A presentation on

Digital India
 It is a Programme to prepare India for a knowledge future.

The focus is on being transformative – to realize IT + IT = IT

The focus is on making technology central to enabling

change.

What is Digital It is an Umbrella Programme – covering many departments.

India? It is coordinated by MeitY, implemented by the entire

government – both at the Centre and State.

The Programme pulls together many existing schemes which

have been restructured and re-focused.

The common branding of programmes as Digital India highlights their

transformative impact.
 “The vision of Digital
India programme is to
Vision
transform India into a
digitally empowered
society and knowledge
economy.”
 Digital
Digital
Infrastructure
Empowerment
as a Utility to
of Citizens
Every Citizen
Vision Areas

Governance & Services

on Demand
 High speed internet as a core utility

Cradle to grave digital identity -unique, lifelong, online,

authenticable

Vision Area 1: Mobile phone & Bank account enabling participation in digital &
Infrastructure financial space

as a Utility to Easy access to a Common Service Centre

Every Citizen
Shareable private space on a public cloud

Safe and secure Cyber-space

 Seamlessly integrated across departments or jurisdictions

Services available in real time from online & mobile platform

Vision Area 2: All citizen documents to be available on the cloud – citizen not
Governance & required to provide copies etc.

Services On Services digitally transformed for improving Ease of Doing Business

Demand
Making financial transactions electronic & cashless

Leveraging GIS for decision support systems & development

 Universal Digital Literacy

Universally accessible digital resources

Vision Area 3:
All documents/ certificates to be available on cloud
Digital
Empowerment Availability of digital resources / services in Indian languages
of Citizens
Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance

Portability of all entitlements through cloud

 2. Universal Access
1. Broadband 3. Public Internet
to Mobile
Highways Access Programme
Connectivity

4. E-Governance –
Pillars of Reforming
5. eKranti –
Electronic delivery 6. Information for All
Digital India government
through Technology
of services

7. Electronics
Manufacturing – 9. Early Harvest
8. IT for Jobs
Target NET ZERO Programmes
Imports
1. Broadband
Highways
 Broadband for All - Rural
• 2,50,000 village Panchayats would be provided with
fibre connectivity (BharatNet)

1. Broadband Broadband for All - Urban

Highways • Fast-tracking RoW permissions

National Information Infrastructure (NII)

• Provide high speed connectivity and cloud platform
to various government departments up to the
panchayat level.
 This initiative focuses on network penetration
and filling the gaps in connectivity in the
country.

2. Universal There are around 50,000 villages in the country

Access to that do not have mobile coverage.
Mobile
Connectivity As part of the comprehensive development
plan for North East, providing mobile coverage
to uncovered villages has been initiated
 Common Services Centres (CSCs)

3. Public • CSC 2.0: Aims to cover 2.5 Lakhs of Gram

Panchayats for maximizing delivery of e-
Internet Access Services to the citizens
Programme
Post Offices

• A total of 150,000 Post Offices are being

converted into multi service centres
 Government Business Process Re-engineering using IT to improve
transactions
• Form Simplification, reduction
• Online applications and tracking, Interface between departments
• Use of online repositories e.g. school certificates, voter ID cards, etc.
• Integration of services and platforms – UIDAI, Payment Gateway, Mobile Platform, EDI

4. e- Electronic Databases – all databases and information to be electronic, not

manual
Governance:
Workflow automation inside government
Reforming
Government Public Grievance Redressal - using IT to automate, respond, analyse data to
identify and resolve persistent problems – largely process improvements
through
Technology
 Technology
for Education
Technology
Technology
for Cyber
5. eKranti - for Health
Security
Electronic
Technology
Delivery of for Financial
Technology
Services for Farmers
Inclusion

Technology Technology
for Justice for Security
 Technology for Broadband and wi-fi connectivity to Schools, digital literacy program at the national
Education – e-Education level and leveraging Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs).

Technology for Health – Use of technology for better healthcare service delivery that includes online medical
consultation, online medical records, online medicine supply, pan-India exchange for
e-Healthcare patient information, etc.

Technology for Farmers This would facilitate farmers to get real time price information, online ordering of
inputs and online cash, loan, and relief payment with mobile banking.
Provisioning of Mobile based emergency services and disaster related services to
Technology for Security citizens on real time basis so that they can take precautionary measures well in time
and minimize loss of lives and properties.

Technology for Justice Interoperable Criminal Justice System shall be strengthened by leveraging several
related applications, i.e. e-Courts, e-Police, e-Jails and e-Prosecution.

Technology for Financial Financial inclusion shall be strengthened using mobile banking, Micro-ATM program
Inclusion and CSCs/ Post Offices.

