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Yateesh Avula@yatee15

What is Digital India?

DI Program has been launched with the vision of transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.

It aims at ensuring the government services are made available to citizens electronically by reducing paperwork.

It also includes plan to connect rural areas with high-speed internet networks.

Digital India has three core components. > Digital infrastructure > Delivering services digitally > Digital literacy.

The Electronics and IT department will be the implementing agency.

The programme will be implemented in phases from 2014 till 2018.

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Vision of Digital India

Infrastructure as Utility to Every Citizen

Governance and Services on Demand

Digital Empowerment of Citizens

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High speed internet shall be made available in all villages.

Digital identity- unique, lifelong, online and authenticable.

Mobile phone and Bank account enabling participation in digital & financial space.

Easy access to common service centre within their locality.

Shareable private space on a public cloud.

Safe and secure cyber space.

Infrastructure as Utility to Every Citizen

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Governance and Services on Demand

Services available in online and mobile platforms.

All citizen entitlements to be available on the Cloud to ensure easy access.

Services digitally transformed for improving ease of doing business.

Making financial transactions electronic and cashless.

Leveraging GIS for decision support systems and development.

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Digital Empowerment of Citizens

Universal digital literacy.

All digital resources universally accessible.

All documents/certificates to be available on Cloud.

Availability of digital resources/services in Indian languages.

Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance.

Portability of all entitlements through cloud.

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9 Pillars of Digital India

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Our 9 Pillars

Broadband Highways > Laying of national optical fibre network in all 2.5 lakh villages in the country.

Universal Access to Mobile connectivity > Ensuring mobile access in around 44,000 uncovered villages in the country. 

Public Internet access > To expand the coverage of common services center from 1.35 lakhs to 1.5 lakhs.

e-Governance > Business process re-engineeering will be undertaken to improve processes and service delivery.

e-Kranti > e-Kranti focuses on electronic delivery of services.

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Global Information > The focus will be on online hosting of data and proactive engagement through social media and web based platforms.

Electronics Manufacturing > Focus is on set top boxes, mobile, consumer electronics, medical electronics, smart energy meters, smart cards and micro ATMs.

IT Training for Jobs > The government is planning to train one crore students from small towns and villages for IT sector.

Early Harvest Programmes > The government is planning to deploy Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System in all central government offices located at Delhi.

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Digital India programme

Digital Locker > This allows citizen to keep all their certificates, from birth certificate to university degrees, in

digital format online and access them using their Aadhaar numbers.

SMS-based Warning System > This system will provide alerts on cyclones, tsunami and other weather-related natural calamities. 

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Challenges Before Digital India

India has poor regulations in the field of privacy protection, data protection etc.

Many legal experts believe that e-governance and DI without cyber security is useless.

Having incomplete implementation of the National e-Governance Plan of India.

The project also lacks the concept of proper E-waste management.

DI cannot be successful till mandatory e-governance services in India are introduced.

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Scope of Digital India

The overall scope of this programme is:

To prepare India for a knowledge future. 

On being transformative that is to realize IT + IT = IT.

Making technology central to enabling change.

Broadband in 2.5 lakh villages, 400,000 Public Internet Access Points and Job creation.

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Thank YouThank You

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