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These include:
The creation of digital infrastructure
Delivering services digitally
Digital literacy
A two-way platform will be created where both the service providers and the
consumers stand to benefit. The scheme will be monitored and controlled by the
Digital India Advisory group which will be chaired by the
Ministry of Communications and IT.It will be an inter-Ministerial initiative where
all ministries and departments shall offer their own services to the public
Healthcare ,Education ,Judicialservices etc. ThePublicprivate partnership
model shall be adopted selectively. In addition, there are plans to restructure
theNational Informatics Centre . This project is one among the top priority
projects of the Modi Administration.
Project
Broadband in 2.5 lakh villages, universal phone connectivity,
Net Zero Imports by 2020, 400,000 Public Internet Access
Points, Wi-fi in 2.5 lakh schools, all universities; Public wi-fi
hotspots for citizens, Digital Inclusion: 1.7 Cr trained for IT,
Telecom and Electronics Jobs Job creation: Direct 1.7 Cr. and
Indirect at least 8.5 Cr.e-Governance & eServices: Across
government India to be leader in IT use in services health,
education, banking Digitally empowered citizens public
cloud, internet access. The Government of India entity
Bharat Broadband Network Limitedwhich executes the
National Optical Fibre Networkproject will be the custodian
ofDigital India(DI) project.BBNL had ordered
United Telecoms Limitedto connect 250,000 villages through
GPON to ensure FTTH based broadband. This will provide the
first basic setup to achieve towards Digital India and is
expected to be completed by 2017. Optical fibre cables have
been laid out in more than 68000 village panchayats.
There
Pillars
Services
Partnerships
Digital India Week
At the launch ceremony of Digital India Week by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, top CEOs from
India and abroad committed to invest4.5lakhcrore(US$68billion) towards this initiative.
The CEOs said the investments would be utilitized towards making smartphones and internet
devices at an affordable price in India which would help generate jobs in India as well as
reduce the cost of importing them from abroad.
Reliance IndustriesChairmanMukesh Ambanisaid his company would invest2.5lakhcrore
(US$38billion) across different Digital India heads, which have the potential to create
employment for over five lakh people. He also announced setting up of the 'Jio Digital India
Start Up Fund' to encourage young entrepreneurs who are setting up businesses focused
around the Digital India initiative.Bharti GroupchiefSunil Mittalcommitted investments of
more than1lakhcrore(US$15billion) in the next five years to create deeper infrastructure
in rural and urban India in the areas ofe-healthand e-education.
Silicon Valley
Tech Giants fromSilicon Valley,San Jose,Californiaexpressed their support for Digital India
duringPMNarendra Modi's visit in September 2015.Facebook's CEO,Mark Zuckerberg,
changed his DP in support of Digital India and started a chain on Facebook and promised to
work on WiFi Hotspots in rural India.Googlecommitted to provide broadband connectivity on
500 railway stations inIndia.Microsoftagreed to provide broadband connectivity to five
hundred thousand villages in India and make India its cloud hub through Indian data centres.
Qualcommannounced an investment of $150 million in Indian startups.Oracle plans to invest
in 20 states and will work on payments andSmart cityinitiatives.
Objectives
This campaign aims to accomplish the vision of a 'Clean India' by 2 October
2019, the 150th birthday ofMahatma Gandhi .
Specific objectives are:
Elimination ofopen defecation
Conversion of unsanitarytoiletsto pour flush toilets (a type ofpit latrine,
usually connected to two pits)
Eradication ofmanual scavenging
100% collection and processing/disposal/reuse/recycling of municipal solid
waste
Abehavioural changein people regarding healthysanitationpractices
Generation of awareness among citizens aboutsanitationand its linkages
withpublic health
Supporting urban local bodies in designing, executing and operating waste
disposal systems
Facilitating private-sector participation in capital expenditure and
operation and maintenance costs for sanitary facilities.
Aadhaar
Aadhaar , which meansfoundation,is a unique 12-digit Identification number issued
to individuals for the purpose of establishing unique identification of every single
person. Its purpose is to eliminate the fake identities and documents from the government
records.Aadhaar Card serves as an Address Proof and an identity proof, especially for
those who do not have a passport or a driving license.As many as 76.83 crore Aadhaar
numbers,out of a total population of 121.01 crore (Census 2011), have been generated as on
February 15,2015 and about Rs 5,512.18 crore has been spent until January 2015 on the
project.The government has approved an outlay of Rs 13,663.22 crore for the period 2009-17.
In Aadhaar uniqueness is determined through the biometric (fingerprints, iris scan, photograph)
and demographic (residential address) details of the individuals.
Any resident of India including infants can enrol for Aadhaar. Even NRIs and foreign citizens
residing in India can also enrol for Aadhaar.
Aadhaar is not a card or a smart card rather it is a number which is unique for every beneficiary
of it.
No fee will be charged at any stage under this scheme
Aadhaar number will remain valid for life.
Aadhaar number will help you provide access to services like banking, mobile phone
connections and other Govt and Non-Govt services in due course.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is the regulatory body on the behalf of
government.
LPG Subsidy Government has started the PAHAL Scheme under which the subsidy
amount of LPG cylinder is directly transferred into the Aadhaar number linked bank account
of the consumer.Well one can avail LPG Subsidy without Aadhar also.
Passport: Aadhar card is necessary for issuance of new Passport.The Ministry of External
Affairs (MEA) will now be using Aadhar Card for identification of the applicant and on the
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) database for validation of ones criminal
antecedents.If you have an Aadhaar card, you can get passport in just 10 days.
Under this format, police verification will be done at a later date as opposed to the previous
rule requiring police verification which used to be time consuming.
Buying new vehicle and Driving License Andhra Pradesh government madeAadhaar
card mandatory for registering new vehicles and obtaining driving licence. It has also
decided to link all existing vehicle owners and driving licence holders with Aadhaar number.
Bank Account:The guinessworld record holderschemePradhan Mantri Jan Dhan
Yojana(PMJDY) accepts Aadhaar card/number as the only document sufficient to open the
bank account.
Voter Card Linking: Starting 9th March 2015, Aadhaar card UIDAI number would be linked
to the voter IDs. This will eliminate bogus voters.The deadline for linking Aadhaar with
voter ID card is Aug 2015.By May, the Southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka, Kerala and Goa will complete the linking.