TOPIC FOR THE ECONOMICS PROJECT

DIGITAL INDIA
acknowledgement
certificate
list of content
 Introduction
 Vision of digital india
 Nine pillars of digital india
 Benefits of digital india
 Challenges
 Impact
 Highlights
 Student’s view
 Analysis of digital India
 conclusion
 bibliography

The government of India has taken a daunting initiative to launch and connect every rural area
with high speed internet. Apart from various initiative taken up by the government there are still
some challenges as follows :
  Lack of infrastructure : connecting every village with high speed
internet requires vital amount of investment and infrastructure . The
slow and delayed infrastructure in the country's and the availability of
low spectrum makes it difficult.
 Digital illiteracy: most of the citizen of India specially of rural areas
still does not have enough knowledge about internet and its uses . Full
fledged digitization is a team work and requires administration
changes and awareness campaigns backed by government especially in
rural areas.
 Administrative roadblocks: after so many efforts by the government
red tapeism is still prevalent in the country , specific clearance issue is
still faced by many companies , hence in order to remove regulatory
road block across all the state at reasonable price becomes important .
 Cyber Crime : is the major threat to the people of India since there are
less or no internet privacy laws , people usually get exposed to cyber
crimes.
 Net neutrality : making internet accessible to each and every citizen of
India , however the issue is still on the table.

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Introduction
Digital India is a programme to transform India into digital empowered society and knowledge
economy. The Digital India is transformational in nature and would ensure that Government services
are available to citizens electronically. It would also bring in public accountability through mandated
delivery of government’s services electronically, a Unique ID and e-Pramaan based on authentic and
standard based interoperable and integrated government applications and data basis. The
programme will be implemented in phases from the current year till 2018.

Vision of digital india

BJP Election Manifesto 2014 aimed to nurture a Digital India thereby making every household and every
individual digitally empowered..
The party aims to make every household digitally literate with a goal to make India the Global Knowledge
hub, with IT being a major driver and engine of growth.

The manifesto has a strong focus on e-Governance as BJP believes IT is a great enabler for
empowerment, equity and efficiency.The party is focusing on: broadbanding villages; participative
governance; digital learning; tele-medicine and mobile healthcare; open source and open standard; E-
Bhasha; and others.

Nine pillars of digital india

1. Broadband Highways

This pillar intends to cover in three sub categories. Thus it focuses on developing broadband
highways for rural, urban and infrastructure for national information.
Rural - The main motive of the broadband is to cater to 250 thousand village panchayats.
Urban - For the broadband for urban it includes the virtual networks Operators who would be
leveraged for service delivery. It is mandatory for new urban building to have communication
infrastructure as well.
National infrastructure- Networks like SWAN, NKN and NOFN would be integrated with the
national information Infrastructure. Along with that it will also have permission for horizontal
connectivity up to 100, 50, 20, 5 government offices. 
2. Universal connectivity with mobile phones

The prior motive is to focus on digging in deeply within the country. This will enable them to
reach to places where there is poor or no connectivity. Thus there will be better connectivity
across the country. Thus country is expected to have increased system infiltration & scope of
services.
3. Public Internet Access Program 

Public internet Access Program is subdivided into two components. Common Service Centres
and Post Offices been developed as multi centres.

 Common Service Centres - The increase of number in common service has been severe.
It is made reasonable, multifunctional end-focuses for administration conveyance. It aims to
expand the reach of Govt. administrations to all GPs

 A total of 150 thousand post offices are being considered to turn into multi service
Centres. This scheme would be implemented by the nodal department. This ought to be long
haul vision for POs
4. E-Governance – Reforming government through Technology

Government Business Process Re-designing utilizes IT to enhance exchanges. This activity

needs to be performed across the departments and ministries across the country. To help guide
the government through technology the following steps are important for transformation process.

 Electronic Databases- all the database should be converted from manual to electronic.

 Workflow computerization- the workflow across all the Indian agencies and departments
should be electronic and updated automatically. This will enable efficiency and visibility
across all the citizens of the country.

 Public Grievance Redressal – government and its departments should be capable of

analysing, automating and responding to data in case of problems that arrive persistently.
This will not only save time but also help in the process.

5. eKranti – Electronic conveyance of administrations

With already 31 projects of e-government Mission Mode, it is expected to add 10 more to e-

Kranti. This includes:

 Technology for Education – All the schools are expected to be connected through a
mutual network that is e-Education. Free Wi-Fi will be given to all schools including
primary schools. This will bring the literacy to next level.