Technology for Cyber National Cyber Security Co-ordination Centre would be set up to ensure safe and
Security secure cyber-space within the country.
6. Information 2-way communication
between citizens and
Online Hosting of
for All government
Information & documents

Government to pro-
Citizens to have open, actively engage through
easy access to information social media and web
- Open data platform based platforms to inform
citizens - MyGov.in

Online messaging to
citizens on special
occasions / programs
Video on
MyGov
7. Electronics
Manufacturing
This pillar focuses on promoting electronics
manufacturing in the country with the target
of NET ZERO Imports by 2020.
Coordinated Approach FABS

micro- Set top

ATMs boxes
Taxation, incentives

Economies of scale, eliminating cost disadvantages

Incubators, clusters

Skill development, Enhancing PhDs

Smart Focus VSATs
cards
areas
Government procurement

Safety Standards – Compulsory registration, Support for Labs and MSMEs

National Award, Marketing, Brand Building Smart

Energy Mobiles
National Centres – Flexible Electronics, Security Forces
meters
Consumer
R & D in electronics
& Medical
Electronics
 Train people in smaller towns & villages for IT sector jobs

Train Service Delivery Agents to run viable businesses

delivering IT services

8. IT for Jobs 1 Crore

students Telecom service providers to train rural
target workforce to cater to their own needs
over 5
years 3,00,000
5,00,000
 India BPO North East BPO
Promotion Promotion
Scheme (IBPS) Scheme (NEBPS)

48000 Seats 5000 Seats

BPO Employment Employment

Promotion opportunities for
1,45,000
opportunities for
15,000 in NER
Scheme
Outlay – Rs. 493 Outlay – Rs. 50
Crore. Crore

Support – Upto ₹ Support – Upto ₹

1 lakh / BPO Seat 1 lakh / BPO Seat
 Early Harvest Programme basically consists of those projects
which are to be implemented within short timeline.

IT Platform for Messages

Government Greetings to be e-Greetings

Biometric attendance
9. Early
Wi-Fi in All Universities
Harvest
Programmes Secure Email within Government

Standardize Government Email Design

Public Wi-fi hotspots

School Books to be eBooks

SMS based weather information, disaster alerts

National Portal for Lost & Found children

 NDCP 2018 – Strategic Objectives
Ambitious, yet Achievable

Currently 30%
India ranked 30%
as “Limited” 100%

Digital Broadband 2022

For All 2018
Sovereignty
$ 50 Bn
8 Mn
Current
Deficit: $42 bn Net
Positive 4 Mn 4 Mn
NDCP 2018
$ 8 Bn
Intl New Jobs
Trade
Exports Imports Top 50 in 2018 2022
8% of
2017 Standing ICT Dev. GDP
Index Current Global
5 16 66 80 134
Average
4.5%
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UK USA Brazil China India
 NDCP Goals – Connect India

National Broadband Mission

50 Mbps 10 Million 10 Gbps

BharatNet
NagarNet
5x 250x 100x
Jan Wi-Fi
GramNet
10 Mbps
38,000 100 Mbps

Broadband Speed Wi-Fi Hotspots Broadband at

Gram Panchayats 40
 Jandhan -
Cashless

JAM Trinity -
The Foundation Aadhaar -
of Contactless
Transformation

Mobile -
Paperless

JAM (short for Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile) trinity refers to initiative to link Jan Dhan
accounts, Mobile numbers and Aadhar cards of Indians to plug the leakages of
government subsidies.
Number of Beneficiaries: 37.66 Crore

Deposit in Accounts: Rs 107, 904 Crore

Number of Rupay Debit Cards issued to beneficiaries: 29.70

Crore

126 thousand Bank Mitras (BCs) delivering branchless

banking services

Most of these have been opened using eKYC in a completely

digital and paperless manner
 “Faceless, Paperless, Cashless” is one of professed role of Digital India

Promotion of digital payments has been accorded highest priority to

bring every segment of country under the fold of digital payment
services

Digital Vision is to provide facility of seamless digital payment to all

citizens in a convenient, easy, affordable, quick and secured
Payments manner

GoI is working on strengthening of Digital Payment infrastructure

and creating awareness through promotions of digital payments

Dedicated ‘Digidhan Mission’ setup for building strategies and approaches

in collaboration with all stakeholders to promote digital payments and
create awareness.
 Number of Digital Transactions
UPI based P2P
Rs. 7,620.02 Crore
The world’s
World’s first
second largest
Biometric based
domestic card
payment system
scheme

Open, real time

system

World’s first
Number of BHIM transactions
Feature phone
based Txns
Nation-wide real-
time
interoperable bill
Rs 1,336.39 Crore
payment system
World’s first
universal QR
code based
payment solution

Number of Debit Card

transactions: Rs. 1,076.81 Crore
 Only Numbers – No
Smart Cards

Ensuring Security Random Numbers –

and Privacy of No Intelligence, No
Information Profiling

35.96 Crore
124.84
Aadhaar Crore
Generated
authenticated No Guarantees to
Citizenship, Rights, Voluntary in nature
Entitlements

