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16 INTRODUCTION INFORMATION INDIA

INDIA
IT+IT=IT
TALENT
TECHNOLOGY
TOMORROW

Digital India has been able to create that positive set of energy, which is

not only pushing the Indians to ‘Think Digital’, but also attracting foreign
nations to ‘Think India’

DIGITAL INDIA AND THE INDIANS 9 PILLARS OF DIGITAL INDIA
The successive governments irre-
spective of their political orienta-
tion have always valued Informa-
tion Technology as a future enabler.
With the present dispensation the
entire building blocks of IT, telecom
and electronics got a direction in
the shape of Digital India, where for
the first time, the entire value chain
including citizens got clarity about
the contours of Digital India and
how and what it would mean in the
lives of ordinary millions of citizens
of this spectacular nation. Universal Acces To Mobile Connectivity
The Digital India programme Public Internet Access Programme
was officially launched on July 1, Electronics Manufacturing Early Harvest Programmes
2015, over 3 years ago with the Broadband Highways
motto ‘Power to Empower’. For eGovernance Information for All
the first time citizens got a holistic eKranti IT for Jobs
awareness that kickstarted a kind
of pull where even an ordinary citi-
zen somewhere deep in the rural
India with very limited knowledge
of world affairs got excited about
Digital India, understanding how it ering vision that brings the villages that people want to realise to be-
would change their and their chil- at par with the urban availability in come successful. The definition of
dren’s lives. The rural India, es- the country. being successful has gone beyond
pecially elderlies understand that Urban India also looks at Digital money, but there is little gestation
Digital India is critical to the overall India as an enabler that brings in period that everyone is looking for.
development of their youth, who global equity in terms of facilities, People want overnight richness,
would get the best of education and access and affordability. The urban fame and accomplishments that
healthcare in their native places. India population is aspirational and too of global standards.
Digital India for them is the empow- dare-dreamer. There are dreams For both rural and urban Indi-