1. Why Digital India Programme?
Power of Digital Technology: An illustration
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Digital technologies have huge potential in changing the way we organize our life. They can help us eliminate physical resources. make many of our day today operations They can help us organize our Digital technologies enable us create a paperless documents and conduct transactions online. Digital resources are not constrained by location, time or size.
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Some features of Digital resources include: A digital document can be stored on network and can be accessed from anywhere and anytime using computer and mobile device. When government uses digital technology for delivering citizen services it can serve it's resident better. For instance, a resident can access a document from his mobile or home computer or in a nearby cyber center. There is need no need to visit office in person or physically carry a paper-based document.
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Within offices there is no space needed to store thousands of paper-based documents requiring large space and effort to organize them. For residents, managing their digital document is very easy. They can store them on digital storage and access anywhere. Residents can share digital documents with anyone by just providing a soft copy or link to those documents that wish to share. This saves paper, postage and efforts. For example a student can share a link to his academic records with institution where he is applying for admission.
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When government uses digital technologies - the application process for jobs or courses or other services becomes very easy and accessible from anywhere. Instead of travelling to places, people can use digital devices for application process and even to avail exam results.