Digital India Week
Digital India Week
Several initiatives have been
taken for introduction of Information Technology to empower people. Some
of the initiatives have resulted in development of products to extend various
services in areas relating to health, education, labour and employment, commerce
etc. The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi would launch the Digital
India Week this evening urging people to gain knowledge and to empower
themselves through the Digital India
Programme of his Government.
Digital
India has been envisioned as an ambitious umbrella programme to transform India
into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. It comprises of
various initiatives under the single programme each targeted to prepare India
for becoming a knowledge economy and for bringing good governance to citizens
through synchronized and co-ordinated engagement of the entire
Government.
This
programme has been envisaged and coordinated by the Department of Electronics
and Information Technology (DeitY) in collaboration with various Central
Ministries/Departments and State Governments. The Prime Minister as the
Chairman of Monitoring Committee on Digital India, activities under the Digital India initiative
is being carefully monitored. All the existing and ongoing e-Governance
initiatives have been revamped to align them with the principles of Digital
India.
The vision of Digital India programme also aims at
inclusive growth in areas of electronic services, products, manufacturing and
job opportunities etc. The vision of Digital India is centred on three key
areas -
(i) Digital
Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen
(ii) Governance
& Services on Demand and
(iii) Digital
Empowerment of Citizens
With
the above vision, the Digital India programme aims to provide Broadband
Highways, Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity, Public Internet Access
Programme, E-Governance: Reforming Government through Technology, eKranti
- Electronic Delivery of Services, Information for All, Electronics
Manufacturing: Target Net Zero Imports, IT for Jobs and Early
Harvest Programmes. Several projects/products have already launched or
ready to be launched as indicated below:
· Digital Locker System aims to minimize the usage of
physical documents and enable sharing of e-documents across agencies. The
sharing of the e-documents will be done through registered repositories thereby
ensuring the authenticity of the documents online.
· MyGov.in
has been implemented as a platform for citizen engagement in governance,
through a “Discuss”, “Do” and “Disseminate” approach. The mobile App for
MyGov would bring these features to users on a mobile phone.
· Swachh
Bharat Mission (SBM) Mobile app would be used by people and
Government organizations for achieving the goals of Swachh Bharat Mission.
· eSign
framework would allow citizens to digitally sign a document online using
Aadhaar authentication.
· The Online Registration System (ORS)
under the eHospital application has been introduced. This
application provides important services such
as online registration, payment of fees and appointment, online
diagnostic reports, enquiring availability of blood online etc.
· National Scholarships Portal is a
one stop solution for end to end scholarship process right from submission of
student application, verification, sanction and disbursal to end beneficiary
for all the scholarships provided by the Government of India.
· DeitY has undertaken an initiative namely
Digitize India Platform (DIP) for large scale digitization of records in the
country that would facilitate efficient delivery of services to the citizens.
· The Government of India has undertaken an
initiative namely Bharat Net, a high speed digital highway to connect all 2.5
lakh Gram Panchayats of country. This would be the world’s largest rural
broadband connectivity project using optical fibre.
· BSNL has introduced Next Generation
Network (NGN), to replace 30 year old exchanges, which is an IP based
technology to manage all types of services like voice, data, multimedia/ video
and other types of packet switched communication services.
· BSNL has undertaken large scale
deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country. The user can latch on the
BSNL Wi-Fi network through their mobile devices.
· To deliver citizen services
electronically and improve the way citizens and authorities transact with each
other, it is imperative to have ubiquitous connectivity. The government also
realises this need as reflected by including ‘broadband
highways’ as one of the pillars of Digital India. While
connectivity is one criterion, enabling and providing technologies to
facilitate delivery of services to citizens forms the other.
Policy initiatives have also been undertaken by
DeitY in the e- Governance domain like e-Kranti Framework, Policy on Adoption
of Open Source Software for Government of India, Framework for Adoption of Open
Source Software in e-Governance Systems, Policy on Open Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs) for Government of India, E-mail Policy of Government of
India, Policy on Use of IT Resources of Government of India, Policy on
Collaborative Application Development by Opening the Source Code of Government
Applications, Application Development & Re-Engineering Guidelines for Cloud
Ready Applications
· BPO Policy has been approved to create
BPO centres in different North Eastern states and also in smaller / mofussil
towns of other states.
· Electronics Development Fund (EDF)
Policy aims to promote Innovation, R&D, and Product Development
and to create a resource pool of IP within the country to create a
self-sustaining eco-system of Venture Funds.
· National Centre for Flexible Electronics
(NCFlexE) is an initiative of Government of India to promote research and
innovation in the emerging area of Flexible Electronics.
· Centre of Excellence on Internet on Things
(IoT) is a joint initiative of Department of Electronics & Information
Technology (DeitY), ERNET and NASSCOM.
The
estimated impact of Digital India by 2019 would be cross cutting, ranging
from broadband connectivity in all Panchayats, Wi-fi in schools and
universities and Public Wi-Fihotspots. The programme will generate huge number
of IT, Telecom and Electronics jobs, both directly and indirectly. Success of
this programme will make India Digitally empowered and the leader in usage of
IT in delivery of services related to various domains such as health,
education, agriculture, banking, etc.
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