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3. The Purpose and Target Audience

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The Purpose and  Target Audience 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.. 3 This work (accompanying  presentations, videos)   intends  to put the Digital India resou

10. Aadhaar The Resident Identity Number

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Digital India- The Complete Reference DIGITAL INDIA IN ACTION Introduction With huge infrastructure put in place and various projects built on it, it is time to put those resources in to use. Now we will consider how these technologies are being used by government to build and deliver citizen services electronically, integrate services seamlessly and bring about efficiency to adminstrative operations and transparency to its conduct. These technologies can be best understood in terms of (1) how government is using them  (2) how residents are able to access services easily and (3) how private institutions and entrepreneurs are harnessing them for building innovative solutions to benefits their country people.  AADHAAR CONCEPT: Aadhaar identity platform is one of the key pillars of ‘Digital India’, wherein every resident of the country is provided with a unique identity or Aadhaar number. The largest biometrics based identification system in the world, Aadhaar is a str

8. Digital India Services

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Digital India- The Complete Reference  DIGITAL INDIA SERVICES  65. UN-RESERVED TICKET THROUGH MOBILE APPLICATION (UTS APP) In order to promote paperless economy, Indian Railways has launched its new UTS on mobile application. This official android mobile ticketing app enables booking unreserved paperless journey ticket, issue/renew season ticket and platform ticket. The app has introduced two modes of booking mobile tickets-Paper Ticket and Paperless Ticket. Website.https://www.utsonmobile.indianrail.gov.in/RDS/ 66. UMANG UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance) is one of the key initiatives under the Digital India program to develop a common, unified platform and mobile app to facilitate a single point of access to all government services. It is envisaged to act as a master application, which will integrate 200 applications which will offer around 1,200 services of various government departments of the Centre, states and local bodies, and even

7. Digital India Infrastructure

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Digital India - The Complete Reference Digital India Infrastructure  STATE WIDE AREA NETWORK The Government had approved the Scheme for establishing State Wide Area Networks (SWANs) across the country, in March, 2005 to be expended by the Department under Grant-in-Aid of Rs. 2,005 crore, over a period of five years. Under this Scheme, technical and financial assistance are being provided to the States/UTs for establishing SWANs to connect all State/UT Headquarters up to the Block level via District/ sub-Divisional Headquarters, in a vertical hierarchical structure with a minimum bandwidth capacity of 2 Mbps per link. Website.http://meity.gov.in/content/state-wide-area-network-swan  36 SINGLE WINDOW INTERFACE FOR TRADE (SWIFT) As part of the “Ease of Doing Business” initiatives, the Central Board of Excise & Customs, Government of India has taken up implementation of the Single Window Project to facilitate the Trading Aross Borders in India. The 'India Cus