13 lakh crore
cost) with a vision to digitally empower each and every citizen of the
country.

7. VISION OF DIGITAL INDIA
 The vision of Digital India programme is to transform India into a
digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
 The Digital India programme is centered on three key vision areas:
Digital
infrastructure
as a core
utility to every
citizen
Governance
and service
on demand
Digital
empowermen
t of citizens

8. VISION I DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AS A UTILITY TO EVERY CITIZEN
 A well connected nation is a prerequisite to a well served nation.
Once the remotest of the Indian villagers are digitally connected
through broadband and high speed internet, then delivery of
electronic government services to every citizen, targeted social
benefits, and financial inclusion can be achieved in reality.
 One of the key areas on which the vision of Digital India is
centered is “digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen”.

9. The key components under this vision includes:
 Availability of high speed internet as a core utility for delivery of services to
citizens
 Digital identity that is unique, lifelong, online and authenticable to every
citizen
 Mobile phone & bank account enabling citizen participation in digital &
financial space
 Easy access to a Common Service Centre
 Shareable private space on a public cloud
 Safe and secure cyber-space

10. VISION II GOVERNANCE & SERVICES
ON DEMAND
 The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) was approved in 2006 to take a
holistic view of e-governance initiatives across the country, integrating them
into a collective vision.
 Around this idea, a massive countrywide infrastructure reaching down to the
remotest of villages is being developed, and large-scale digitization of records
is taking place to enable easy and reliable access over the internet.
 The ultimate objective was to make all government services accessible to the
common man in his locality, through common service delivery outlets, and
ensure efficiency, transparency, and reliability of such services at affordable
costs to realize the basic needs of the common man".

11. Six elements are crucial for ensuring that governance and services
are made available on demand to all citizens:
 Seamlessly integrated services across departments or jurisdictions
 Availability of services in real time from online & mobile platforms
 All citizen entitlements to be portable and available on the cloud
 Digitally transformed services for improving ease of doing business
 Making financial transactions electronic & cashless
 Leveraging Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) for decision support systems
& development

12. VISION III DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT
OF CITIZENS
 Digital connectivity is a great leveler. Cutting across demographic
and socio-economic segments, Indians are increasingly connecting
and communicating with each other through mobile phones and
computers riding on digital networks.
 The Digital India programme itself promises to transform India into
a digitally empowered society by focusing on digital literacy, digital
resources, and collaborative digital platforms. This also places
emphasis on universal digital literacy and availability of digital
resources/services in Indian languages.

13. The key components under this vision includes:
 Universal digital literacy
 Universally accessible digital resources
 Availability of digital resources / services in Indian languages
 Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance
 Citizens not required to physically submit Govt. documents /
certificates

14. APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY
FOR DIGITAL INDIA
 Ministries / Departments / States would fully leverage the
Common and Support ICT Infrastructure established by GoI.
 DeitY would lay down standards and policy guidelines, provide
technical and handholding support, undertake capacity building,
R&D etc.
 The existing e-Govemance initiatives would be suitably restored to
align them with the principles of Digital India.
 States would be given flexibility to identify for inclusion additional
state-specific projects, which are relevant for their socio-economic
needs.

15.  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.
 Public Private Partnerships would be preferred wherever feasible to
implement e-Governance projects with adequate management and
strategic control.

16.  Adoption of Unique ID would be promoted to facilitate
identification, authentication and delivery of benefits.
 Restructuring of NIC would be undertaken to strengthen the IT
support to all government departments at Centre and State levels.
 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.

17. PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE FOR DIGITAL INDIA
PROGRAMME
 The Programme management structure for the Digital India programme as
endorsed by the Union Cabinet is as follow:
1. For effective management of the Digital India programme, the programme
management structure would consists of a Monitoring Committee on Digital
India headed by the Prime Minister, a Digital India Advisory Group chaired by the
Minister of Communications and IT and an Apex Committee chaired by the
Cabinet Secretary.
The structure has the needed secretarial/ monitoring/ technical support and
appropriate decentralization of power and responsibility to ensure effective
execution of the various projects/ components by the implementing
departments/ teams.

18. 2. Key components of the Programme Management structure would be as follows:
 Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for programme level policy decisions.
 A Monitoring Committee on Digital India under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister
which will be constituted with representation drawn from relevant Ministries/
Departments to provide leadership, prescribe deliverables and milestones, and
monitor periodically the implementation of the Digital India Programme.
 A Digital India Advisory Group headed by the Minister of Communications and IT to
solicit views of external stakeholders and to provide inputs to the Monitoring
Committee on Digital India, advise the Government on policy issues and strategic
interventions necessary for accelerating the implementation of the Digital India
Programme across Central and State Government Ministries/Departments. The
composition of the Advisory Group would include representation from the Planning
Commission and 8 to 9 representatives from States/UTs and other Line
Ministries/Departments on a rotational basis.

