5- The Practice of Digital India- Vision of Digital India
Vision of Digital India
Digital Infrastructure as a utility to every citizen: Infrastructure is essential for existence and success. When infrastructure is not available, it makes life very hard. For instance, if a village or town is not connected by road or railway or if the roads are poorly built, then travelling from that village of nearby city takes more effort, consumes more time and make people less productive. Secondly lack of basic infrastructure impedes economic activities and hence progress. Businesses are discouraged to invest money and set up new ventures when an area of village lacks basic infrastructure. One of the reasons for uneven development of India is essentially due to unevenly developed infrastructure. The digital India project addresses this issue head-on. Realising the importance digital infrastructure for individual and institutional connectivity and hence productivity, the project is making all efforts to provide Digital Infrastructure as a utility to every citizen. What it means is- a robust internet connectivity will be provided reaching out to every village in the country and there by for every citizen. Every citizen will be on the Internet
Governance and Services on demand:
On demand service is the defacto standard for most of business service delivery today. People are getting used to online shopping and on-demand services. Now the Indian government wishes to offer all its citizen services in online and on-demand. Currently availing any government service means the concerned person personally going to office and getting it done. It is labour intensive, paper-based and often time consuming. With Digital India all that will be the thing of the past. Using online services or even apps downloaded from government websites citizen can obtain information, get certificates and services delivered electronically
Digital empowerment of citizens
In order to use online services, the citizen need to be trained and made comfortable with digital environments and its artifacts. The Indian government is taking up a massive digital literacy initiative