Recently, the Prime Minister inaugurated Digital India Week 2022 under the Digital India programme, which aims to promote ease of doing business and make life easier.
Theme: ‘New India Technology Inspiration’.
To transform the country into a digitally empowered society and knowledge based economy.
During the event, the Prime Minister launched several digital initiatives aimed at increasing access to technology, streamlining service delivery to make life easier and promoting startups.
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Initiatives:
Digital India Bhashini:
Digital India Bhashini is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) led language translation platform.
Bhashini platform will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available in public domain to MSMEs (Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises), Startups and individual innovators.
Digital India Genesis (GENESIS) : The Hindu Analysis
‘Digital India Genesis’ (Gen-Next Support for Innovative Startups) is a national deep-tech startup platform to discover, support, develop and succeed successful startups in Tier-II and Tier-III cities of India.
My Scheme : The Hindu Analysis
It is a search and discovery platform facilitating access to government schemes.
It aims to introduce a one-stop search and discovery portal, where users can search the schemes for which they are eligible.
My identity : The Hindu Analysis
It is a National Single Sign on (NSSO) for a citizen login.
It is a user authentication service in which a single set of credentials provides access to multiple online applications or services.
Chips Startup (C2S) Program : The Hindu Analysis
The objective of the C2S program is to train specialized manpower in the area of semiconductor chips design at Bachelor’s, Master’s and Research levels and act as a catalyst for the growth of startups involved in semiconductor design in the country.
It offers mentoring at the organizational level and provides state-of-the-art facilities for design to institutions.
India Stack Global : The Hindu Analysis
It is a global repository of key projects implemented under India Stack like Aadhaar, UPI (Unified Payment Interface), DigiLocker, Coin Vaccination Platform, Government e-Marketplace, Diksha Platform and Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission.
It will help establish India as a leader in building digital transformation projects at the population level.
Digital India Program : The Hindu Analysis
It was launched in the year 2015.
This program has been enabled for many important government schemes like BharatNet, Make in India, Startup India and Standup India, Industrial Corridors etc.
Field of vision : The Hindu Analysis
Digital infrastructure as useful to every citizen.
Governance and services on demand.
Digital empowerment of citizens.
Purpose : The Hindu Analysis
To prepare India’s knowledge for the future.
To be transformative, IT (Indian Talent) + IT (Information Technology) = IT (India Tomorrow) have to be realized.
Centralizing technology to enable change.
An umbrella program covering multiple departments.
Achievements of Digital India Program : The Hindu Analysis
Since 2014, more than Rs 23 lakh crore has been transferred to the beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer or DBT.
Digital platform services like Aadhaar, UPI, Covin and Digilocker have contributed to the “ease of living” as it allows citizens to get online services without having to go to government offices or middlemen.
Digital India has brought the government to the doorsteps and phones of the citizens. More than 1.25 lakh Common Service Centers (CSCs) and Grameen Stores are now taking e-commerce to rural India.
Similarly property documents for rural properties are being made available using technology.
With the help of One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC), free ration was ensured for more than 80 crore countrymen.
India has undertaken the world’s largest and most efficient COVID vaccination and COVID relief program through the Co-Win platform.
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