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Do You Really Know What is Digital India???

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.


Also check out the official website of Indian Government concerned with Digital India for more details www.digitalindia.gov.in
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