The Presentation covers knowledge on Pillars of digital India.

1. UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL INDIA
A programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and
knowledge economy
Presented by Vinod Kudre
Faculty, Department of Business Administration
Dhanwate National College, Nagpur
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2. What is Digital India?
 Digital India is a Flagship Programme with a vision to prepare India to transform
digitally.
 The focus is on being transformative – to realize IT + IT = IT.
 The motive is to transform the entire ecosystem of public services through the use of
Information technology .
 The focus is on making technology central to enabling change.
 It is It is an Umbrella programme – covering many department.
 It weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single,
comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal.
 Each individual element stands on its own. But is also part of the larger picture.
 It is coordinated by deity, implemented by the entire government – both at the centre
and state.
 These schemes will be restructured and re-focused & will be implemented in a
synchronized manner.
 Many elements are only process improvements with minimal cost.
 The Common branding of programmes as digital India highlights their
transformative impact.

3. Vision of Digital India
Infrastructure
Governance
Empowerment
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4. Nine Pillars of Digital India
1. Broadband
Highways
2. Universal Access
to Mobile
Connectivity
3. Public Internet
Access Programme
4. E-Governance –
Reforming government
through Technology
5. E- Kranti –
Electronic delivery of
services
6. Information for All
7. Electronics
Manufacturing –
Target NET ZERO
Imports
8. IT for Jobs
9. Early Harvest
Programmes
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5. Pillar 1. Broadband Highways
Broadband
for all
Rural
1yr: 50,000 GP
2yr: 100,000 GP
3yr: 100,000 GP
• Coverage: 250,000 GP
• Timeline: December 2016
• CAPEX: Rs 32,000 Cr
• Nodal Dept: DoT
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6. Progress so far..
 Department of Telecommunications Dot a part of Ministry of telecommunications & Information
Technology) is leading in development of this area.
 Ravi Shankar Prasad (Union Telecom Minister) is the role player for this Pillar’s development.
 1,40,000 Optic Fibre Pipe line is installed and 11,50,000 Optic Fibre is installed.
 Devendra Fadnavis (Maharashtra CM) launched the first step in Maharashtra by setting up 5
Gram Panchayats into Digital village in Nagpur district on the occasion of labour day .
 The villages are Khandala ( Taluka-Mouda .) Tarodi (BU) (Taluka- Kamptee), Khasala (Taluka-
Kamptee), Dabha (Taluka- Vihirgaon (Taluka-Nagpur Road)
 The GP will receive a speed of 4 mbps with efficient wi-fi for e-education, e-health, e- agriculture.
 776 GPs are connected till date in Maharashtra & 28,000 GP will be connceted in 3 years.
 Virtual Mobile operating network is set up for sharing Bandwidth and wi-fi spot .
 AP Govt has signed a MOU with CISCO & Launched 15Mbps Broadband at Rs. 149, 100Mbps to
Offices at Rs. 999. It is the 1st state wide broadband project “AP Fiber Net”.
 Target till April -Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram & rest of State to be covered end
of July of this year for which innovattion centre is set up in Vishakhapatnam
 All village Panchayats in the country will be connected through fibre optic network by 2018 ,
telecom secretary J S Deepak.
 Source- Press Trust of India, 22 Mar 2016.
 Source- Indian Express, 02 Apr 2016.

7. Pillar 2. Universal Access to Mobile
connectivity
Universal Access to
mobile
connectivity
• Coverage: Remaining
uncovered villages (~42,300 villages)
• Timeline: FY 2014-18
• Cost: Rs 16,000 Cr
• Nodal Dept: DoT
Ongoing
Programme
Increased network
penetration &
coverage of gaps
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8. Progress so far..
 Spectrum Bid fetched 1,10,000 crores, till date highest investment in India.
 65,000 new towers installed for call drop issues.
 Planning of next Spectrum Bid in Jul/Aug.
 Till date 40 Crores internet users in India in which 60% are mobile internet users.
 Sales in Smart Phones will be more than 50 crores in next 1 year.
 BSNL Operating profit increases to 670 crores.
 As many as 2,500 villages in the State will receive broadband Internet connectivity within the next one
year.
 Internet major Google and state-run RailTel Corp. of India have joined hands to equip 400 railways
station in the country with high speed Wi-Fi networks, making it one of the largest public Wi-Fi projects
in the world.
 RailTel and Google are currently working on the monetisation model.
 Mohini Satpal, who works in a recruitment firm in Mahalaxmi, said she got down at Mumbai Central only
to check out the Wi-Fi. “So far so good,” she said, while logging in to check a video on YouTube. Mohit
Phalak, a chemical engineer, added, “It was quite fast & quick set up could download a 200MB video in
less than a minute.
• Source- Gram Uday Se Bharat Uday programme in Kachwa village of Karnal district on April 24, 2016.
• Source- Times of India
• Source- www.outube,com

