PM Modi launches Digital India project: Dream comes true!

New Delhi

Moving  onwards on another  project, Prime Minister  Narendra Modi is now going to launch the    'Digital India'  campaign,  aimed  at  making  a  digital   society  and  knowledge economy. "World is facing a risk of blood-less war, threat of cyber crime, India should take a lead in assuring cyber security", said by P.M. Modi.

The programme includes various initiatives, each aimed to prepare India for becoming a knowledge economy and for bringing good democratic governance to citizens through synchronized and coordinated management of the entire government of India.

The vision of Digital India programme is at extreme growth in areas of electronic, services, product and job opportunities etc.The vision of Digital India has mainly three key points -

(i) Digital Infrastructure to satisfy need of every citizen.

(ii) Governance & services on urgent basis.

(iii) Digital Empowerment of citizens.

Digital Locker System is to minimize the usage of paper documents and empower sharing of e-documents across agencies. The sharing of the e-documents will be done via registered repositories/companies by ensuring the authenticity of the documents, says the Government.

Deity has implemented an initiative namely Digitize India Platform (DIP) for large scale digitisation of records in the country that would help in efficient delivery of services to the citizens.

The Government of India has started an initiative namely Bharat Net, a very high speed digital path to join all 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats of country. This would be the world's largest rural broadband connection project using optical fibre.

"The estimated work time  of Digital India by 2019 would be cross cutting, comprise of rural broadband connectivity in all Gram Panchayats, Wi-fi in schools and universities and Public Wi-Fi hotspots. The programme will produce huge number of IT, Telecom and Electronics jobs in many manner. Success of this programme will take India to Digital empowerment and the leader to top in usage of IT related to various domains such as health, education, agriculture, banking, etc," the Government claims.

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