'Digital India'

Government of India has launch the Digital India campaign to develop a digitally empowered
society and to digitally integrate the government departments and the citizens of India. It aims at
ensuring the government services are made available to people of India electronically. Digital
India programme is centered on three key vision areas:
1.Digital Infrastructure as a 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.
2.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.
3.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.
In line with these objectives, the government has launched some inititaives.
Government also launched a digital locker under the name "DigiLocker".Digital Locker System
aims to minimize the usage of physical documents and enable sharing of e-documents across
agencies. MyGov.in has been implemented as a innovative platform to build a partnership
between citizen and goverment. Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Mobile app would be used by
people and Government organizations for achieving the goals of Swachh Bharat Mission. eSign
framework would allow citizens to digitally sign a document online using Aadhaar
authentication. National Scholarships Portal is said to be a one stop solution for end to end
scholarship process right from submission of student application, verification, sanction and

disbursal to end beneficiary for all the scholarships provided by the Government of
India.The Government of India has undertaken an initiative namely Bharat Net, a high speed
digital highway project using optical fibre to connect lakhs of Gram Panchayats of country.
The Digital India initiative is a promising initiative of the Indian Government. There are some
challenges also for this project like capital , awareness etc. If Digital India will get implemented
successfully then it will boost the development of India.

"Digital India "

From 1st to 7th of July , we are having " Digital week" in India. Digital India is a project
undertaken by the government of India , which aims to transform India into a digitally
empowered and knowledgeable state.
Digital India is actually a project interwoven among the various departments of the
government - Education , Agriculture , IT etc.
Headed and proposed by the ' Communications and Information technology ' ministry,
the Digital India project surely promises bright returns.Once D I ( Digital India ) is
properly implemented, it'll be a golden transformation for India.
Initial plans of the government state that the D I project will be connecting 250,000
villages , suburbs etc with high speed internet connection.
The "Bharat Broadband Network Limited" ( BBNL) will be playing a crucial role in this.
Digitalisation of data will make things much more efficient and fast, paper work will
rapidly decline as well. Also the ties between the government, private sectors and the
public will get way stronger this way.
With a huge number of villages connected via internet, our villages will undergo a huge
change from so called backward regions to digitally equiped areas. Whereas the already
high- tech towns and cities will get even more tech savvy.
Scheduled to be completed by 2019.many of the leading companies have already
invested heavily in this mission. Ambani has recently declared that reliance will invest
2.5 lac crore in DI.
Following stand as Digital India programme's most important and primary objectives-

i) Broadband Highways
ii) Universal Access to mobile phones
iii) Public's Internet Access Programme
iv) e-Governance Reforming government through Technology
v) e-Kranti Electronic delivery of services
vi) Information for All
vii) Electronics Manufacturing Target NET ZERO Imports
viii) IT for Jobs
ix) Early Harvest Programmes.
Every single Indian is looking forward to this mission.
However some other issues need to be resolved before the D I can be executed.
Lack of legal framework, absence of privacy and data protection laws, civil liberties
abuse possibilities, lack of parliamentary oversight for e-surveillance in India, insecure
Indian cyberspace, etc can be major hurdles in the path to Digital India. These
shortcomings need to be solved before hand.