All You Need To Know About Digital India: Hello Guys Today I am going to share some information and detailed summary of Digital India Programme.
All You Need To Know About Digital India
What is Digital India?
It is a central programme to make a country ready for a knowledge-based future. The focus of the Rs 1.13 lakh crore initiative is on using technology to create a participative, transparent and responsive government.
What does it aim to achieve?
The 3 major targets of the programme are:
1. To create a programmed infrastructure as a utility to every Indian citizen. This includes providing high-speed internet, mobile phone and bank account enabling participation in electronic & financial space, shareable private space on a public cloud, and creating a safe and secure cyberspace.
2. The programme aims to take digital literacy to the next level and will focus on finding ways to encourage people to opt for cashless financial transactions.
3. The initiative also aims at seamless integration across departments/jurisdictions and ensuring availability of services in real time from online and mobile platforms. Here are some of the projects and products that have been launched, or are ready for deployment, as part of the campaign:
- a locker system to minimize usage of physical documents and enable their e-sharing via registered repositories.
- MyGov.in as an online platform to engage citizens in governance through a “Discuss, Do and Disseminate” approach.
- Swachh Bharat Mission Mobile app to achieve the goals set by this mission.
- e-Sign framework to allow citizens to digitally sign documents online using Aadhaar.
- e-Hospital system for important healthcare services such as online registration, fee payment, fixing doctors’ appointments, online diagnostics and checking blood availability online.
- National Scholarship Portal for beneficiaries from submission of the application for verification, sanction, and disbursal.
- Digitise India Platform for large-scale digitization of records in the country to facilitate efficient delivery of services to the citizens.
- Bharat Net program as a high-speed electronic highway to connect all 250,000-gram panchayats of the country — the world’s largest rural broadband project using optical fiber.
- BSNL’s Next Generation Network to replace 30-year old telephone exchanges to manage all types of services like voice, data, multimedia and other types of communication services.
- BSNL’s large-scale deployment of wi-fi hotspots throughout the country.
- ‘Broadband Highways’ as one of the pillars of this campaign to address the connectivity issue while enabling and providing technologies to facilitate delivery of services to citizens.
- Outsourcing Policy to create such centers in different north-eastern states and in smaller towns across the country.
- Electronics Development Fund to promote innovation, research and product development to create a resource pool within the country as also a self-sustaining eco-system of venture funds.
- National Centre for Flexible Electronics to promote research and innovation in the emerging area of flexible electronics.
- Centre of Excellence on the Internet of Things (IoT) as a joint initiative of the government agencies and private institutions such as Nasscom.
- To make Post Offices multi-service centers.
- To connect all schools with broadband and free wifi.
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