19.  An Apex Committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary would be overseeing the
programme and providing policy and strategic directions for its
implementation and resolving inter-ministerial issues. In addition it would
harmonize and integrate diverse initiatives and aspects related to integration
of services, end to end process re-engineering and service levels of MMPs and
other initiatives under the Digital India Programme, wherever required.
 Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC)/Committee on Non Plan Expenditure
(CNE) to financially appraise/ approve projects as per existing delegation of
financial powers. The EFC/ CNE headed by Secretary Expenditure would also
be recommending to the CCEA the manner in which MMPs/ eGovernance
initiatives are to be implemented, as well as the financial terms of
participation for States. A representative of the Planning Commission would
also be included in both the EFC and CNE.

20.  A Council of Mission Leaders headed by Secretary, DeitY would be
established as a platform to share the best practices in various
existing and new eGov initiatives under Digital India and also to
sensitize various government departments about ICT projects of
DeitY. While the inter-departmental, integration and interoperable
issues of integrated projects / eGovernance initiatives would be
resolved by the Apex Committee on Digital India headed by
Cabinet Secretary, the technical issues of integrated projects would
be resolved by the Council of Mission Leaders.

21.  Further, considering the scope of the Digital India Programme and the need
to look at issues such as overall technology architecture, framework,
standards, security policy, funding strategy, service delivery mechanism,
sharing of common infrastructure etc. at a programme level, it is proposed
that the technical appraisal of all Digital India projects be done by DeitY, prior
to a project being placed before the EFC/ CNE.
 This appraisal would cover issues relating to inclusion of adoption of
Standards, utilization of Cloud and mobile platforms, consideration of security
aspects, etc.
 The Secretary, DeitY or his representative may also be included as a standing
special invitee to all EFC/CNE meetings, which are appraising/approving
MMPs.
 DeitY has already set up a Programme Management Unit, namely National
eGovernance Division (NeGD) to provide support to departments in
conceptualizing, developing, appraising, implementing and monitoring
respective MMPs / eGovernance Initiatives.

22.  For effective monitoring of Digital India, usage of Project Management
Information System would be mandatory in each new and existing Mission
Mode Projects to capture the real or near real time details about the progress
of the project. This tool should be proficient enough to capture the
parameters for each stage of project namely, conceptualization and
development, implementation and post implementation. The parameters
could be decided in consultation with various line Ministries / Departments
and DeitY.
 Since the “e-Kranti: National eGovernance Plan 2.0” is already integrated with
Digital India Programme, the existing programme management structure
established for National eGovernance Plan (at both national and state level)
will be integrated appropriately with the programme management structure
being envisaged for Digital India Programme at national and State/UT level.

23. PILLARS OF DIGITAL INDIA

24. PILLAR 1 BROADBAND HIGHWAY
This covers three sub components, namely Broadband for All - Rural, Broadband for All - Urban
and National Information Infrastructure (NII).
 Broadband for All - Rural
2,50,000 village Panchayats would be covered under the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)
by December 2016. Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is the nodal Department for this
project.
 Broadband for All - Urban
Virtual Network Operators would be leveraged for service delivery and communication
infrastructure in new urban developments and buildings would be mandated.
 National Information Infrastructure (NII)
NII would integrate the network and cloud infrastructure in the country to provide high speed
connectivity and cloud platform to various government departments up to the panchayat level.

25. PILLAR 2 UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO MOBILE CONNECTIVITY
 There are around 55,619 villages in the country that do not have mobile
coverage. As part of the comprehensive development plan for North
East, providing mobile coverage to uncovered villages has been
initiated. Mobile coverage to remaining uncovered villages would be
provided in a phased manner.
 The Department of Telecommunications will be the nodal department
and project cost will be around 16,000 Crore during 2014-18.

26. PILLAR-3 PUBLIC INTERNET ACCESS
PROGRAMME
The two sub components of Public Internet Access Programme are:
 Common Service Centres (CSCs): CSCs would be strengthened and its number
would be increased from approximately 135,000 operational at present to
250,000 i.e. one CSC in each Gram Panchayats. CSCs would be made viable
and multi-functional end-points for delivery of government and business
services. DeitY would be the nodal department to implement the scheme.
 Post Offices as multi-service centers: A total of 150,000 Post Offices are
proposed to be converted into multi service centers. Department of Posts
would be the nodal department to implement this scheme.

27. PILLAR-4 E-GOVERNANCE: REFORMING
GOVERNMENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
 Using IT to simplify and make the government processes more efficient is
critical for transformation to make the delivery of government services more
effective across various government domains and therefore needs to be
implemented by all Ministries/ Departments.
 All databases and information should be in electronic form and not manual.
The workflow inside government departments and agencies should be
automated to enable efficient government processes and also to allow
visibility of these processes to citizens.
 IT should be used to automate, respond and analyze data to identify and
resolve persistent problems. These would be largely process improvements.

