DIGITAL INDIA

1. What do you mean by the topic 'Digital India'?

Ans. The Digital India programme, is a flagship programme of the Government of India with a
vision of transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Digital
India is a campaign launched by the Government of India in order to ensure the Government
services are made available to citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and by
increasing internet connectivity or making the country digitally empowered in the field of
technology. It consists of 3 core components. (a) The development of secure and stable digital
infrastructure (b) Delivering government services digitally (c) Universal Digital Literacy
2. Why is the campaign Digital India launched?
Ans. Digital India was launched because in today's technological advance world, India needed
secure & stable digital infrastructure to keep up pace with the rest of the world.
3. Who is the head of Digital India?
Ans. Digital India was launched by our Honourable PM Shri Narendra Modi & currently CEO of
this programme in Shri Abhishek Singh
4. What is the vision of Digital India?
Ans. The vision of Digital India programme is to transform India into a digitally empowered
society and knowledge economy.
5. What do you mean by e-Kranti?
Ans. e-Kranti - Electronic Delivery of Services: There are 31 Mission Mode Projects under
different stages of e-governance project lifecycle. Further, 10 new MMPs have been added to e-
Kranti by the Apex Committee on National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) headed by the Cabinet
Secretary in its meeting held on 18th March 2014. It includes - Technology for e-Education, e-
Healthcare, Farmers, Justice etc.

6 . How has Digital India impacted you or people around you?

Ans. Earlier sectors like healthcare, banking and education were out of reach of people. There
were 'n' number of limitations such as middleman, illiteracy, poverty, lack of funds, information
and investments and these problems had created even more imbalanced regional growth. The
poor literacy rate in India is due to unavailability of physical infrastructure in rural and remote
areas. The Digital India project will help in providing real-time education and may be will help a
bit in solving the problem of lack of teachers in classroom. The internet facility has provided
infrastructure for online platforms through massive online courses. Banking facilities had also
been enhanced due to advanced technology. Banks can now reach new customers groups
incurring lowest possible costs. M-health can promote healthcare services. Also, Digital
platforms can help farmers in know how (crop choice, seed variety), content (weather, plant
protection,) and market information (market prices, market demand, logistics).
7. Do you think India would have a better place without this campaign?
Ans. Every coin has two sides but we compare the pros & cons of Digital India then we can say
that pros outweighs the cons by multiple times, so India would not have been better place
without this campaign.
 8. Compare today's and your parents generation in digital fluency. What do you think is the
reason for this contrast?
Ans. To be honest, Majority of the people of our parents generation were digitally illiterate.
Though they are evolving with time & learning a lot of things but compound to today's
generation in general they are far behind. The major reason for the same is availability of
resources & exposure with technology

9.Explain any 4 pillars of Digital India.

Ans. 1. Broadband Highways 2. Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity

3. Public Internet Access Programme 4. e-Governance: Reforming Government through
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10. How has Digital India impacted you or people around you?

Ans. Earlier sectors like healthcare, banking and education were out of reach of people. There were 'n'
number of limitations such as middleman, illiteracy, poverty, lack of funds, information and investments
and these problems had created even more imbalanced regional growth. The poor literacy rate in India
is due to unavailability of physical infrastructure in rural and remote areas. The Digital India project will
help in providing real-time education and may be will help a bit in solving the problem of lack of
teachers in classroom. The internet facility has provided infrastructure for online platforms through
massive online courses. Banking facilities had also been enhanced due to advanced technology. Banks
can now reach new customers groups incurring lowest possible costs. M-health can promote healthcare
services. Also, Digital platforms can help farmers in know how (crop choice, seed variety), content
(weather, plant protection,) and market information (market prices, market demand, logistics).