Digital India

Digital India is a campaign launched by the

Government of India to ensure that the
Government's services are made available
to citizens electronically through improved
online infrastructure and by increasing
Internet connectivity or making the country
digitally empowered in the field of
technology.[1][2] The initiative includes
plans to connect rural areas with high-
speed internet networks. It consists of
three core components: the development
of secure and stable digital infrastructure,
delivering government services digitally,
and universal digital literacy.

Launched on 1 July 2015, by Indian Prime

Minister Narendra Modi, it is both enabler
and beneficiary of other key Government
of India schemes, such as BharatNet,
Make in India, Startup India, Standup India,
industrial corridors, Bharatmala and
Sagarmala.

As of 31 December 2018, India had a

population of 130 crore people (1.3 billion),
130 crore (1.3 billion) Aadhaar digital
biometric identity
Digital India
cards, 150 crore (1.5
billion) mobile
phones, 100.6 crore
Motto "Power
(446 million)
To
smartphones, 130
Empower"
crore (1.3 billion)
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internet users up
from 481 million Prime Narendra
Minister(s) Modi
people (80% of the
country's total Ministry Ministry of

population) in Electronics
and
December 2017, and
Information
71 per cent growth
Technology
in e-commerce.[3][4]
 Ministry of
History Finance
Digital India was Key Ashwini
launched by the people Vaishnaw

Prime Minister of Rajeev

India Narendra Modi Chandrasekha

on 1 July 2015, with Launched 1 July

an objective of 2015

connecting rural Status Active

areas with high- Website digitalindia
speed Internet .gov.in (htt
networks and ps://digital
improving digital india.gov.i

literacy.[5][6][7] The n/)

vision of Digital
India programme is inclusive growth in
areas of electronic services, products,
manufacturing and job opportunities. It is
centred on three key areas – digital
infrastructure as a utility to every citizen,
governance and services on demand, and
digital empowerment of citizens.[8] The
plan also attempted to expand access to
the internet in rural areas through the
implementation of the Netcare System
program.

Digital India initiative

The Government of India's entity Bharat
Broadband Network Limited (BBNL) which
executes the BharatNet project is the
custodian of Digital India[9] (DI)
project.[10][11]

New digital services

1. Some of the facilities which will be

provided through this initiative are
Bharat, digital locker, e-education, e-
health, e-sign, e-shopping and the
National Scholarship Portal. As part
of Digital India, Indian Government
planned to launch Botnet cleaning
centers.[12][13]
National e-Governance Plan aimed at
bringing all the front-end government
services online.
MyGov.in is a platform to share inputs
and ideas on matters of policy and
governance.[14] It is a platform for
citizen engagement in governance,
through a "Discuss", "Do" and
"Disseminate" approach.[7]
UMANG (Unified Mobile Application
for New-age Governance) is a
Government of India all-in-one
single unified secure multi-channel
multi-platform multi-lingual multi-
service freeware mobile app for
accessing over 1,200 central and
state government services in
multiple Indian languages over
Android, iOS, Windows and USSD
(feature phone) devices, including
services such as AADHAAR,
DigiLocker, Bharat Bill Payment
System, PAN EPFO services,
PMKVY services, AICTE, CBSE, tax
and fee or utilities bills payments,
education, job search, tax, business,
health, agriculture, travel, Indian
railway tickets bookings, birth
certificates, e-District, e-Panchayat,
police clearance, passport, other
utility services from private
companies and much more.[15]
eSign framework allows citizens to
digitally sign a document online
using Aadhaar authentication.[7]
Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM)
Mobile app is being used by people
and Government organisations for
achieving the goals of Swachh
Bharat Mission.[7]
eHospital application provides
important services such as online
registration, payment of fees and
appointment, online diagnostic
reports, enquiring availability of
blood online, etc.[16][17]
Digital attendance:
attendance.gov.in was launched by
PM Narendra Modi on 1 July
 2015,[5] to keep a record of the
attendance of Government
employees on a real-time basis.[18]
This initiative started with
implementation of a common
Biometric Attendance System (BAS)
in the central Government offices
located in Delhi.[19]
Back-end digitisation
Black money eradication: The 2016,
Union budget of India announced 11
technology initiatives including the
use of data analytics to nab tax
evaders, creating a substantial
opportunity for IT companies to
 build out the systems that will be
required.[20] Digital Literacy mission
will cover six crore rural
households.[20] It is planned to
connect 550 farmer markets in the
country through the use of
technology.[21]
Facilities to digitally empower citizens
Digital Locker facility will help
citizens to digitally store their
important documents like PAN card,
Passport, mark sheets and degree
certificates. Digital Locker will
provide secure access to
Government-issued documents. It
uses authenticity services provided
by Aadhaar. It is aimed at
eliminating the use of physical
documents and enables the sharing
of verified electronic documents
across Government agencies. Three
key stakeholders of DigiLocker are
Citizen, Issuer and
requester.[7][22][23]

