Digital India Week
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project Digital India is all set to be launched on
July 1, 2015. The week-long project will be held in Delhi at Indira Gandhi
Indoor Stadium and is expected to witness the release of at least one major
e-governance project every day. It is believed that the event will attract an
audience of over 10,000 and approximately 400 top CEOs have been invited
including corporate glitteraties like Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry,
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, Wipro chairman Azim Premji, Bharti
Group chairman Sunil Mittal and Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani.
Source:
https://mygov.in/
The
highlights of the event are expected to be the Digital Lockers initiative which is designed to help the common
citizens store important documents like PAN cards, passports, mark sheets and
degree certificates; e-basta, a
platform to provide study material for students; e-hospital portal, to facilitate citizens the facility to make appointments
with the doctors; eSign facility, for
online digital signature service.
Digital
India aims to build infrastructure and provide the internet as a utility to
every citizen. It promises to improve service delivery by making services
available online. Digital India seeks to enable people to access the internet
by building digital literacy. Further, BSNL targets to provide Wi-Fi hotspots
in 2500 cities.
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