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Central Government’s major flagship programme ‘Digital India’ has completed 6 years very recently. Discuss briefly about this and comment on its success.
Introduction:
‘Digital India’ was a programme launched by the Ministry of Electronics and Information technology. Transformation of India empowered by the knowledge was the key objective of the programme. It was launched on 1st July 2015. It ensures the services of the government are reached to the citizens electronically.
Body:
Services under this scheme:
- Digital locker
- E-education
- E-health
- Bharat Interface for Money
- Swacch Bharat Mission Mobile app
- Unified Mobile Application for New-age governance- UMANG
- National scholarship portal
Advantages of the programme:
- Brings transparency to the system
- Increase in revenue
- Removing the black economy
- Enables better governance
- Creation of employment
- Expansion of economy
- Direct benefit transfer implementation
- Timely disbursal of relief funds, subsidies, etc
Criticism:
India is in the transformation phase when it comes to data and mobility. A high percentage of rural population are yet to experience the high speed data and its related benefits. These schemes have not reached them as intended. The intermediaries who are providing such schemes in rural areas are asking for hefty fees. Lack of awareness is a major hurdle to these type of schemes where lesser knowledged-people are made scapegoats. Also, linking it to Aadhar has faced lot of criticism that government is behaving autonomously by acquiring data of the users.
Conclusion:
Implementation of such programs will naturally take place in a longer span of time. But the end benefits will be fruitful. Continuous awareness creation will contribute to the success of the schemes along with the proper punishments for mishandlers.
