Telling About Digital India

Hi Everyone, Today I am going to writing on Digital India campaign which was started on 1st July 2015 by our Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narender Modi. So, Let's Start........

What is Digital India?

Digital India is a Programme to prepare India for a knowledge future. Honorable Shri Narender Modi, Prime Minister of India has laid emphasis on National e-governance plan and gave it's approval for Digital India. Digital India is a programme to transfor
m India into digital empowered society and knowledge economy.

Digital India is projected at Rs 1,13,000 (One Lakh Thirteen Thousand) Crores. This programme has been envisaged by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) and will impact ministry of communications and IT, Ministry of Rural Development. Ministry of Human resource development. Ministry of Health and others. This programme will also benefit all states and union territories. Digital Infrastructure will focus on providing high speed secure Internet. Governance and Services on Demand will stress on integrating services across departments and jurisdictions and making services available in real time for both online and mobile platform. 

The Programme will be implemented in phases from 2014 till 2018. The source funding for most of e-governance projects at present is through budgetary provisions of respective ministries/departments in central or state governments. Requirements of funds for individual projects for Digital India will be worked out by respective nodal ministries/departments but according to government estimate it will cost Rs 1,13,000 crore.

Digital India has the VISION:

Infrastructure as a utility to every citizen:
High speed internet shall be made available in all gram panchayats; Cradle to grave digital identity; Mobile and Bank account would enable participation in digital and financial space at individual level; Easy access to common service centre within their locality; Shareable private space on a public cloud; and Safe and secure cyber space in the country.

Infrastructure as a utility to every citizen:
High speed internet shall be made available in all gram panchayats; Cradle to grave digital identity; Mobile and Bank account would enable participation in digital and financial space at individual level; Easy access to common service centre within their locality; Shareable private space on a public cloud; and Safe and secure cyber space in the country.

Governance and Services on Demand:
Single window access to all persons by seamlessly integrating departments or jurisdictions; availability of government services in online and mobile platforms; All citizen entitlements to be available on the Cloud to ensure easy access; Government services to be digitally transformed for improving ease of doing business; Making financial transactions above a threshold, electronic and cashless; and Leveraging GIS for decision support systems and development.

Digital empowerment of citizens:

Universal digital literacy; All digital resources universally accessible; All government documents/certificates to be available on the Cloud; Availability of digital resources/services in Indian languages; Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance; Portability of all entitlements for individuals through the cloud.

BJP Vision for Digital India:

BJP Election Manifesto 2014 aimed to nurture a Digital India thereby making every household and every individual digitally empowered..

The party aims to make every household digitally literate with a goal to make India the Global Knowledge hub, with IT being a major driver and engine of growth.

So, I hope now you have know much more about The Digital India Campaign. If you have any feedbacks or suggestions then please write it in comment box....
Thanks :-) :-)