Monday 19 September 2016

Digital India: PM Narendra Modi’s Vision

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India Week on July 1, 2015, as a part of Digital India initiative with a vision to empower the Indian population and to render better services to people from all walks of life. The event picked up well on the launch day itself, as the top players in the industry assured investments worth Rs. 4.5 lakh crore in different genres of technology, which will further add to 1.8 million jobs. AsiaOne magazine contributes immensely to several initiatives of Narendra Modi’s government through features and events.


The initiative is a perfect amalgamation of inviting both domestic and foreign companies to invest as well as guarantee to improve working style and system like bureaucracy and red-tape, which will definitely be a push to start-up enterprises.

“I dream of a Digital India where government proactively engages with people through social media … I dream of a Digital India where cyber security becomes an integral part of national security,” Modi said, reminding the audience of the speech given by Martin Luther King.

The PM looks up to this 1.13 lakh crore initiative as a way to create a digital infrastructure as a utility to all the citizens of India. He also aims to take digital literacy to another level. This will benefit the citizens of the country by not only opting for cashless financial transactions, but also to avail the services in real time from online to mobile.

Some of the ongoing projects under Digital India Initiative are as follows:

Digital locker system
MyGov.in
Swachh Bharat Mission
e-Sign framework
e-Hospital system
National Scholarship Portal
Broadband Highways

Some market players have already acted upon the digitization of the country. The Vedanta Group arm has recently signed an agreement with Ericsson to work together in driving Smart Sustainable City initiatives; and STL is undertaking Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployment to enable high-speed broadband connectivity, and is developing several transmission infrastructure projects spanning over 5,000 circuit km across the nation.

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