Today the government has started all the digital facilities and services for the people. Today every youth of the country is taking advantage of the digital campaign in a big way and making digital payments in their daily life. There are still many villages where this campaign has not started and its services are not available in their villages. But in the coming tomorrow, we will hope that the service of Digital India reaches every village, every house and every citizen of the country should use it for their right purpose and work.

Digital India was an initiative taken by the Government of India for providing high-speed internet networks to rural areas. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the campaign on 1st July 2015. Digital India Mission is mainly focused on three areas: 1. Providing digital infrastructure as a source of utility to every citizen. 2. Governance and services on demand. Digital India was established with a vision of inclusive of nine pillars. Each of these areas is a complex programme in itself and cuts across multiple Ministries and Departments. The nine pillars of Digital India are given below: 1. Broadband Highways– This covers three sub components, namely Broadband for All – Rural, Broadband for All – Urban and National Information Infrastructure (NII). 2. Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity- This initiative focuses on network penetration and filling the gaps in connectivity in the country. 3. Public Internet Access Programme- The two sub components of Public Internet Access Programme are Common Services Centres (CSCs) and Post Offices as multi-service centres. 4. e-Governance: Reforming Government through Technology- Government Process Re-engineering using IT to simplify and make the government processes more efficient is critical for transformation to make the delivery of government services more effective across various government domains and therefore needs to be implemented by all Ministries/ Departments. 5. e-Kranti – Electronic Delivery of Services- To improve the delivery of public services and simplify the process of accessing them. In this regard, several e-governance initiatives have been undertaken by various State Governments and Central Ministries to usher in an era of e-Government. e- Governance in India has steadily evolved from the computerization of Government Departments to initiatives that encapsulate the finer points of Governance, such as citizen centricity, service orientation and transparency. 6. Information for All- This pillar aims to ensure transparency and availability of reliable data generated by the line ministries for use, reuse and redistribution for the people of India. 7. Electronics Manufacturing- This pillar focuses on promoting electronics manufacturing in the country. 8. IT for Jobs- This pillar focuses on providing training to the youth in the skills required for availing employment opportunities in the IT/ITES sector. 9. Early Harvest Programmes- This pillar consists of a group of different short- term projects which have immediate effect on the Indian digital ecosystem like IT platform for mass messaging, crowd Sourcing of eGreetings, biometric attendance in the government offices, WI-FI in all universities etc.

