Digital India is a campaign
launched by the Government of India on 1st of July, 2015 in order to transform India into a complete digital
country. It is an initiative planned to digitally empower Indian society by
integrating the government departments and leading companies (national or
international level). The main purpose of digitizing this country is to make
available all the government services at easy reach to the citizens of India.
There are three key
vision areas of
this program which are:
- Digital infrastructure all
through the country is like a utility to the Indian people as it will make
available high speed internet delivering all the government services with
ease and fast. It will provide lifelong, unique, online and authenticable
digital identity to the citizens. It will make easy access to any online
services like handling bank account, financial management, safe and secure
cyber-space, education, distance learning, etc.
- High demand of good
governance and online services will make available all the services in
real time through digitization. Digitally transformed services will also
promote people for doing online business by making financial transactions
easy, electronic and cashless.
- Digital empowerment of
Indian people will really make possible of digital literacy through
universally accessible digital resources. It will enable people to submit
required documents or certificates online and not physically in the
schools, colleges, offices or any organization.
Digital India program has been
implemented by the government of India to ensure following aims of this initiatives:
- To ensure the broadband
highways.
- To ensure the universal
access to mobile phones.
- To facilitate people with
high speed internet.
- To bring e-Governance by
reforming government through digitization.
- To bring e-Kranti through
electronic delivery of services.
- To make available online
information for all.
- To ensure more IT jobs.
Digitization was the need to be
implemented in India for bright future and grow more than any other developed
country. Following are the benefits of digital India campaign:
- It makes possible the
implementation of digital locker system which in turn reduces paper work
by minimizing the usage of physical documents as well as enabling
e-sharing through registered repositories.
- It is an effective online
platform which may engage people in governance through various approaches
like “Discuss, Do and Disseminate”.
- It ensures the achievement
of various online goals set by the government.
- It makes possible for people
to submit their documents and certificates online anywhere which reduces
physical work.
- Through e-Sign framework citizens
may digitally sign their documents online.
- It may ease the important
health care services through e-Hospital system such as online
registration, taking doctor appointments, fee payment, online diagnostic
tests, blood check-up, etc.
- It provides benefits to the
beneficiaries through National Scholarship Portal by allowing submission
of application, verification process, sanction and then disbursal.
- It is a big platform which
facilitates an efficient delivery of government or private services all
over the country to its citizens.
- Bharat Net program (a
high-speed digital highway) will connect almost 250,000 gram panchayats of
country.
- There is a plan of
outsourcing policy also to help in the digital India initiative.
- For better management of
online services on mobile such as voice, data, multimedia, etc, BSNL’s
Next Generation Network will replace 30-year old telephone exchange.
- National Centre for Flexible
Electronics will help in the promotion of flexible electronics.
- Large scale deployment of
Wi-Fi hotspots has been planned by the BSNL all across the country.
- There is a Broadband Highways in order to handle all the connectivity related issues.open access of broadband highways in all the cities , towns and villages will make possible the availability of world-class services on the click of mouse.
