UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL INDIAA programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy

Presented by Vinod KudreFaculty, Department of Business Administration

Dhanwate National College, Nagpur1

What is Digital India? Digital India is a Flagship Programme with a vision to prepare India to

transform digitally. The focus is on being transformative – to realize IT + IT = IT. The motive is to transform the entire ecosystem of public services through the

use of Information technology . The focus is on making technology central to enabling change. It is It is an Umbrella programme – covering many department. It weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single,

comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal. Each individual element stands on its own. But is also part of the larger picture. It is coordinated by deity, implemented by the entire government – both at the

centre and state. These schemes will be restructured and re-focused & will be implemented in a

synchronized manner. Many elements are only process improvements with minimal cost. The Common branding of programmes as digital India highlights their

transformative impact.

Vision of Digital India

Infrastructure

Governance

Empowerment

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Nine Pillars of Digital India

1. Broadband Highways

2. Universal Accessto Mobile

Connectivity

3. Public InternetAccess Programme

4. E-Governance –Reforming governmentthrough Technology

5. E- Kranti –Electronic delivery ofservices

6. Information for All

7. ElectronicsManufacturing –Target NET ZERO

Imports

8. IT for Jobs

9. Early HarvestProgrammes

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Pillar 1. Broadband Highways

Broadband for all Rural

1yr: 50,000 GP2yr: 100,000 GP3yr: 100,000 GP

• Coverage: 250,000 GP• Timeline: December 2016• CAPEX: Rs 32,000 Cr• Nodal Dept: DoT

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Progress so far.. Department of Telecommunications Dot a part of Ministry of telecommunications & Information Technology)

is leading in development of this area. Ravi Shankar Prasad (Union Telecom Minister) is the role player for this Pillar’s development. 1,40,000 Optic Fibre Pipe line is installed and 11,50,000 Optic Fibre is installed. Devendra Fadnavis (Maharashtra CM) launched the first step in Maharashtra by setting up 5 Gram Panchayats

into Digital village in Nagpur district on the occasion of labour day . The villages are Khandala ( Taluka-Mouda .) Tarodi (BU) (Taluka- Kamptee), Khasala (Taluka-Kamptee), Dabha

(Taluka- Vihirgaon (Taluka-Nagpur Road) The GP will receive a speed of 4 mbps with efficient wi-fi for e-education, e-health, e- agriculture. 776 GPs are connected till date in Maharashtra & 28,000 GP will be connceted in 3 years. Virtual Mobile operating network is set up for sharing Bandwidth and wi-fi spot . AP Govt has signed a MOU with CISCO & Launched 15Mbps Broadband at Rs. 149, 100Mbps to Offices at Rs.

999. It is the 1st state wide broadband project “AP Fiber Net”. Target till April -Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram & rest of State to be covered end of July of this

year for which innovattion centre is set up in Vishakhapatnam All village Panchayats in the country will be connected through fibre optic network by 2018 , telecom secretary J

S Deepak.

Source- Press Trust of India, 22 Mar 2016. Source- Indian Express, 02 Apr 2016.

Pillar 2. Universal Access to Mobile connectivity

Universal Access tomobileconnectivity

• Coverage: Remaininguncovered villages (~42,300 villages)• Timeline: FY 2014-18• Cost: Rs 16,000 Cr• Nodal Dept: DoT

Ongoing ProgrammeIncreased networkpenetration &coverage of gaps

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Progress so far..

Spectrum Bid fetched 1,10,000 crores, till date highest investment in India. 65,000 new towers installed for call drop issues. Planning of next Spectrum Bid in Jul/Aug. Till date 40 Crores internet users in India in which 60% are mobile internet users. Sales in Smart Phones will be more than 50 crores in next 1 year. BSNL Operating profit increases to 670 crores. As many as 2,500 villages in the State will receive broadband Internet connectivity within the next one year. Internet major Google and state-run RailTel Corp. of India have joined hands to equip 400 railways station in

the country with high speed Wi-Fi networks, making it one of the largest public Wi-Fi projects in the world. RailTel and Google are currently working on the monetisation model. Mohini Satpal, who works in a recruitment firm in Mahalaxmi, said she got down at Mumbai Central only to

check out the Wi-Fi. “So far so good,” she said, while logging in to check a video on YouTube. Mohit Phalak, a chemical engineer, added, “It was quite fast & quick set up could download a 200MB video in less than a minute.

