Digital India Initiative 2015

Mission & Target: To take the nation forward Digitally &Economically

Key Vision Areas of Digital India: 

• Provide infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen.
• Governance & Services on Demand.
• Digital Empowerment of Citizens.

Digital Infrastructure Utility to Every Citizen:

• Availability of high speed internet as a core utility for delivery of services to citizens.
• Cradle to grave digital identity that is unique, lifelong, online and authenticable to every citizen.
• Mobile phone & bank account enabling citizen participation in digital & financial space.
• Easy access to a Common Service Centre.
• Shareable private space on a public cloud.
• Safe and secure cyber-space.

Governance & Services on Demand:

• Seamlessly integrated services across departments or jurisdictions.
• Availability of services in real time from online & mobile platforms.
• All citizen entitlements to be portable and available on the cloud.
• Digitally transformed services for improving ease of doing business.
• Making financial transactions electronic & cashless
• Leveraging Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) for decision support systems & development.

Digital Empowerment of Citizens:

• Universal digital literacy
• Universally accessible digital resources
• Availability of digital resources/services in Indian languages
• Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance
• Citizens not required to physically submit Govt. documents/certificates.
• Citizens can share ideas, interact on website www.mygov.in 

Summary/Three Core Components:

• To sum up, Digital India is an initiative by the Modi Govt to ensure that Govt services are made available to citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity. 
• Rural areas to be connected with high speed-Internet networks.
• The creation of digital infrastructure
• Delivering services digitally.
• Digital Literacy to reduce the Digital Divide.

Project Execution:

• To be executed under the public private partnership monitored by the respective ministries.
• The DI initiative shall be extended to public health care, education, judicial services under the respective ministries.

Nine Pillars of DI Programme:

• Broadband Highways
• Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity
• Public Internet Access Programme
• e-Governance – Reforming Government through Technology
• eKranti - Electronic delivery of services
• Information for All
• Electronics Manufacturing
• IT for Jobs
• Early Harvest Programmes

Infrastructure:

• Broadband in 2.5 lakh villages, universal phone connectivity.
• Optical fibre cables have been laid out in more than 68000 village panchayats.
• Public Internet Access Points, Wi-fi in 2.5 lakh schools, all universities; Public wi-fi hotspots for citizens.
• Across government India to be leader in IT use in services – health, education, banking Digitally empowered citizens.
• public cloud, internet access.
• This will provide the first basic setup to achieve towards Digital India and is expected to be completed by 2017.

Services to be offered under Digital India:

• Digital Locker, e-education, e-health, e-sign and national scholarship portal.  
• 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 sharing of verified electronic documents across government agencies.

Private Public Partnerships:

• Investments via partnerships
• At the launch ceremony of Digital India Week by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, top CEOs from India and abroad committed to invest ₹4.5 lakh crore (US$68 billion) towards this initiative. 
• The CEOs said the investments would be utilitized 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.

Investments made to Digital India:

• Reliance Industries to invest ₹2.5 lakh crore (US$38 billion) across different Digital India heads, to create jobs for over five lakh people. 
• Start Up Fund' to encourage young entrepreneurs who are setting up businesses focused around the Digital India initiative.
• Bharti Group to invest more than ₹1 lakh crore (US$15 billion) in the next five years to create deeper infrastructure in rural and urban India in the areas of e-health and e-education.

Project Execution:

• Facecebook, Google, Microsoft and others to support the Digital India initiative.

• Tech Giants from Silicon Valley, San Jose, California expressed their support for Digital India during PM Narendra Modi’s visit in September 2015. 

• FB promised to work on WiFi Hotspots in rural India.

• 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 $150 million in Indian Start Ups.

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