Digital India

Digital India-Dream India (November 2014)

Marushi Sharma, Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College Ghaziabad

ABSTRACT— Digital India is an initiative taken by the Indian government on 20th August 2014.This Programme fleshes out the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Vision which was articulated during his Independence Day Speech, to use technology to enhance governance. As per the programme in press information’s website Digital India is equivalent to the Umbrella Programme.It aims to synthesize the existing government schemes by moving them from manual processes into the electronic processes. The 'Digital India Project' would transform the country in terms of digitally empowering every citizen with broadband connectivity and national optical fibre network. This paper reviews the Digital India Project and outlines the vision of programme and current growth state of India digitally too. It presents the efforts will be done to reach the target by 2019.

* INTRODUCTION

Digital India is a Programme to prepare India for a knowledge future. The focus is on being transformative – to realize IT + IT = IT. The focus is on making technology central to enabling change. It is an Umbrella Programme – covering many departments. It weaves together 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. Each individual element stands on its own. But is also part of the larger picture. It is coordinated by Deity(Department of electronics and information technology), implemented by the entire government. The weaving together makes the Mission transformative in totality. The Programme: Pulls together many existing schemes. These schemes will be restructured and re-focused. They will be implemented in a synchronized manner.Many elements are only process improvements with minimal cost.The common branding of programmes as Digital India highlights their transformative impact. The...