28. PILLAR 5 E-KRANTI ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF
SERVICES
 All new and on-going eGovernance projects as well as the existing projects, which are being revamped, should
now follow the key principles of e-Kranti namely
i. Transformation and not Translation
ii. Integrated Services and not Individual Services
iii. Government Process Reengineering (GPR) to be mandatory in every MMP
iv. ICT Infrastructure on Demand
v. Cloud by Default
vi. Mobile First
vii. Fast Tracking Approvals
viii. Mandating Standards and Protocols
ix. Language Localization
x. National GIS (Geo-Spatial Information System)
xi. Security and Electronic Data Preservation

29. 44 MMPs

30. PILLAR-6 INFORMATION FOR ALL
 Open Data platform (http://data.gov.in ): Open Data platform facilitates proactive
release of datasets in an open format by the ministries/departments for use, reuse
and redistribution. Online hosting of information & documents would facilitate open
and easy access to information for citizens.
 Government shall pro-actively engage through social media: Government shall pro-
actively engage through social media and web based platforms to inform and
interact with citizens. MyGov.in, a platform for citizen engagement in governance,
has been launched on 26th July, 2014, as a medium to exchange ideas/ suggestions
with Government. It will facilitate 2-way communication between citizens and
Government to bring in good governance.
 Online messaging: Online messaging to citizens on special occasions/programs
would be facilitated through emails and SMS.

31. PILLAR – 7 ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING
This pillar focuses on promoting electronics manufacturing in the country with the target of NET
ZERO Imports by 2020 as a striking demonstration of intent. This ambitious goal requires coordinated
action on many fronts, such as:
 Taxation, incentives
 Economies of scale, eliminating cost disadvantages
 Focus areas –Set top boxes, VSATs, Mobiles, Consumer & Medical Electronics, Smart Energy
meters, Smart cards, micro-ATMs, Incubators, clusters
 Safety Standards – Compulsory registration, Support for Labs and MSMEs
 Skill development, Enhancing PhDs
 National Award, Marketing, Brand Building
 National Centres – Flexible Electronics, Security Forces
 R & D in electronics

32. PILLAR -8 IT FOR JOBS
 This pillar focuses on providing training to
the youth in the skills required for availing
employment opportunities in the IT sector.
There are eight components with specific
scope of activities :
1. IT Trainings to people in smaller towns and
villages
2. To train one crore students from smaller
towns & villages for IT sector jobs over 5
years.
3. IT/ITES in Northeastern States
4. This component focuses on setting up BPOs
in every north-eastern state to facilitate ICT
enabled growth in these states.
5. Training Service Delivery Agents
6. The focus is on training three lakh service
delivery agents as part of skill development
to run viable businesses delivering IT
services.
7. Training Rural Workforce on Telecom and
Telecom related services
8. This component focuses on training of five
lakh rural workforce the Telecom Service
Providers (TSPs) to cater to their own needs.

33. PILLAR-8 EARLY HARVEST PROGRAMME
 Early Harvest Programme basically
consists of those projects which are
to be implemented within short
timeline. The projects under the Early
Harvest Programme are as follows:
 IT Platform for Messages
 Government Greetings to be
e-Greetings
 Biometric attendance
 Wi-Fi in All Universities
 Secure Email within Government
 Standardize Government Email
Design
 Public Wi-fi hotspots
 School Books to be eBooks
 SMS based weather information,
disaster alerts
 National Portal for Lost & Found
children

34. www.digitalindia.gov.in

35. deity.gov.in

36. scholorships.gov.in

37. digilocker.gov.in

38. ors.gov.in

39. attendance.gov.in

40. mygov.in

41. mobileseva.gov.in

42. jeevanpramaan.gov.in

43. csc.gov.in

44. etaal.gov.in

45. passportindia.gov.in

46. investindia.gov.in

47. Effective Implementation:
• Designed as a top level model on the technological front
• No proper guidance on how to implement the same on the ground level
Deploy Wi-Fi Centers & Hotspot
• To ensure at least one hotspot per village
• In tribal, backward castes, minorities and geographically difficult areas
Improve IT Literacy
• Use of Digital technology (Mobile, tablet, computer and internet)
• Providing proper usability guidance of ANTI-VIRUS software
CHALLENGES IN FRONT OF DIGITAL INDIA

48. Data Vulnerability
• All the personal details online including bank details, Income tax details, PAN details
• Individual would lose the privacy of the data.
Excessive server Hits
• Majority of the population start using online
• Possibility of crash of online website
Security
• Use of Digital technology (Mobile, tablet, computer and internet)
• Providing proper usability guidance of ANTI-VIRUS software
CHALLENGES IN FRONT OF DIGITAL INDIA

49. CONCLUSION
 Digital India initiative has been launched on July 3, 2015 (1.13 lakh crore cost) with a vision to
digitally empower each and every citizen of the country. Though the plan is ready and we are good
to go, but is it is not that easy to transform words written on a 'white paper' into a reality.
 The foremost challenge is to increase digital literacy in the country. To make broadband affordable
and accessible, one needs to keep in mind certain ground realities. India is a diversified country, in
terms of language, culture, laws which vary from states to states. Complete integration, that is
integration of technology and language, is one of the main challenges the mission would face in its
implementation.
 In a world where Internet and cybercrime are inseparable enemies. The entire architecture should
be designed in such a way that there is proper authentication done of all the documents put online
by citizens and it is available to the right users at any time they want with the right authentication,
so proper security measures needs to be taken by government.
 To get the fruits of the Digital India initiative, there should be efficient inter-governmental
coordination and active participation of all the citizens, then only we will be able to convert the
dream of digital India into reality.