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Objectives of Digital India The motto of the Digital India Mission is ‘Power to Empower’. There are three core components to the Digital India initiative. They are digital infrastructure creation, digital delivery of services, and digital literacy. The major objectives of this initiative are listed below: 1. To provide high-speed internet in all gram panchayats. 2. To provide easy access to Common Service Centre (CSC) in all the locality. 3. Digital India is an initiative that combines a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal. 4. The Digital India Programme also focuses on restructuring many existing schemes that can be implemented in a synchronized manner. Advantages of Digital India Mission Digital India Mission is an initiative that encompasses plans to connect the rural areas of the country with high-speed internet networks. Public Internet Access Programme is one among the nine pillars of digital India. On the platform of digital adoption, India ranks amongst the top 2 countries globally and the digital economy of India is likely to cross $1 trillion by the year 2022. Some of the advantages of Digital India are: 1. There is an increase in electronic transactions related to e-governance. 2. An optical fiber network of 2, 74,246 km has connected over 1.15 lakh Gram Panchayats under the Bharat Net programme. 3. A Common Service Center (CSC) is created under the National e- Governance Project of the Indian government which provides access for information and communication technology (ICT). Through computer and Internet access, the CSCs provide multimedia content related to e- governance, education, health, telemedicine, entertainment, and other government and private services. 4. Establishment of digital villages along with well-equipped facilities such as solar lighting, LED assembly unit, sanitary napkin production unit, and Wi- Fi choupal. 5. Internet data is used as a major tool for the delivery of the services and the urban internet penetration has reached 64%. Challenges of Digital India The government of India has taken an initiative through the Digital India Mission to connect the rural areas of the country with high-speed internet networks. Apart from the various initiatives taken by Digital India, there are several challenges faced by it. Some of the challenges and drawbacks of Digital Mission are mentioned below: 1. The daily internet speed, as well as the Wi-Fi hotspots, are slow as compared to other developed nations. 2. Most of the small and medium scale industry has to struggle a lot for adapting to the new modern technology. 3. Limited capability of entry-level smartphones for smooth internet access. 4. Lack of skilled manpower in the field of digital technology. 5. To look for about one million cybersecurity experts to check and monitor the growing menace of digital crime. 6. Lack of user education. Digital India Initiatives The Government has taken up many initiatives under the Digital India campaign. Discussed below are few such important initiatives: 1. DigiLockers – This flagship initiative aims at ‘Digital Empowerment’ of the citizen by providing access to authentic digital documents to citizen’s digital document wallet 2. E-Hospitals – It is a Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) which is a one-stop solution in connecting patients, hospitals and doctors through a single digital platform. Till February 2021, as many as 420 e- Hospitals had been established under the Digital India campaign 3. E-Pathshala – Developed by NCERT, e-Pathshala showcases and disseminates all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals and a variety of other print and non-print materials through the website and mobile app 4. BHIM – Bharat Interface for Money is an app that makes payment transactions simple, easy and quick using Unified Payments Interface (UPI) Impact of Digital India Campaign Since its launch in 2015, the Digital India campaign has left its impact in various fields: • Around 12000 post office branches in the rural areas have been linked electronically. • The Make in India initiative has improved the electronic manufacturing sector in India • Digital India plan could boost GDP up to $1 trillion by 2025 • Healthcare and education sector has also seen a boost • Improvement in online infrastructure will enhance the economy of the country The Digital India program is a new initiative of the Government of India towards making India prosperous. Its main objective is to make the country new records in the field of science and technology. Through this, the only goal is to empower the country digitally. In the present era, today the same country is ahead, which has made science and technology the medium of progress of its country. The Digital India campaign was launched by the Government of India. This campaign is to revolutionize the country through the Internet, as well as strengthen the technological side of India by empowering the Internet. This campaign has been started by the Government of India under the name 'Digital India Campaign'. Beginning of Digital India An event, in the presence of stalwart industrialists like Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry, RIL Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, etc., at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Delhi, was launched on 1 July 2015 under the name Digital India Campaign. Gone. To develop the country digitally and improve the IT institution of the country, Digital India is the important initiative. This program has been unveiled by launching various schemes of Digital India campaign like Digital Locker, National Scholarship Portal, E-Health, E-Education, E-Sign etc. In 2015 a massive compilation organized by the Government of India known as Digital India implemented it in various regions of the country to provide easy access to government services. People across the country improve technology access under this program. Digital India aims to transform the country into a digital-enabled society. It ensures that government facilities are available to residents electronically. This project is most useful for those village people who are settled in remote area of the country or far away from urban area, this project reduce their time usage by providing high speed internet service. Which will now let the villagers do all the work with just one click and avoid traveling to the urban office ports. Various government departments have shown interest in this project like IT, education, agriculture etc., as it gives a glimpse of brighter and more knowledge-equipped future of the country. problem of digital india The journey of e-governance in India has seen many ups and downs in the nineties for wider field applications with emphasis on people-based services. Later on, many States/UTs took up various e-Governance projects. Although these e- governance projects were people-based, they were not as effective as they should have been. This Government of India initiative, started in 2006, was taking along 31 mission mode projects covering various domains. Even after the successful implementation of many e-governance projects across the country, e-governance has not been able to give the expected success. It is felt that a lot of emphasis is needed to ensure e-governance in the country, which promotes inclusive growth involving electronic services, products, devices and job opportunities. In addition, there is a need to strengthen electronic manufacturing in the country. To transform the entire ecosystem of public services through the use of information technology, the Government of India has launched the Digital India program to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The villagers have benefited the most from this. Reliance India's Jio network service has changed the face of the country by providing net facility at a very low rate. Now every hand has a touchscreen mobile phone, be it in the city or the village. Due to digitization, now we can book tickets for rail, plane, bus sitting at home. No need to stand in long queues anymore. Now everything is possible online. Any information needed, everything is available on the Internet. Don't have time, and have to shop, no problem, shop online, sitting at home. E-commerce platforms have given livelihood to many. Driven by the Government of India, Digital India is a campaign launched to empower the country digitally. The objective of this campaign is to reduce paperwork by upgrading government services. Nine Pillars of Digital India 1) Broadband facility There is a plan to connect about 2.5 lakh panchayats under Digital India. The plan to spread the optical fiber network across the country with an estimated amount of twenty thousand crores was made in 2016-2017. 2) Door to door phone Mobile phone users in India crossed 581 million users in 2014 and have grown steadily over the past decade. According to a survey by eMarketer in 2015, India was estimated to have over 800 million mobile phone users in 2019. 3) Public Internet Access Program - National Rural Internet Mission Through this program CSCs have been made all-inclusive through multi- dimensional end-points for service delivery through Gram-Panchayats. The target is to reach about 130,000 to 250,000 villages through DITY at a cost of about Rs 4,750 crore. Also, post offices are to be made multi-service centres. 4) E-Governance : Reform through Technology Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) using IT to improve transactions including government simplification and reduction, online applications, developing interface between departments, use of online collections such as school certificates and voter IDs, integration of services and platforms Will do Such as payment gateway, mobile platform etc. 5) E-Kranti : Electronic Delivery of Services This will include promotion of technology in the areas of planning, agriculture, education, health, financial inclusion, justice and security. In the field of agriculture, the development of technology for farmers will result in the development of mobile banking along with real-time information, online ordering of inputs (such as fertilizers) and online cash, loan, relief-payments. 6) Information for all The purpose of the column 'Information to all' will include providing information online and hosting websites and documents. This will be accompanied by the development of open data platforms in general, as well as an easy and open access to information by the public. 7) Electronics Manufacturing: Net Zero Import Target by 2020 In India, there is a need to strengthen the existing infrastructure to promote electronic manufacturing; A target of 'Net Zero Import' has been set in this domain in the coming days. This will be an ambitious target, requiring coordinated action on multiple fronts such as taxation, incentives, economy of scale, and eliminating cost pitfalls. 8) IT Jobs The aim of this pillar is to train people in small towns and villages for IT sector jobs. 9) Early Harvest Program Under this, many schemes are being implemented in rural areas. There is a plan to provide basic facilities at village level through internet. In the early harvesting program, sending good wishes through the government forum, it has been made mandatory for the employees of all the central government offices to have biometric attendance.

Digital India is promoted by India so that corruption can be stopped.When everything is digital way then any one can see this and things are visible to all. We do not need to wait for more and task completed earlier.Even making transaction of money also visible in Various department offices etc.

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