Digital India Mission
The Digital India mission scheme has been launched by the Government of India for offering high-speed internet connections in rural areas. The Digital India Mission was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in JULY 01,2015. It is beneficiary schemes for already existing schemes like Make in India, Bharatmala, Sagarmala, Start-up India, and Stand-up India.
- Focussed areas Digital India Mission Scheme:
- Providing digital infrastructure facilities as a source of utility for each of the citizen
- Governance and services on demand.
- Looking after digital improvement for each of the citizens of India
Digital India was created with a vision of making inclusive growth in areas of products, manufacturing, electronic services, and job opportunities.
The objective of the Digital India Mission
The main objective of the Digital India Mission is ‘Power to Empower. The three core components of Digital India Initiatives are digital delivery of services, digital infrastructure creation, and digital literacy. Read here about the objectives in detail:
- Offering high-speed internet in all gram panchayats
- Easy accessing to Common Service Centre in all the locality
- The digital India initiative is the combination of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal.
The Digital India Programme also focuses on restructuring many existing schemes that can be implemented in a synchronized manner.
There are major nine pillars of Digital India that are mentioned in the table below:
| Broadband highways | Universal access to mobile connectivity | Public internet access program |
| e-governance | e-Kranti | Information for all |
| Electronic manufacturing | IT for jobs | Early harvest programmes |
Benefits of Digital India Mission scheme
- The Digital India Scheme made it possible to link 12000 post offices of rural areas electronically.
- This scheme increases the electronic transactions concerned with e-governance.
- In almost 1.15 Lakh Gram Panchayats, an optical fiber network of Rs 2, 74,246 Km has been connected under Bharat Net Programme.
- A Common Service Center has been operative under the National e-governance project of the Indian government that provides access to information and communication technology. Through computer and Internet access, the CSCs are creating multimedia content on various matters like e-governance, health, education, entertainment, telemedicine, and other government and private services.
- The digital village area was created with well-equipped facilities like solar lighting, LED assembly unit, sanitary napkin production unit, and Wi-Fi couple.
- Internet data is a major tool for making the delivery of services and the urban internet penetration. It has reached 64% almost.
- Presently, the number of daily active internet users has crossed 300 million from 10-15 million daily users.
Challenges of Digital India scheme
- The daily basis Internet speed and Wi-Fi hotspots speed are slow as compared to the developed countries.
- The small and medium scale industries are struggling a lot in adapting new modern technology.
- Limited capability of entry-level smartphones for smooth internet access.
- Lack of skilled manpower in the field of digital technology.
- To look for about one million cybersecurity experts to check and monitor the growing menace of digital crime.