 Technology for Health – this will cover consultation for everyone online. E-Healthcare
also includes ordering medicines online and viewing medical records over the internet.

 Technology for Planning- this Mission Mode project will be in line with the GIS based
decision. This will be used during project conceptualizing, planning and during the design
and development stage.

 Technology for Farmers- using technology, farmers will be able to generate real
information about their inputs and can even order online. Hey would even be advanced loan
and relief money would be transferred online.

 Technology for Security- in case of emergency services or disaster relief environment, it

will provide services to citizens and minimize the loss.

 Technology for Financial Inclusion- mobile banking, use of micro ATM and post offices
will be strengthened by use of technology.

 Technology for Justice- this will cover e-courts, e-jails, e-police and e-prosecution.
 Technology for Cyber Security- this centre caters to making a secure cyber space.

6. Information for All

The basic motive of this to provide the citizens of India with all the information they need. It also
makes communication with the government much easier than physically going to different
government departments to gather information.

 Online Hosting of Information & reports

 Government star effectively draws in through online networking. This will inform the
citizens about any new developments or news and vice versa.

 Online informing is about informing the citizens about special programs or occasions by
way of SMS or e-mails.

 All this will exhaust a huge amount of existing base which will also demand additional
resources.

7. Electronics Manufacturing – Target NET ZERO Imports

Electronics Marketing will require coordination from various fields.

 Target NET ZERO Imports is a striking exhibit of expectation

 Ambitious objective which obliges facilitated activity on numerous fronts

 Focused territories – Fab-less Design, VSATs, Smart Energy meters, micro ATM’s to
name a few.

8. IT for Jobs

This program calls for

 Training individuals in littler towns & towns for IT division occupations

 IT/ITES in NE

 Training Service Delivery Agents to run a suitable organizations conveying the IT

benefits
 Telecom administration suppliers to prepare rustic workforce to coddle their own
particular needs

9. Early Harvest Programs

 IT stage for messages will cover Government employees and representatives across the
country.

 Government Greetings to be e-Greetings are been made available in different designs and
styles.

 Biometric attendance will cover all the offices of central government of India in Delhi.

Digital India is a dream of the government of India to have transparency between the
government and its citizens. Digital marketing company in Hyderabad also strongly believes in
digitalization. Along with digital payments, government is making a point for everyone to have a
bank account and mobile number. This will be linked to Aadhaar card, making transactions
easier. Salary, loan payment will be made in minutes without having to wait. E-governance is
also another initiative which will help you generate birth c1ertificate, death certificate
immediately. These are few initiative that government of India has taken for the development of
the country.

Benefits of digital india

 Infrastructure as a utility to each citizen

 High-speed internet will be made available in all the gram

panchayats
  Mobile and Bank account would allow participation in digital and
financial space at an individual level
 Access to the public service center within their locality will be made
easy
  Shareable private space on a public cloud
 Safe and reliable cyberspace in the country.

2. Governance and services on demand

 Single window access to each and every person by integrating

departments or jurisdictions
  Availability of government services in mobile and online platforms 
  Government services to be digitally converted for improving ease
of making business

3. Digital Empowerment of citizens

 Universal digital literacy

 All digital resources globally available
 All government documents to be accessible on the Cloud
  Availability of digital resources in all Indian languages
 Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance

4. Removal of the black economy

 All the online transaction can be observed on a regular basis easily

 Each payment made by a customer to any merchant will be
registered
 No illegal transactions
 Impossible for people to hide their money

5. Increase in Revenue

 Monitoring the sales and taxes has become much more

comfortable
 Customers get a bill for every purchase that they make
 Merchants cannot escape from paying tax to the government
 Growth of the overall economic status of the country.

6. Empowerment to the people

 The government can transfer the subsidies to the Aadhaar-linked

bank accounts of people directly
  People do not have to wait to receive the incentives that they are
bound to obtain from the government

7. Paves the way to E-governance

 E-governance is a huge bonus point for all the citizens

 Quicker and safer when compared to traditional governance
  You can now receive anything from your birth certificate to death
certificate immediately
 Useful for people to access the information they need on the go

 The National e-Governance Plan is an initiative to make all

government services possible to India’s citizens through electronic
media.

