Dr. Jyoti Sharma
Digital India is an initiative by Government of India to make sure that all Government work go online which will help citizens to avail benefits and get their work done easily and transparently. It will also help in reducing paper work. It will help in reducing corruption if implemented on whole. It will help in getting things done quickly.
It will help in reducing paper work. Some of the facilities which will be provided through this dream initiative are Digital Locker, e-education, e-health, e-sign and national scholarship portal. Connecting every Indian on a common platform will finally create one country. Each Indian will be able to talk to another Indian somewhere, create groups on a common platform, at low cost synchronously and asynchronously
Vision of Digital India
These are some of the facts about Digital India Initiative, a dream programme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Government of India. A lot of Industrialist have pledged to launch multiple project to support this initiative by investing around One lakh crore Rupees. Some of them are Reliance Industries, Reliance Telecom, Tata, Wipro, Birla, Bharti Airtel.That initative will generates lots of investment in the country which automatically generate employment opportunities in the whole country.
With the launch of Digital India programme, the Government is taking a big step forward to transform the country into a digitally empowered knowledge economy. Includes various schemes worth over Rs. 1 lakh crore like Digital Locker, e-education, e-health, e-sign and national scholarship portal. The programme includes projects that aim to ensure that Government services are available to citizens electronically and people get benefit of the latest information and communication technology. The Ministry of Communications and IT is the nodal agency to implement the programme. It will keep liaison with the IT and Communication Departments of all the State Government for overall success of the vision.
As citizens we can do the following to make the Digital India project a success:
* Educate people around us about the initiative so that more and more people come forward and participate in it. People must be made aware that they need not stand in queues for hours in front of Government offices when most of the Government services can be carried out with the click of a button. Farmers need to be encouraged to seek help from experts through various mobile-enabled services like mKisan. Citizens need to be told about how immensely the RTI has empowered them. One can seek any information from the government just by filling up a form online and paying a nominal fee of ?10/- (RTI Online). This can help in promoting transparency at the grass-root levels.
* Provide feedback to the government wherever possible so that the Government may continually bring the necessary changes in its service delivery mechanism.
* Put more and more Government services onto the web.
In nut shell, the success of the programme will depend on the benefits accrued to people when it rolls out. If India is able to usher in a digital revolution, it will not just improve the lives of its billion-plus people whose ancestors laid the foundations of many great civilizations, but it will also benefit the world at large. The task is huge; the challenges are many. But, we also know that we will not reach new destinations without taking new roads. Much of India that we dream of is yet to be built.
(The author is Assistant Director P&DD)
feedbackexcelsior@gmail.com
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel