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34 Pillars of Digital India:  Digital India is an umbrella programme that covers multiple Government Ministries and Departments. It weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision so that each of them can be implemented as part of a larger goal. Each individual element stands on its own, but is also part of the larger picture. Digital India is to be implemented by the entire Government with overall coordination being done by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).  Digital India aims to provide the much needed thrust to the nine pillars of growth areas, namely Broadband Highways, Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity, Public Internet Access Programme, e-Governance: Reforming Government through Technology, e-Kranti - Electronic Delivery of Services, Information for All, Electronics Manufacturing, IT for Jobs and Early Harvest Programmes.  Each of these areas is a complex programme in itself and cuts acros

VISION AREAS of DIGITAL INDIA 31 Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen: A well connected nation is a prerequisite to a well served nation. Once the remotest of the Indian villagers are digitally connected through broadband and high speed internet, then delivery of electronic government services to every citizen, targeted social benefits, and financial inclusion can be achieved in reality. One of the key areas on which the vision of Digital India is centred is “digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen”. A key component under this vision is high speed internet as a core utility to facilitate online delivery of various services. It is planned to set up enabling infrastructure for digital identity, financial inclusion and ensure easy availability of common services centers. It is also proposed to provide citizens with “digital lockers” which would be shareable private spaces on a public cloud, and where documents issued by Government departments a

DIGITAL INDIA- AN INTRODUCTION 25 The Digital India programme is a flagship programme of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. 26 E-governance initiatives in India took a broader dimension in the mid 1990s for wider sectoral applications with emphasis on citizen-centric services. The major ICT initiatives of the Government included, inter alia, some major projects such as railway computerization, land record computerization, etc. which focused mainly on the development of information systems. Later on, many states started ambitious individual e-governance projects aimed at providing electronic services to citizens..Though these e-governance projects were citizen-centric, they could make less than the desired impact due to their limited features. The isolated and less interactive systems revealed major gaps that were thwarting the successful adoption of e-governance along the entire spectrum

Power of Digital Technology:  An illustration  21 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. 22 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.  23 Within offices there is no space needed to store thousands of paper-based

4 The second important audience of this (resource) is  DIGITAL INDIA WORKER . Digital workers constitute the second largest growing group in India.  These are people  who use digital India infrastructure and resources within the context of their work and professions. They are  employees of state and central government who are directly affected by Digital India programme and working with it,  teachers,  outsourced skilled office workers, business executives who come across situations where digital India can play a key role and contribute towards their accomplishments and success.

This work (accompanying  presentations, videos)   intends  to put the Digital India resources at the center of every Indian’s  working and personal day-today life and transform her into a empowered  DIGITAL INDIA CITIZEN.  Digital India projects are built for and meant for every Indian. It is very inclusive in its objectives and services, every Indian will be affected by it and more importantly benefited by that. Making every Digital India citizen , the largest group of people in India aware of these resources and guide them towards  harnessing their potential is the first and foremost  objective  of this work.

2 Digital India is new platform. It is a technology platform. Future of India and its citizens will happen on it. The Indian government has created Digital India Platform for reaching out every citizen online and deliver citizen services electronically. Hence awareness of Digital India movement, it's scope and services must be there for every Indian. Be one living in cities or deep rural India.  Be a housewife or a student or a shopkeeper or an entrepreneur.  Digital India is all inclusive and is for every Indian irrespective of gender and geography or  age or area. It is universal. Digital India is everyone's concern and reality. Hence the first purpose of this book to change this low ratio of Indian residents using Digital India resources and make  them aware of these resources and encourage them to  start using them in their daily life..