India is a growing nation in both Economically and Culturally. The government is trying to implement a series of initiatives in the growing Society. On of the initiative that the Union Government started is the Digital India.
What is Digital India ?
1. Digital Infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen
- Union Government under Narendra Modi approved the e-governance initiative named Digital India Project
- The project is an initiative to ensure that all government services are available online to the citizens.
- By implementing the new online initiative, it helps the citizens to get the updated data and communication technology inventions
- This should be implemented all the villages and in Urban areas
Early Effort
- The program is a new version of an already existing project named National E-Governance plan
- Later the project is restructure
- Many companies like Silicon Company, Microsoft shows interest in the Central Governed project
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited PM recently and promised in bringing internet access tot all the villages and assure providing affordable and universal online sevices
Functions and Estimate
- Digital India Advisory group will be formed under the Ministry of Communication and IT
- An estimate of one lakh rupees is the total cost of the project
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi headed the project and will be complete by 2019
Areas Of Vision
Digital India aiming three areas which is going to transforms India into a digitally empowered Society and Knowledge economy
- Digital Infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen
- Governance and Services on Demand
- Digital Empowerment of Citizens
- Availability of high speed internet as a core utility for delivery of services to citizens
- Cradle to grave 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
2. Governance and Service on demand
- 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
- 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
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