In this blogpost, Aashish Ahuja, Student, University Institute Of Legal Studies, HP, writes about what is digital India, aims of digital India, vision of digital India, initiative taken by the government and the impact on the economy.
What is Digital India?
Digital India is an initiative taken by the government of India to ensure that government services are available to the citizens electronically by improving online infrastructures and increasing the internet connectivity. This initiative was taken by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1st July 2015.
Aim of Digital India
- The main aim of Digital India is to transform the country into a digitally empowered knowledge economy.
- The various schemes included are a digital locker, e-education, e-health, e-sign and national scholarship portal.
- Bharat Net in 11 states and next generation network are also the parts of Digital India.
- It includes projects that aim to ensure that government services are available to the citizens electronically and take the benefit of latest information and communication technology.
Vision of Digital India
The vision of Digital India is growth in areas of electronic services, products manufacturing and job opportunities etc. The vision of Digital India is centered on three key areas:
- Digital infrastructure throughout the country which means utility to the Indian people as it will make available a high-speed internet delivering all the government services with ease. It will provide lifelong, unique, authenticable identity to the citizens. It will be easy to access any online services like handling a bank account, financial management, safe and secure cyberspace, education, distance learning,
- High demand for good governance and online services will make available all the services in real time through digitization. Digitally transformed services would also promote online business by making financial transactions easy and electronic.
- Digital Empowerment of Indian people will lead to the possibility of digital literacy through universally acceptable digital resources. It will enable the people to submit the documents or certificates online and not physically in schools, colleges, offices or any other organization.
The Digital India Programme aims to provide
- broadband highways
- universal access to mobile connectivity
- public internet access programme
- e- governance
- reforming government through technology
- information for all
- IT for jobs
- early harvest programmes
- E-Kranti- electronic delivery of services
Initiatives by the Government
The government has launched some of the initiatives.
- Digital locker helps the citizens to digitally store their important documents like pan card, passport, mark sheets and degree certificates. Digital locker provides secure access to government-issued It uses authenticity services provided Adhaar.
- in has been implemented as a platform for citizen engagement in governance through a “Discuss”, “Do” and “Disseminate” approach. The MyGov app will bring these features to the users on a mobile phone.
- Swach Bharat Mission mobile app would be used by people and government organizations for achieving the goals of Swach Bharat Mission.
- Through e- sign framework citizens may digitally sign their documents online.
- It may ease the important health care services through e-hospital system such as online registration, taking doctor appointments, fee payment, online diagnostic tests, blood checkup, etc
- For best management of online services on mobile such as voice, data, multimedia BSNL’s next generation network will replace 30-year-old telephone exchange.
- There is a Broadband Highways in order to handle all the connectivity related issues.
- Open access to Broadband Highways in all the cities, towns and villages will make possibility the availability of world services on the click of a mouse.
- National scholarships portal: This is one stop solution for implementing the entire scholarship process. Here in a single website, one can apply and register for different scholarships provided by different central and state ministries, governments and other agencies. One can receive application forms and process online. This helps in effective and faster processing of scholarships and delivery of funds to the beneficiaries account.
Impact on economy
Digital India has the potential to be one of the most transformative programmes in recent times. Digital India initiatives provide the much-needed impetus to the economic growth. It has given its focus on key social and industry sectors. Not only IT, telecom, electronics, manufacturing sectors will be benefited from Digital India, but we’ll see a positive impact on other industry sectors as well as power sector, banking and financial services.
Sources
http://www.oneindia.com/feature/what-is-digital-india-programme-explained-1792279.html