8. Creation of new jobs

With the initiative of Digital India, there have been various ways to
enhance job opportunities in new markets and to increase employment
opportunities in current markets.

Digital India registration eligibility

 Should be a citizen of India

 Must process the computer knowledge test
 Aadhar card process
 Aadhar card has to be linked with your bank account
 Must possess a personal laptop or computer with internet access

Challenges

The government of India has taken a daunting initiative to launch and connect every rural area
with high speed internet. Apart from various initiative taken up by the government there are still
some challenges as follows :

 Lack of infrastructure : connecting every village with high speed

internet requires vital amount of investment and infrastructure . The
slow and delayed infrastructure in the country's and the availability of
low spectrum makes it difficult.
 Digital illiteracy: most of the citizen of India specially of rural areas
still does not have enough knowledge about internet and its uses . Full
 fledged digitization is a team work and requires administration changes
and awareness campaigns backed by government especially in rural
areas.
 Administrative roadblocks: after so many efforts by the government red
tapeism is still prevalent in the country , specific clearance issue is still
faced by many companies , hence in order to remove regulatory road
block across all the state at reasonable price becomes important .
 Cyber Crime : is the major threat to the people of India since there are
less or no internet privacy laws , people usually get exposed to cyber
crimes.
 Net neutrality : making internet accessible to each and every citizen of
India , however the issue is still on the table.

Impact
Social impact
Assessing the impact of digitization on societies is complicated because there
are no universal metrics that act as a barometer of societal advancement.
Studies often tend to look at the level of inequality in a society but in emerging
economies that are in the process of elevating millions from poverty, a complex
relationship between economic growth and inequality remains. Therefore we
analyzed societal impact on two levels: the level of quality of life in a society and
the equality of access to basic services that a society requires

Economic impact .
Digitalisation has been one of the most important trends
in India over the past few years. It has emerged as the second-fastest
digital adopter among seventeen major digital economies. This rapid
growth helps propel India to the forefront of digital and technological
innovation, particularly leveraging the energies of the country’s young
population. Since the launch of the “Digital India” program in 2015 to
date, there have been many significant improvements in digital
infrastructure, in the digital delivery of public services and financial
succor to citizens, and in enhancing digital consciousness and literacy.

Highlights
Digital Locker: It is aimed at minimizing the usage of physical documents and enabling sharing
of e-documents across agencies and individuals. Hassle-free registration can be done for SIM
cards, LPG connections and driving licenses. It will speed up issuance of certificates such as
birth, marriage and domicile. One can store and share important documents such as PAN cards,
passports and educational certificates.
National Scholarship Portal: National Scholarships Portal is one-stop solution through which
various services starting from student application, application receipt, processing, sanction and
disbursal of various scholarships to Students are enabled.
eHospital: It is an integrated Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) which now runs
in almost 30 major public hospitals across the Country, including premier institutions such as
AIIMS and RML in Delhi and NIMHANS in Bangalore. Citizens can avail of online services
such as registration and appointment, pay fees, view diagnostic reports and check blood
availability.

Student’s view
Digital India can be a great step for the educational sector as it can completely transform India into a digitally
empowered society. The Prime Minister has introduced initiatives for remote places where well-trained
teachers might not be present in person.

● These initiatives are e-education, e-basta, Nand Ghar and will provide education through technology using
smartphones and mobile apps.

● E-basta aims at providing proper study materials and school books in a digital form as e-books to children
and will be accessible through the internet on tablets or mobile phones.

● A way to increase education among children is by delivering education through a digital medium in
government schools and pre-schools.

● E-basta aims at providing proper study materials and school books in a digital form as e-books to children
and will be accessible through the internet on tablets or mobile phones.

Analysis of digital India

200000 Common Service Centers (to provide public internet accessibility in
remote areas with poor connectivity) had employed over 500000 youth by
then. The 2018-19 Budget doubled the allocation on the Digital India
program to 3073 Cr. ... India was ranked 20th in Mobile Data Speed with an
average speed of 0.99 mbps

Conclusion
In conclusion, digital age had so much impact on the
social, economic and political life of the societies
today because it has brought so much changes in our daily
aspects of life and also helps us to improve and reshape our
environment with the aid of practical, experimental and
scientific knowledge or technology..

BIBLOGRAPHY

https://www.digitalindia.gov.in

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