9. Pillar 3. Public Internet Access Programme – National
Rural Internet Mission
• CSCs –
• made viable,
multifunctional
• end-points
• for service delivery
•Coverage: 2,50,000 villages (now
130,000)
•Timeline: 3 Years - March 2017
•Cost: Rs 4750 Cr
•Nodal Agency: DeitY
Ongoing Programme
Reach of Govt.
services to all GPs
Post Offices
to become
Multi-Service Centres
•Coverage: 1,55,000 Post Offices
•Timeline: 2 Years
•Nodal Agency: D/o Posts
This should be
long term vision
for POs

10. Progress so far
• The Indian Post Office is headed by Department of Electronics & Information Technology
(deity.)
• Over 1.55 lakhs post office in the country will be computerized with an outlay of Rs. 4,909
crores under IT modernizaion project of department of post.
• 1,30,000 rural Post office has been in phase of computerization which are run by “Gramin
das Sevaks”
• Emphasis is given on Speed Post services, CAG Surveyed across the country & found best
services in 8 States.
• Speed Post revenue increased by 120%
• 21,000 Post offices have been computerised and link with Core Banking Solutions.
• Remaining 25,000 Post office will be Computerised in coming May’16.
• Hand held devices which will be run on Solar energy will be given to Rural Postmen for
delivering services like Banking, Insurance, Money orders .
• Payment bank services will be introduced to customers with an amount limit of 1lac rupees.
• In all 60 companies like World Bank, City Bank, Barclays Bank , Deutsche bank to tie up with
Indian Post office in coming times.
• 100 Crores Aadhar card holders till date.
• App for Post Office Banking is India Post
• Source- Economic Survey 2016,

11. Pillar 4. e-Governance: Reforming
Government through Technology
 Government Business Process Re-engineering using IT to improve
Transactions.
 Online applications and tracking, interface between departments.
 Form simplification, reduction.
 Use of online repositories e.g. School certificates, voter ID cards,
etc.
 Integration of services and platforms –UIDAI, payment gateway,
mobile platform, EDI.
 Electronic Databases – all databases and information to be
electronic, not manual.
 Public Grievance Redressal - using IT to automate, respond,
analyze data to identify and resolve persistent problems – largely
process improvements.
 To be implemented across government - critical for transformation,

12. Progress so far..
• NeGP comprises of 44 Mission Mode Projects
encompassing 13 central MMPs, 17 state MMPs and 14
integrated MMPs. MMPs are owned and spearheaded by
various line ministries.
• 100 crores Aadhar cards to be linked to multiple services of
government.
• Digital wallet integrated with deity for payments.
• Connectivity with mygov.in for multiple link access to
citizens.

13. Pillar 5. eKranti - Electronic Delivery of Services
 Technology for education – e-
education
 All schools connected with
broadband.
 Free wi-fi in all schools (250,000).
 Digital literacy program.
 MOOCs – develop pilot massive
online.
 Open courses.
 Technology for planning-
 GIS based decision making.
 National GIS Mission Mode
Project.
 Technology for health – e-
healthcare.
 Online medical consultation.
 Online medical records.
 Online medicine supply.
 Pan-India exchange for patient
information.
 Pilots – 2015; full coverage in 3
years.
 Technology for farmers-
 Real time price information.
 Online ordering of inputs.
 Online cash, loan, relief payment
with mobile Banking

14. • Technology for education – e-education.
• National scholarship portal is integrated
with deity.
• India’s first MOOCS Platform SWAYAM to
be launched shortly.
• Narsingpur becomes 2nd village in
Telanagana to achieve 100% digital literacy
under NDLM scheme.
• Technology for planning-
• Indian Regional Navigation Satellite
System (IRNSS) launched by GPS tracking
of train.
• Technology for health – e-healthcare.
• Minister of Health and Family Welfare is
integrating with deity for this domain.
• Apps for healthcare & promoting family
planning- ANMOL
• Technology for farmers-
• The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare is
headed by Shri Radha Mohan Singh (Union Minister,
Agriculture).
• Use of Neem coated Urea (NCU) will avoid reduction in
use of fertilizers by 20 tonnes till 2018-19
• PM Launch e-NAM (National Agriculture Market), 200
mandis will be linked in 5 months and 585 by 2018.
• Apps for real time price & selling- Agri Market.
• App s for crop insurance information – Crop insurance.

