Write a speech on the topic "Digital India- prospects and challenges" for 3 minutes.
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Digital India, a much ambitious programme, was launched on 1st of July (Wednesday) in 2015 at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, Delhi. It was launched in the presence of various top industrialists (Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry, RIL Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, etc). In the meeting, they shared their ideas of bringing digital revolution to mass people of India from cities to villages. Various events have been held in the presence of Information Technology companies to cover 600 districts in the country. Digital India programme is a big step taken by the government of India to make this country a digitally empowered country. Various schemes regarding this plan have been unveiled (worth more than Rs 1 lakh crore) such as Digital Locker, e-health, e-eduction, national scholarship portal, e-sign, etc.
Digital India
Good morning friends,teachers, director and principal. Today, I'm going to give my speech on digital India. So, To make India more digital and more technological, government of India launched the "Digital India Campaign" under the motto "Power to empower".The main motive of this campaign is to provide and ensure the high speed internet and electronically things to every citizen of India. This campaign was launched in the year 2015 by Prime minister of India Narenda Modi at Delhi.
The main aim of this digital India campaign is to provide high speed internet to every citizen of India, Improving online infrastructure, to provide a digital ID to every citizen, providing the availability of integrated services and departments to every citizen. To make India more digitized, government of India have created free Wi-Fi zones at public places like Metro, Railways and Airports.
Government of India ensure to have all transactions and payments online and digitized by the year 2023. Government has launched the digital locker to provide a connection between government and common people. Through this, People can send and receive e-documents, e-tendering's and many more other digital activities.
Digital India is a new motive of Indian government to make India digitized and powerful knowledge economy country. Today, there are various Villages which still don't have availability of internet, Government motives to provide high speed internet to all of these citizens. Recently, in 2019, Government also launched the new program in digital India called as "National Broadband" which is the project of 7 Billion INR. This project Aims to provide high speed internet to every village and town. Digital India program is to be coordinated by organisation called as DEITY.
Digital India is today one of the most successful campaign started by Indian Government. As this world is becoming digital and electronically day by day, Government of India is trying to make india more technological and more digital. The Internet service providers of India like Jio, Airtel, idea, vodafone, BSNL was communicated by government to low down the prices of their internet plans. Jio successfully done it's work. And, in 2016, the internet users in India was increased by 5 Million, 10 Million in 2017, 15 Million and 23 Million in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
As the number of smartphone and internet users in India are increasing day by day, then it is a clear sign that, The project "Digital India'' is a successful campaign by indian government.
The three main visions of Digital India Campaign are:
i) Digital infrastructure
ii) On-demand operations and services
iii) Digital empowerment of citizens.
i) Digital infrastructure:
Providing high speed internet, Major use to online services to every citizen, creating a digital ID of every person, Mobile phone and banking making online and digitally.
ii) On demand operations and services
If common people will request government for any particular service which is not available in our country, but provided in other countries, then government will do on demand services. Citizens should be able to use all cloud apps and services for online data storage.
iii) Digital empowerment of citizens
This includes universal digital literacy, universal digital resources, services in Indian languages.
Indian Talent (IT) + Information Technology (IT) = India of tomorrow (IT).
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Thanks to Digital India.