Digital India gets Rs 4.

5 lakh crore push

Via Financial Chronicle | Jul 02, 2015
Prime minister Narendra Modi s signature project, Digital India, kicked off in sty
le with Indian and global CEOs committing investments of over Rs 450,000 crore i
n digitising the Indian economy through rollout of IT infrastructure backbone an
d taking governance to rural India. This is in addition to Rs 100,000 crore set
aside by the government in the next five years for Digital India to provide a ho
st of services including healthcare, education and Digital locker facility via t
he information highway. The prime minister announced the rollout of week-long Di
gital India amidst a galaxy of global and Indian chief executives eager to get o
n the IT bandwagon that s expected to change the way states and central government
provides services. Modi extended the make in India slogan to design in India and ca
lled for putting an end to electronic and IT imports all together by 2020. He as
ked the IT community to wage a bloodless war and serve humanity by `building credi
ble cyber security systems . The prime minister outlined his government s drive to e
nd the digital divide between rural and urban India by taking all government servi
ces to citizens doorstep via the information highway.