15. Pillar 6. IT for Jobs
• Train Service Delivery Agents
• to run viable businesses
• delivering IT services
•Coverage: 3,00,000
•Timeline: 2 years
•Nodal agency: deity
Ongoing
Skilled VLEs and
Viable CSCs
Telecom service providers to
train rural workforce to cater
to their own needs
•Coverage: 5,00,000
•Timeline: 5 years
•Nodal agency: dot
Telecom ready
workforce
Train people in smaller
towns & villages for IT
sector jobs
• Coverage: 1 Crore students
• Timeline: 5 years
• Cost: Rs 200 Cr for weaker sections
•Nodal Agency: DeitY
New Scheme
IT ready
workforce

16. Progress so far
• 48,000 seats selected into digitally weak city for rural BPOs.
• Rural BPOs will fetch 4-5 lacs Jobs in coming years.
• Emphasis on development of ancillary industries (packaging, logistics) and
employment avenues in rural areas – reducing rural migration and
enhancing the revenue generation opportunities of CSCs.
• 3500 rupees to promote CSC in rural areas.
• Launch of csid portal for tracking payment of VLE’s.
• The IT sector is likely to create around 2.7 lakh jobs , while nearly 1.5 lakh
jobs can come in e-commerce. (Ritupurnima chakraborty, President-
Indian Staffing Federation)
• The organized sector in India is set to create one billion new jobs in 2016.
(Rajesh Kumar, CEO Myhiring.com and jobportal.co.in).
• With the government’s Digital India manpower demand is bound to
increase in core technology. (Vivek Madhurkar, COO Timesjobs.com)

17. Pillar 7. Electronics Manufacturing
Target NET ZERO IMPORTS by 2020
 Target NET ZERO imports is a striking demonstration of intent.
 Ambitious goal which requires coordinated action on many fronts.
 Economies of scale, eliminate cost disadvantages.
 Existing Structures inadequate to handle this goal. Need strengthening.
 Focused areas – Big Ticket Items.
 FABS, fab-less design, set top boxes, vsats, mobiles, consumer & medical.
 Electronics, smart energy meters, smart cards, micro-ATMs
 Incubators, clusters & Skill development.
 There are many ongoing programs which will be fine-tuned

18. Progress so far..
• India’s FDI Shoots up to USD 37.53 bn with services leading the pack.
• India and the United States have signed a Joint Declaration of Intent for
cooperation in the field of Information & Communications Technology and
Electronics (ICTE).
• Samsung to manufacture 10,00,000 mobiles per year.
• Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Samsung
Electronics have signed an MOU to set up the MSME-Samsung Technical
School, with an aim to establish a total of 10 such schools for conducting
joint training programmes across the country.
• Financial support from central & state government is given in 22 identified
areas.
• Defense ministry has listed 23 major projects from the UAVs, bombs
underwater systems and tank engines.
• Boeing , Google , Amazon to invest in Telengana: Rama Rao

19. Pillar 8. Early Harvest Programmes
Biometric attendance
To be completed
by Oct 2017
IT platform for messages
Targeted Mass messaging since
July 14
Government Greetings
to be e-Greetings
1st e-Greeting from PM on 15th
Aug 2014
Wi-fi in All Universities
Approval - Oct 2014
Implementation
Done by Dec 2015
Secure email within
government
Email to be primary
Mode of
Communication
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20. Progress so far….
• Biometric attendance for central government offices in Delhi
from 150 organization have already been registered.
• 1000 biometrics attendance are in the mode of installations.
• Mobile platform is available for SMS based weather services.
• Engagement of government ministries, departments,
ministers and officials through social media like tweeter, face
book, instagram etc.

21. Pillar 9. Information for All
 Online Hosting of Information & documents.
 Citizens have open, easy access to information.
 Open data platform.
 Government pro-actively engages through social
media and web.
 2-way communication between citizens and
government
 Online messaging to citizens on special
occasions/programs.
Largely utilise existing infrastructure–limited additional
resources needed.

22. Progress so far…
• Digital locker facility for online securing documents.
• Incredible india app to assist information by international and domestic
tourist for seeking information.
• m-epf app for employers and pensioners.
• MADAD app for grievances/queries related to
visa and passport.
• Over 2 crore decided case files in Punjab and Haryana High Courts
digitized

23. References
Social
• Twitter.
• Facebook.
Electronic Media
• http://indianexpress.com/
• http://timesofindia.indiatim
es.com/
• http://economictimes.indiat
imes.com/
• Press Trust of India.
Government Portals
•http://agricoop.nic.in/
•http://ors.gov.in/
• http://deity.gov.in/
•http://www.cmai.asia/digitalindia/pdf
/Digital-India-DeITY-Details.pdf.
• http://mod.nic.in
• http://mhrd.gov.in
• http:mib.gov.in

24. Disclaimer
Please note that the presentation is for information purpose only . All the logos, trademarks
and other intellectual properties are owned by respective entities owners.

25. Thank you
Vinod Kudre,
Faculty – Department of Business Administration,
Dhanwate National College, Nagpur.
vinod.dnc@gmail.com