ISO 9001:2015

DIGITAL INDIA: A STEP FORWARD

Dr. Dinesh Chand Meena

India is a land of villages with 68% of individuals living in around six lakh villages. Without prospering our villages India cannot progress. Since independence various programmes are initiated to develop Indian villages but failed. Indian villages look far behind compared to urban India. The approaching age is of data economy. With increasing use of smart phone, it's possible now to produce different services with one click. To bridge the gap of digital divide between rural and concrete India, Digital India launched on Independence Day, 2015 which is a dream project of Indian government to remodel rural India into a knowledgeable and digitally empowered society where all information and government services are available to them on one click. It’s a step of the government to motivate and connect rural India to a knowledgeable world. Through this government want to finish rural-urban divide. Guided by the concept of urban, providing urban amenities to rural by preserving the ethos of the villages, the initiative includes attaching rural India with high speed internet network. The digital India vision is centered on 3 key areas which are Creation of Infrastructure as a utility to each citizen, Delivery of Governance and services on Demand and Digital Empowerment of all Citizens. The vision aims to rework India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy through infrastructural reforms like high -speed internet to all Gram Panchayats, lifelong digital identification of all citizens by linking them with AADHAR, mobile banking to any or all, easy accessibility to common services centres (CSCs) etc. The programme is to wipe out the digital divide between rural and urban India, connecting and empowering 130 crores Indians with offering them variety of digital solutions in almost every sector whether it's education, health, agriculture, administration so on while generating huge employment through CSCs and IT jobs.

 

KEYWORDS: Digital, Comprehensive Vision, Transformation, Empowerment, Infrastructures.


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