The Government of India's entity Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL) which executes the BharatNet
project is the custodian of Digital India (DI) project.
New Digital Services
Some of the facilities which will be provided through this initiative are Bharat net, digital locker,
e-education, e-health, e-sign, e-shopping and national scholarship portal. As part of Digital
India, Indian Government planned to launch Botnet cleaning centers.
National e-Governance Plan aimed at bringing all the front-end government services online.
MyGov.in is a platform to share inputs and ideas on matters of policy and governance. It is
a platform for citizen engagement in governance, through a "Discuss", "Do" and "Disseminate"
approach.
UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) is a Government of India all-in-one
single unified secure multi-channel multi-platform multi-lingual multi-service freeware mobile
app for accessing over 1,200 central and state government services in multiple Indian languages
over Android, iOS, Windows and USSD (feature phone) devices, including services such as AADHAAR,
DigiLocker, Bharat Bill Payment System, PAN, EPFO services, PMKVY services, AICTE, CBSE, tax and
fee or utilities bills payments, education, job search, tax, business, health, agriculture,
travel, Indian railway tickets bookings, birth certificates, e-District, e-Panchayat, police
clearance, passport, other utility services from private companies and much more.
eSign framework allows citizens to digitally sign a document online using Aadhaar
authentication.
Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Mobile app is being used by people and Government organisations for
achieving the goals of Swachh Bharat Mission.
eHospital application provides important services such as online registration, payment of fees
and appointment, online diagnostic reports, enquiring availability of blood online, etc.
Digital attendance: attendance.gov.in was launched by PM Narendra Modi on 1 July 2015, to
keep a record of the attendance of government employees on a real-time basis. This
initiative started with implementation of a common Biometric Attendance System (BAS) in the
central government offices located in Delhi.
Back-end digitisation
Black money eradication: The 2016, Union budget of India announced 11 technology initiatives
including the use of data analytics to nab tax evaders, creating a substantial opportunity for
IT companies to build out the systems that will be required. Digital Literacy mission will
cover six crore rural households. It is planned to connect 550 farmer markets in the country
through the use of technology.
Facilities to digitally empower citizens
Digital Locker facility will help citizens to digitally store their important documents like PAN
card, passport, mark sheets and degree certificates. Digital Locker will provide secure access
to
Government-issued documents. It uses authenticity services provided by Aadhaar. It is aimed at
eliminating the use of physical documents and enables the sharing of verified electronic
documents
across government agencies. Three key stakeholders of DigiLocker are Citizen, Issuer and
requester.
BPO and job growth: The government is planning to create 28,000 seats of BPOs in various states
and
set up at least one Common Service Centre in each of the gram panchayats in the state.
e-Sampark Vernacular email service: Out of 10% English speaking Indians, only 2% reside in rural
areas. Rest everyone depends on their vernacular language for all living their lives. However,
as of
now, email addresses can only be created in the English language. To connect rural India with
Digital India, the Government of India impelled email services provider giants
including Gmail,
office, and Rediff to provide the email address in regional languages. The email provider
companies
have shown positive sign and is working in the same process. An Indian-based company, Data
Xgen
Technologies Pvt Ltd, has launched world's first free linguistic email address under the name
‘DATAMAIL’ which allows creating email ids in 8 Indian languages, English; and three foreign
languages – Arabic, Russian and Chinese. Over the period of time, the email service in 22
languages
will be offered by Data XGen Technologies.
Training
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan is being executed by PMGDisha with an outlay of Rs
2,351.38 crore with the objective of making 6 crore rural households digitally literate by March
2020. Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (abbreviated as PMGDisha) is an
initiative under Digital India program, approved by The Union Cabinet chaired by the PM
Narendra
Modi. The main objective of the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan is to make 6 crore
people in rural areas across India digitally literate, reaching around 40% of rural households by covering
one member from every eligible household.
