Yesterday, Prime Minister of India, Narender Modi had
interaction with numerous IT magnates of United States such as Facebook, Google
and many more. He deliberated his vision of digital India and flourished to persuade
these world leaders of information technology to contribute to fulfil his
vision of digital India.
Suddenly, in evening the founder of Facebook Mark
Zuckerberg changed his Facebook profile picture to a new one in which tricolour
of Indian flag was part of it. He did this in support of digital India, which
implies a direct support from the one of the most efficacious IT giant. In his
support, Prime Minister Narender Modi also changed his profile pic with the new
picture of tricolour in it.
Raul Sodat Najwa in support of Digital India |
In middle of all these events, I sustained to perform like
an untaught and completely unacquainted about digital India. My prying led me
to the probe and lots and lots of reading to find about digital India.
Digital India
Programme. It is a flagship programme initiated by government of India
to transmute the Indian society in digitally empowered and knowledge economy.
1.
E-Governance in India was introduced in mid 90s.
2.
Initial emphasis was on citizen centred
services.
3.
If you think congress government did not
contribute then you are wrong. In the year 2006, National e-Governance Plan was
launched.
4.
Modi’s government is trying to make the desired
impact on the society and achieve the pervious laid down objectives which have
not been met by previous governments.
5.
The objective is to cover and encourage
electronic services, various products, and new devices and generate job
opportunities through digital India programme.
6.
It will not be limited to the metro cities or
smaller towns but the vision is to stretch it till the rural India.
VISION: Vision
is laid down on three pillars as explained below.
Crisply summarising and practically explaining, the emphasis
is on following.
1.
High speed internet.
2.
Mobile and Internet banking to reach rural
India.
3.
Services to be available online
4.
Educating citizens about effectively using the
digital media.
5.
Generating job opportunities.
6.
Secure Cyber Space
7.
Generation of citizen cloud on which data
sharing and data storage will be possible.
To achieve the above objectives and bring the vision into
reality, government is going to give required to leverage and also encourage
digital industries. Suitable environment will be created for the IT industry to
contribute in fulfilling the vision. This means huge expansion of digital
industry in India as the government is ensuring the reach and consumers of
digital media will increase in next ten years.
It is a revolution in India and trust me; don’t lose the
chance to be part of this revolution. Contribute in the any possible way as you
can.
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