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Digital India Initiative (DII) completes 9 years

Posted 02 Jul 2024

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Launched in 2015, Digital India Initiative (DII) is a flagship programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy

  • It is an umbrella programme that covers multiple projects of various Central Ministries/Departments and States and Union Territories (UTs).
A diagram titled "Nine Pillars of Digital India" featuring a central blue circle with the title, connected to nine labeled sections: 1. Broadband Highways, 2. Universal Access to Phones, 3. Public Internet Access Programme, 4. E-Governance, 5. eKranti, 6. Information for All, 7. Electronics Manufacturing, 8. IT for Jobs, and 9. Early Harvest Programmes. Each section has a corresponding icon.

Key Features of Digital India Initiative

  • Key Focus Areas:
    • Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen
    • Governance & Services on Demand
    • Digital Empowerment of Citizens
  • Pillars: Covers 9 pillars of growth areas (refer infographics)
  • Implementation: Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) is a main coordination agency along with other ministries and monitoring committee (headed by Prime Minister). 
  • Initiative launched: Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG), DigiLocker etc.

Digital India Initiative has led to Ease of Living and transparency in country. 

  • Digital Public Infrastructure:  Enabling a technology-led model for growth that is collaborative, equitable, and democratises opportunity.
  • Financial Inclusion: Over 11 Crore farmers now receive money directly in their bank account.
    • Over 137 Crore Aadhaar numbers generated. 
  • BharatNet:  Under it, 6.83 lakh km of optical fibre network has been laid. 

Key challenges faced by Initiative:  Coordination Issues (Program covers many departments), Rural- urban digital divide, etc. 

  • Tags :
  • Digital India Initiative (DII)
  • Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY
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