• Source- Gram Uday Se Bharat Uday programme in Kachwa village of Karnal district on April 24, 2016.• Source- Times of India • Source- www.outube,com

Pillar 3. Public Internet Access Programme – National Rural Internet Mission

• CSCs –• made viable, multifunctional• end-points• for service delivery

•Coverage: 2,50,000 villages (now 130,000)•Timeline: 3 Years - March 2017•Cost: Rs 4750 Cr•Nodal Agency: DeitY

Ongoing ProgrammeReach of Govt.services to all GPs

Post Officesto becomeMulti-Service Centres

•Coverage: 1,55,000 Post Offices•Timeline: 2 Years•Nodal Agency: D/o Posts

This should belong term visionfor POs

Progress so far• The Indian Post Office is headed by Department of Electronics & Information Technology (deity.)•

Over 1.55 lakhs post office in the country will be computerized with an outlay of Rs. 4,909 crores under IT modernizaion project of department of post.

• 1,30,000 rural Post office has been in phase of computerization which are run by “Gramin das Sevaks”

• Emphasis is given on Speed Post services, CAG Surveyed across the country & found best services in 8 States.

• Speed Post revenue increased by 120%• 21,000 Post offices have been computerised and link with Core Banking Solutions.• Remaining 25,000 Post office will be Computerised in coming May’16.• Hand held devices which will be run on Solar energy will be given to Rural Postmen for delivering

services like Banking, Insurance, Money orders .• Payment bank services will be introduced to customers with an amount limit of 1lac rupees.• In all 60 companies like World Bank, City Bank, Barclays Bank , Deutsche bank to tie up with Indian

Post office in coming times.• 100 Crores Aadhar card holders till date.• App for Post Office Banking is India Post

• Source- Economic Survey 2016,

Pillar 4. e-Governance: Reforming Government through Technology

Government Business Process Re-engineering using IT to improve Transactions.

Online applications and tracking, interface between departments. Form simplification, reduction. Use of online repositories e.g. School certificates, voter ID cards, etc. Integration of services and platforms –UIDAI, payment gateway, mobile

platform, EDI. Electronic Databases – all databases and information to be electronic,

not manual. Public Grievance Redressal - using IT to automate, respond, analyze

data to identify and resolve persistent problems – largely process improvements.

To be implemented across government - critical for transformation,

Progress so far..• NeGP comprises of 44 Mission Mode Projects encompassing

13 central MMPs, 17 state MMPs and 14 integrated MMPs.

MMPs are owned and spearheaded by various line ministries.

• 100 crores Aadhar cards to be linked to multiple services of g

overnment

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• Digital wallet integrated with deity for payments.

• Connectivity with mygov.in for multiple link access to citizens.

Pillar 5. eKranti - Electronic Delivery of Services

Technology for education – e-education

All schools connected with broadband.

Free wi-fi in all schools (250,000). Digital literacy program. MOOCs – develop pilot massive

online. Open courses. Technology for planning- GIS based decision making. National GIS Mission Mode

Project.

Technology for health – e-healthcare.

Online medical consultation. Online medical records. Online medicine supply. Pan-India exchange for patient

information. Pilots – 2015; full coverage in 3

years. Technology for farmers- Real time price information. Online ordering of inputs. Online cash, loan, relief payment

with mobile Banking

• Technology for education – e-education.• National scholarship portal is integrated

with deity.•

India’s first MOOCS Platform SWAYAM to be launched shortly.

• Narsingpur becomes 2nd village in Telanagana to achieve 100% digital literacy under NDLM scheme.

• Technology for planning- • Indian Regional Navigation Satellite Syste

m (IRNSS) launched by GPS tracking of train.

• Technology for health – e-healthcare.•

Minister of Health and Family Welfare is integrating with deity for this domain.

• Apps for healthcare & promoting family planning- ANMOL

• Technology for farmers-• The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare is

headed by Shri Radha Mohan Singh (Union Minister, Agriculture).

• Use of Neem coated Urea (NCU) will avoid reduction in use of fertilizers by 20 tonnes till 2018-19

• PM Launch e-NAM (National Agriculture Market), 200 mandis will be linked in 5 months and 585 by 2018.

• Apps for real time price & selling- Agri Market.• App s for crop insurance information – Crop insurance.