BPO and job growth: The

government is planning to create
28,000 seats of BPOs in various
states and set up at least one
Common Service Centre in each of
the gram panchayats in the state.[24]

e-Sampark Vernacular email

service: Out of 10% English
speaking Indians, only 2% reside in
rural areas. Rest everyone depends
on their vernacular language for all
living their lives. However, as of now,
email addresses can only be
created in the English language. To
connect rural India with Digital India,
the Government of India impelled
email services provider giants
including Gmail, office, and Rediff to
provide the email address in
regional languages. The email
provider companies have shown
positive sign and is working in the
same process.[25] An Indian-based
company, Data Xgen Technologies
Pvt Ltd, has launched world's first
free linguistic email address under
the name ‘DATAMAIL’[26] which
allows creating email ids in 8 Indian
languages, English; and three
foreign languages – Arabic, Russian
and Chinese. Over the period of
time, the email service in 22
languages will be offered by Data
XGen Technologies.[27]
"The digital age is changing
everything around us," said Prime
Minister Narendra Modi while
addressing the Sydney Dialogue via
video conference on Thursday. He
spoke about cryptocurrencies and
India's digital revolution. Here are
the top 10 quotes from PM Modi's
speech at the Sydney
Dialogue.[28][29]

The India Business Promotion

Scheme (IBPS), an integral
component of the ambitious Digital
India Programme by Ministry of
Electronics and Information
Technology, Government of India,
monitored by Software Technology
Parks of India , stands as a
visionary endeavor to stimulate the
growth of the Business Process
Outsourcing (BPO) and Information
Technology Enabled Services (ITES)
sector across the diverse
landscape of India. With an
unwavering commitment to
incentivize the establishment of a
remarkable 48,300 BPO/ITES seats
nationwide, IBPS is meticulously
distributed among states, aligning
with their respective populations
and boasting a substantial
allocation of Rs. 493 Crore.
[30][31][32]

Visakhapatnam has created 10,000

jobs under the India BPO Promotion
Scheme (IBPS) of Digital India,
Andhra Pradesh state got 13,792
seat, out of 48,300 seats in
India.[33][34] Pulsus secured 4,095
IBPS seats out of 48,300, topping
154 companies in 93 cities, invested
Rs. 440 crore, leading to 5,000 jobs
in Visakhapatnam, with 4,000 being
women,[35] and secured Rs. 41 crore
in viability gap funding. Gedela
Srinubabu, CEO, expressed pride in
their contribution to IBPS's success,
marking 25,000 jobs created in 15
years, including 5,000 through IBPS.
Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar
lauded Pulsus achievement and
aims to expand the programme into
Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities and rural
areas, shaping India's digital future.
Arvind Kumar, Director General of
STPI, applauded their role in
women's employment.[36]
Training

