The document outlines the Early Harvest Programme of the Digital India initiative. It aims to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The Early Harvest Programme includes 10 projects to be implemented quickly such as developing an IT messaging platform for government employees, implementing e-greetings, enabling biometric attendance, providing Wi-Fi access in universities, establishing secure email systems, standardizing government email templates, creating public Wi-Fi hotspots, converting school books to eBooks, offering SMS-based weather and disaster alerts, and launching a national lost and found children's portal.

2. Digital
India
A programme to
transform India into
a digitally
empowered society
and knowledge
economy

3. Digitally
Empowered
Society
 This is a society having
knowledge, skills, behavior in
a boardrangeofdigital Skills
such as smartphones, Tablets,
Laptops etc.
Knowledge
Economy
 This is introduce to transform
a part of human knowledge to
machine.

5. Early Harvest Programme
Early Harvest Programme
basically consists of those
projects which are to be
implemented within short
timeline.

6. 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

7. Standardize government email design
Public wifi hotspots
School Books to be eBooks
SMS based weather information,
disaster alerts
National Portal for Lost & Found
children

8. Made by ANANYA SHUKLA
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9. 1.IT platform for messages
 A mass messaging application has beendeveloped by
DeitY(Department of Electronics and Information Technology )
that will coverelected representatives and all government
employees. Over1.6 croremobiles 22 lakh emails are part of the
database. Theportal was released on15th August 2014. Data
collection and data sanitization areongoing processes.

10. • Coverage: Elected representatives, All Govt
employees
• 1.36 Cr mobiles and 22 Lakh emails are part of
the database
• Mass Messaging Application developed
IT platform
for messages
Targeted Mass
messaging
since July 14

11. 2.Government Greetings to be e-
Greetings
 A basket of e-Greeting
templates have been made
available . Crowd sourcing of
e-Greeting through the MyGov
platform has been
ensured .Crowd sourcing has
also been used to create
design for independence day ,
teacher’s day and Gandhi
jayanti greeting .E -Greeting
portal has been made live on
14th august 2014.

12. Made by ANANYA SHUKLA
• Basket of e-Greeting templates available
• Crowd sourcing of e-Greetings thru
MyGov
• e-Greeting portal ready by 14 August
2014
Governm
ent
Greeting
to be e-
greeting
1st e-Greeting from
PM on 15th Aug
2014

13. 3.Biometric attendance
It will cover all central
Government offices in
Delhi to begin with.
Over 40,000
government
employees from 150
organization have
already registered on
the

14. Common bio-metric
attendance portal at
http://attendence.go
v.in. Government
employees will be
able to mark their
attendance from
any of the central
Government offices
in Delhi .

15. • Coverage all central Govt. offices in Delhi
• On-boarding started in other depts
• Procurement of devices- tender issued.
Biometric
attendance
completed on
Oct 2014

16. 4.Wi-fi in All Universities
 All universities on the National Knowledge Network (NKN) shall
becoveredunder this scheme.Ministry of Human Resources
Development(MHRD) is the nodal ministry for implementing this
scheme.

17. Made by ANANYA SHUKLA
• Scope:All Universities on NKN
• 400 additional Universities
• Cost: Rs 790 cr
Wi-fi in all
Universitie
s
Approval- Oct 2014
Implementation
done by Dec 2015

18. 5.Secure email within government
 Email would bethe primary mode of communication within
government . Thegovernment e-mail infrastructure would be
suitable enhanced and upgraded. Upgration of the infrastructure
would befurther upgraded to cover50 lakh employees by march
2015 at a costof Rs.98 cr.Deity is the nodal department for the
scheme.

19. • Phase 1upgradation for 10 Lakh employees done
• Ph II for 50 Lakh employees by March 2015
• Cost: Rs 98 Cr
Secure email
within
government
Email to be
primary mode of
communication

20. 6.Standardize government email
design
 Standardized templates for Governmentemail would beprepared .
This is beingimplemented by Deity.

21. • Standardized templates
under preparation
Standardize
government
email design
ready on
October 2014

22. 7.Public Wi-Fi hotspots
 Cities with population of over 1million
and tourist centers would beprovided
with public Wi-Fi hotspot to promote
digital cities. Theschemewould be
implemented by DoT and Ministry of
Urban Development(MoUD).

23. • Coverage: cities with pop>1
Mill.,tourist centres
• Nodal Agency: Dot/MoUD
Public Wi-
Fi
hotspots
Digital Cities
Completed by
Dec 2015

24. 8.School Books to be eBooks
All books shall be
converted into eBooks.
Ministry of HRD/ DeitY are
the nodal agencies for this
scheme.

25. • Nodal Agency:
MHRD/DeitY
School Books
to be eBooks
Completed on
March 2015

26. 9.SMS based weather information,
disaster alerts
 SMS based weather information and disaster alerts would be
provided. DeitY’s Mobile seva platform has being made available
for this purpose .Ministry of Earth Science(MoES) (India
Metrological Department-IMD)/ Ministry of home Affairs (MHA)
would bethe nodal organization for implementing this scheme.

27. • DeitY’s mobile Seva Platform
ready Nodal Agency: MoES (IMD) /
MHA (NDMA)
SMS based
weather
information,
disaster alerts
In place by Dec
2014

28. 10.National Portal for Lost & Found
children
 This would facilitate real time information gathering and sharing
on the lost and found children and would go a long way to check
crime and improve timely response.
 DeitY and Department of Women andChild Development
(DoWCD) are the nodal department for this project.

29. • Nodal Agency: DeitY/
DoWCD
National Portal
for Lost &
Found children
placed on Oct
2014