Six Years of Digital India Digital India

 

Six Years of Digital India Digital India was envisaged as an umbrella scheme that covered many aspects of making India a digital-first society.

The initial outlay was 100,000 crore in ongoing schemes and 13,000 crore in new schemes.

 The progress of Digital India is as under: Broadband Connectivity 156,000 of the target of 250,000 village panchayats have been connected with broadband Cabinet has approved public private partnership mode for the roll-out of BharatNet project for broadband services in villages. 

PM  Modi has set a target of connecting 600,000 villages via broadband by May 2023. Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity Reliance Jio's entry in 2016 helped drive the adoption of digital content and services by rationalising mobile data costs.

Total Internet subscribers in India in January-June 2020 were 749-07 million. Public Internet Access Aim to set up 250,000 common service centres, or one CSC in each gram panchayat Over 400,000 CSCs operational.

e-Governance DigiLocker : 66-37 million registered users, 4-32 billion issued authentic documents. Pandemic sped up digital services use. UMANG app (aggregates major govt services): 1,219 central & state govt services, 1,679.1 million department transactions, 253 departments integrated.

 Electronics Manufacturing India imported electronic components of Rs 1-15 trillion in FY20, 37% came from China India's PLI schemes, launched last year, aim to cut some of this. IT for Jobs India BPO Promotion Scheme has generated direct jobs for more than 40,000 people residing in tier II and III cities.

38% of these are women India IT industry added 138,000 people in FY21. Direct Transfer (Digital Transactions) Under PM KISAN Samman Nidhi 1.35 lakh crore has been deposited directly into the bank accounts of more than 10 crore farmers. 

Around 17 lakh crore has been transferred to the bank accounts of beneficiaries under various schemes. I

Innovative Initiatives One Nation One Ration Card One Nation One MSP DIKSHA E-NAM E-Snajeevani solution for telemedicine DigiBunai Aarogya Setu COWIN APP.