PMGDisha logo

Ministry

Ministry of Electronics and Information

Technology Ministry of Finance Key people
Ashwini Vaishnaw Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Launched 1 July 2015; 8 years ago Status
Active Website digitalindia.gov.in

Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta

Abhiyan is being executed by PMGDisha
with an outlay of Rs 2,351.38 crore with
the objective of making 6 crore rural
households digitally literate by March
2020.[37][38][39] Pradhan Mantri Gramin
Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (abbreviated as
PMGDisha[40]) is an initiative under Digital
India program, approved by The Union
Cabinet chaired by the PM Narendra
Modi.[41][42] The main objective of the
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta
Abhiyan is to make 6 crore people in rural
areas across India digitally literate,
reaching around 40% of rural households
by covering one member from every
eligible household.[43][44][45]
Ongoing awareness campaign

Annual Digital India Summit & Awards are

held.[46]

E-Cabinet
Taking a step further in e-Governance, for
the first time[47] ever in the country, Andhra
Pradesh government led by Chief Minister
N. Chandrababu Naidu and his Council of
Ministers had its first paperless e-Cabinet
meeting by Using the app e-Cabinet a first-
of-its-kind initiative in the country. The
ministers accessed the entire agenda of
the Cabinet meeting in electronic form by
logging into the app on their laptops or
Tabs.[48] The features of the app to prevent
the user from sharing it with anyone. Also,
there is safety to the data as it is
password-protected unlike in the
conventional method where papers could
easily be taken away from the member of
the Cabinet by anyone.

E-Pragati

E-Pragati, the Andhra Pradesh State

Enterprise Architecture, is a holistic and
coherent framework designed[49] to
provide 750 services to over 30 million
citizens by integrating 34 departments on
a single platform. Unlike computerizing
one department or service in state, e-
Pragati aimed to computerize all
departments and services in the state.
Through this, the citizens will have a
seamless service experience as they no
longer have to go to government offices
and can access the services from
anywhere in the world. With e-Pragati
platform, the government is making an
effort to reach every citizen and serve
them effectively.

Bhudhaar

Bhudhaar is an E-Governance project that

is intended to assign an 11 Digits unique
number[50] to every land parcel in the state
of Andhra Pradesh[51] as part of the "land
hub in E-Pragati programme".[52] First of
this kind platform in India to addressing
issues in land record management
Bhuseva Authority, an inter-departmental
committee was formulated to implement
and monitor the progress.[53] Eventually all
land related transactions will use
Bhudhaar as single source of truth to
reduces land related disputes. On 20 -Feb
2019, Andhra pradesh Assembly given its
consent to the legal usage of Bhudhaar
Number in land documents.
e-Panta (crop booking)

Electronic crop booking (e- Crop booking)

is an Android application launched[54] with
a local name called e-Panta, first of this
kind platform designed in India to know
the ground reality of the crop details and
to analyse the crop pattern across the
Andhra Pradesh state and to capture the
standing crop in the state. Photographs as
evidence in the case of crop damage and
insurance are also available as the arable
land in the state has been captured in
latitude and longitude along with
subdivision and occupancy. All field
officers are trained to capture the crop
details in the existing agricultural fields
using tabs and to upload the crop details
to the server for every crop season.[55] The
features include an online transfer of crop
details to Webland (land record
management website), evidence in the
case of crop damage for insurance,
evidence for crop loans by banks, crop
pattern and water tax demand analysis,
and GPS location of each land parcel
across the state. The mobile app covers
land use and the entire Pattadar's history
of land cover.[56]
Loan charge

Loan charge creation project of

Government of Andhra Pradesh, first of
this kind in is initially developed in India to
curtail bogus and multiple loans issued[57]
to the farmers. By using this module,
Bankers can verify the land details in
adangal and ROR‐1B copies and also know
whether any loan is taken on the same
land. The financial institutions like banks,
Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies
(PACS) and Sub Registrar offices of
Registration Department spread across
the State of Andhra Pradesh are covered
under the application. Nearly 78 lakhs of
farmers, 2.25 crores people of the State
are covered under the project along with
61 Major Banks, PACS and District
Cooperative Central Bank (DCCBs) having
6000 branches are using[58] this
application to deliver the loans and for
creating charges on the land.