Pillar 6. IT for Jobs• Train Service Delivery Agents• to run viable businesses• delivering IT services

•Coverage: 3,00,000•Timeline: 2 years•Nodal agency: deity

OngoingSkilled VLEs and

Viable CSCs

Telecom service providers totrain rural workforce to caterto their own needs

•Coverage: 5,00,000•Timeline: 5 years•Nodal agency: dot

Telecom readyworkforce

Train people in smallertowns & villages for ITsector jobs

• Coverage: 1 Crore students• Timeline: 5 years• Cost: Rs 200 Cr for weaker sections•Nodal Agency: DeitY

New SchemeIT ready

workforce

Progress so far

• 48,000 seats selected into digitally weak city for rural BPOs.• Rural BPOs will fetch 4-5 lacs Jobs in coming years.• Emphasis on development of ancillary industries (packaging, logistics) and

employment avenues in rural areas – reducing rural migration and enhancing the revenue generation opportunities of CSCs.

• 3500 rupees to promote CSC in rural areas.• Launch of csid portal for tracking payment of VLE’s.• The IT sector is likely to create around 2.7 lakh jobs , while nearly 1.5 lakh jobs can

come in e-commerce. (Ritupurnima chakraborty, President- Indian Staffing Federation)

• The organized sector in India is set to create one billion new jobs in 2016. (Rajesh Kumar, CEO Myhiring.com and jobportal.co.in).

• With the government’s Digital India manpower demand is bound to increase in core technology. (Vivek Madhurkar, COO Timesjobs.com)

Pillar 7. Electronics ManufacturingTarget NET ZERO IMPORTS by 2020

Target NET ZERO imports is a striking demonstration of intent.

Ambitious goal which requires coordinated action on many fronts.

Economies of scale, eliminate cost disadvantages.

Existing Structures inadequate to handle this goal. Need strengthening.

Focused areas – Big Ticket Items.

FABS, fab-less design, set top boxes, vsats, mobiles, consumer & medical.

Electronics, smart energy meters, smart cards, micro-ATMs

Incubators, clusters & Skill development.

There are many ongoing programs which will be fine-tuned

Progress so far..

• India’s FDI Shoots up to USD 37.53 bn with services leading the pack.

• India and the United States have signed a Joint Declaration of Intent for cooperation in the field of Information & Communications Technology and Electronics (ICTE).

• Samsung to manufacture 10,00,000 mobiles per year.• Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Samsung

Electronics have signed an MOU to set up the MSME-Samsung Technical School, with an aim to establish a total of 10 such schools for conducting joint training programmes across the country.

• Financial support from central & state government is given in 22 identified areas. •

Defense ministry has listed 23 major projects from the UAVs, bombs underwater systems and tank engines.

• Boeing , Google , Amazon to invest in Telengana: Rama Rao

Pillar 8. Early Harvest Programmes

Biometric attendanceTo be completedby Oct 2017

IT platform for messagesTargeted Mass messaging sinceJuly 14

Government Greetingsto be e-Greetings

1st e-Greeting from PM on 15thAug 2014

Wi-fi in All UniversitiesApproval - Oct 2014ImplementationDone by Dec 2015

Secure email withingovernment

Email to be primaryMode ofCommunication

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Progress so far….

• Biometric attendance for central government offices in Delhi

from 150 organization have already been registered.

• 1000 biometrics attendance are in the mode of installations.

• Mobile platform is available for SMS based weather services.

• Engagement of government ministries, departments,

ministers and officials through social media like tweeter, face

book, instagram etc.

Pillar 9. Information for All

Online Hosting of Information & documents. Citizens have open, easy access to information. Open data platform. Government pro-actively engages through social media

and web. 2-way communication between citizens and government Online messaging to citizens on special

occasions/programs.Largely utilise existing infrastructure–limited additional

resources needed.

Progress so far…• Digital locker facility for online securing documents.

• Incredible india app to assist information by international and domestic tourist for seeking information.

• m-epf app for employers and pensioners.

• MADAD app for grievances/queries related to visa and passport.

• Over 2 crore decided case files in Punjab and Haryana High Courts digitized

References

Social• Twitter.• Facebook.

Electronic Media• http://indianexpress.com/• http://timesofindia.indiatim

es.com/• http://economictimes.india

times.com/• Press Trust of India.

Government Portals

•http://agricoop.nic.in/•http://ors.gov.in/• http://deity.gov.in/•http://www.cmai.asia/digitalindia/pdf/Digital-India-DeITY-Details.pdf

.• http://mod.nic.in• http://mhrd.gov.in• http:mib.gov.in

Disclaimer

Please note that the presentation is for information purpose only . All the logos, trademarks and other intellectual properties are owned by respective entities owners.

Thank you

Vinod Kudre,Faculty – Department of Business Administration,

Dhanwate National College, Nagpur.vinod.dnc@gmail.com