6- The Practice of Digital India- Overview of Digital India Programme

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Overview of Digital India Programme
Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity:
This initiative aims to ensure mobile connectivity in all parts of the country by 2018. The objective is to provide each citizen of the country with access to mobile networks and associated services. There are a number of services offered by different departments of Government and other basic services such as banking, insurance etc where the mobile number of the resident acts as the authentication for ensuring reliability of services. Hence access to mobile network is essential and there mobile connectivity is  being established.   
Public Internet access program
This program aims to improve connectivity within the country.  It intend to build common service centers ( CSC) in each gram panchayat and also converting post offices into multi service centers. The CSCs would provide citizens with centers from where they can access to multiple services like utility bill payments, exam records, land records etc. Post offices will be converted into multi-service centers to provide not only postal services but also financial services such as savings and insurance  
Broadband highways
Is a program building internet connectivity across the country. It is the essential and first step towards building digital India services. All that services that will be available as part of Digital India would require good connectivity across the country. Broadband highways is the basic connectivity to all citizens. This initiative focuses on establishing connectivity all over the country. As part of the initiative, 250,000 gram panchayats are planned to be covered under National Optical Fibre Network ( NOFN) by December 2016.  Another initiative is the building of National Information Infrastructure (NII) which will provide high speed internet connectivity to government departments by accessing the network and cloud infrastructure in India.
E-kranti
Is the most crucial initiative of Digital India. It provides services such as e-health, technology for justice, e-education etc. e-healthcare would cover online medical consultation, online medical records, online medicine supply, pan-India exchange for patient information Medical records of patients including multimedia data like CT scans, X-rays, and MRIs will be stored and accessed from a single point of access
E-education
Is  the project that aims at developing massive open online courses ( MOOC) that can be leveraged for education and provide citizens access to huge amounts of knowledge along with a forum for students and teachers to debate, discuss and form meaningful conversations
E-governance  aims at making the best use of growing technology to provide services like banking, civil services, postal services and more to every citizen of the country, irrespective of their location. It is not commercially feasible to open physical branches of banks and full government services everywhere in India, because India is a very widespread country. Hence to provide equal services to all citizens of the country, e-governance is planned to be implemented. e-Governance is one of the nine pillars of Digital India. It uses pervasive nature of IT as a platform and government intends to reach every far corner of the country and provide services like voter id, Aadhaar number, integration of services and more.
Information for all
This initiative is aimed at making the documents imperishable, pervasive and immune to theft and loss, while assuring the authenticity of the documents
Early harvest programs
This is the initiative that contains multiple services like national portal for lost and found children ( KhoyaPaya) , biometric scanners in all government offices, mass messaging app for government employees. A messaging App will be created for elected representatives and government employees, with the intent create a forum for discussion, generate a fast response and share ideas through a two way communication between representatives and employees

IT for Jobs- plans to train students from various villages, small towns Tier II and III cities so that they become competent enough to take up IT jobs in the next 5 years