Outcomes

Reception

The tableau of Ministry of

Communications and Electronics and
Information Technology passes
through the Rajpath at the 72nd
Republic Day Celebrations, in New
Delhi on January 26, 2021.
The programme has been favoured by
multiple countries including the US, Japan,
South Korea, the UK, Canada, Australia,
Malaysia, Singapore, Uzbekistan and
Vietnam.[59]

At the launch ceremony of Digital India

Week by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in
Delhi on 1 July 2015,[60] top CEOs from
India and abroad committed to invest
₹224.5 lakh crore (US$2.8 trillion) towards
this initiative. The CEOs said the
investments would be utilized towards
making smartphones and internet devices
at an affordable price in India which would
help generate jobs in India as well as
reduce the cost of importing them from
abroad.[61]

Leaders from Silicon Valley, San Jose,

California expressed their support for
Digital India during PM Narendra Modi's
visit in September 2015. Facebook's CEO,
Mark Zuckerberg, changed his profile
picture in support of Digital India and
started a chain on Facebook and promised
to work on WiFi Hotspots in rural area of
India.[62] Google committed to provide
broadband connectivity on 500 railway
stations in India. Microsoft agreed to
provide broadband connectivity to five
hundred thousand villages in India and
make India its cloud hub through Indian
data centres. Qualcomm announced an
investment of US$150 million in Indian
startups.[63] Oracle plans to invest in 20
states and will work on payments and
Smart city initiatives.[64] However, back in
India, cyber experts expressed their
concern over internet.org and viewed the
Prime Minister's bonhomie with Zuckerberg
as the government's indirect approval of
the controversial initiative.[65] The
Statesman reported, "Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's chemistry with Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the social media
giant's headquarters in California may have
been greeted enthusiastically in Silicon
Valley but back home several social media
enthusiasts and cyber activists are
disappointed."[66] Later the Prime Minister
office clarified that net neutrality will be
maintained at all costs and vetoed the
Basic Internet plans.[65] Digital India has
also been influential in promoting the
interests of the Indian Railways.[67]

Criticisms

Several academic scholars have critiqued

ICTs in development. Some take issue with
technological determinism, the notion that
ICTs are a sure-fire antidote to the world's
problems.[68] Instead, governments must
adjust solutions to the specific political
and social context of their nation.[68]
Others note that technology amplifies
underlying institutional forces, so
technology must be accompanied by
significant changes in policy and
institutions in order to have meaningful
impact.[69][70]

It is being thought that there needs to be

more research on the actual worth of
these multimillion-dollar government and
ICT for development projects. For the
most part, the technological revolution in
India has benefited the already privileged
sectors of Indians.[68] It is also difficult to
scale up initiatives to affect all Indians,
and fundamental attitudinal and
institutional change is still an issue.[71]
While much ICT research has been
conducted in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and
Gujarat, poorer states such as Bihar and
Odisha are rarely mentioned.[71]

Digital India as a programme has been

considered by some as a continuation of
the long history of bias towards RIL, which
has previously manifested in the form of
altering TRAI regulations in favour of the
company. Reliance Jio has cited the Digital
India initiative numerous times for its own
marketing purposes.[72]
Impact

Internet subscribers had increased to 500

million in India as of April 2017.[73] On 28
December 2015, Panchkula district of
Haryana was awarded for being the best
as well as top performing district in the
state under the Digital India campaign.[74]

India is now adding approximately 10

million daily active internet users monthly,
which is the highest rate of addition to the
internet community anywhere in the
world.[75]
See also
Electronics and semiconductor
manufacturing industry in India
Flexible electronics
India.gov.in
National e-Governance Plan
Standup India
Startup India
Bangla Sahayata Kendra

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