The Practice of Digital India
Ravindra Dastikop
Author | AI and YOU: A Practical Guide to the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Narrative Designer | AI Meaning Architect |
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India’s Digital Transformation is underway
As I was putting the final touches to the draft of this book to be submitted to the publisher, Times of India reported that (1) FASTags has overtaken cash collection in National Highway tolls and (2) The Finance Minister announced that UPI based payments and RuPay debit card transactions are exempted from MDR. These two developments among others illustrate the speed with which Digital India is transforming the way government is serving citizens and how nation is moving from traditional ways of conducting transactions- cash or paper to DIGITAL .
Today in India we have available enough infrastructure, knowledge, exposure and experience needed for the successful practice of Digital India. National Government Services Portal (https://services.india.gov.in/) lists nearly 10,000 services most of them offered on fully online mode. However, the percentage of people who are aware of these resources and applying them in their daily life for professional and personal purposes is very small compared to the rest of the population.
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Digital India Resources are underutilized
Let me give you an example. As part of digital India citizen services suite the Indian government has made available a world class secure digital storage service called Digilocker. Digilocker is open and available to every Indian resident. Residents can store and share documents securely.
However the number of Indian residents who have created accounts on Digilocker and using it on a regular basis is very small (34 million users) . In my opinion every college student in India should have created account by now and has been using it actively. This needs immediate attention and action.
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The Goal
This work sets its goal as to help overcome this situation and bring Digital India resources central to every Indian resident and join this wonderful journey of transforming India into Digital Economy and Knowledge society as envisaged in Digital India programme.
POINTER:: To know current number of Digilocker users see here https://Digilocker.gov.in
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