Aadhaar Authentication

• No more physical presence

Uniqueness –
Aadhaar eKYC All Residents –
Ensured through
Including Children
• No more photo copies biometric attributes
Mobile 48
 TOTAL MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS (IN MILLIONS)

Rural 526.05 Mobile Teledensity

180

160 155.28
Urban 645.71
140

120

Total 1171.76
100
89.54

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 80 1400

58.92
60

Mobile Reach 40

20
(till 2018) 0
Total Urban Rural
Some Important
Initiatives under Digital
India
 GeM created to facilitate online procurement
of common use Goods & Services required by
various Government Departments /
Organizations / PSUs.

GeM aims to enhance transparency, efficiency

and speed in public procurement.

What is GEM?
It provides the tools of e-bidding, reverse e-
auction and demand aggregation to facilitate
the government users achieve the best value
for their money.

The purchases through GeM by Government

users have been authorized and made
mandatory by Ministry of Finance by adding a
new Rule No. 149 in the General Financial
Rules, 2017
Advantages to the Buyer
Advantages to the Seller
 Enables citizens to provide instant feedback on availing eService of the Government

Trigger based service integration with department’s process workflow through APIs

Localized feedback forms

Overview
Reports, Dash boards and real-time APIs on collected feedback shared with
Departments

Helps Departments in identifying pain areas from citizen’s perspective and take
corrective action

Continuously assesses the quality of eServices to realign processes to achieve targeted

benefits
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 How RAS Works

Feedback
Reference ID Page

Or Or
Mobile No SMS/ Email ID

FEEDBACK FEEDBACK
ANALYTIC Departmental
REPORTS Application

Departmental RAS Application Citizens

Application

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 Feedback
Request SMS

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Feedback
through Portal
(In Questions format)

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Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance

Provides a single platform for all Indian Citizens to access pan

India e-Gov services

Unified approach where citizens can install one application to

avail multiple government services

Available on multiple channels like mobile application, web, IVR

and SMS

Accessible through smartphones, feature phones, tablets and desktops

Targeted at the idea of paperless
governance, DigiLocker is a platform
for issuance and verification of
documents & certificates in a digital
way, thus eliminating the use of
physical documents.

Indian citizens who sign up for a

DigiLocker account get a dedicated
cloud storage space that is linked to
their Aadhaar (UIDAI) number.
 Self-uploaded
documents can be
digitally signed using
Digital Locker makes the eSign facility
it easier to validate (which is similar to the
the authenticity of process of self-
It reduces the documents as they
administrative attestation).
are issued directly by
overhead of the registered issuers.
Citizens can access Government
their digital departments by
documents anytime, minimizing the use of
Benefits
anywhere and share it paper.
online. This is
convenient and time
saving.
 Digital Locker Rules and • Information Technology (Preservation and Retention of Information by Intermediaries Providing Digital
Amendment (July 2016 & Feb 2017) Locker Facilities) Rules, 2016.

Ministry of Civil Aviation (Bureau of • Acceptance of photo Identity documents from DigiLocker account of the departing air passengers.(Oct
Civil Aviation Security) 2018)

• Acceptance of digital Aadhaar and Driving Licence from Digital Locker as proof of identity of
Indian Railways
passengers for undertaking journey by train (Jun 2018)

Ministry of Road Transport and • Acceptance of DL, Registration Certificate or other documents presented through DigiLocker (Aug
Highways (MORTH) 2018)

• Madhya Pradesh Transport Department - Notification for DigiLocker Acceptance (Sep 2017)
• Karnataka Transport Department - Notification for DigiLocker Acceptance (Feb 2018)
• Chandigarh Administration Transport Department - Notification for DigiLocker Acceptance (July 2018)
• Goa Transport Department - Notification for DigiLocker Acceptance (Aug 2018)
• Bihar Transport Department - Notification for DigiLocker Acceptance (Aug 2018)
State/UT Transport Departments • Transport Department Uttarakhand - Notification for DigiLocker Acceptance (Aug 2018)
• Kerala Police Dept - Notification for DigiLocker Acceptance (Sept 2018)
• Department of Transport, Jharkhand - Notification for DigiLocker Acceptance (Sept 2018)
• Department of Port and Transport, Government of Gujarat - Notification for DigiLocker Acceptance
(Sept 2018)
• Transport Department, Government of Haryana - Notification for DigiLocker Acceptance (Nov 2018)
Central Board of Secondary
• CBSE Class XII Results (May 2017)
Education (CBSE)
Electronics & IT Department, • Implementation of DigiLocker system in Government Departments, PSUs, Autonomous bodies,
Government of Kerala institutions and Universities - sanctioned - Orders issued (Sept 2018)