New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the Digital India book and policy documents at the launch of the Digital India Week in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Here are the highlights:
Want to congratulate RS Prasad and his team. They have used a comprehensive integrated approach to change India’s future, said Narendra Modi
I am confident that the dreams of crores of Indians will be fulfilled
Time has changed. Back in the day when we visited someone the kid in the house used to play with your glasses or a pen
Now the kids go for your phone. Thats how much technology-oriented the world has become. And we need to go with the times
If the demographic dividend with not get digital strength then we wont be able to yield fruits of it globally
Arun Jaitley while addressing the Digital India programme said, “From an economic point of view this is the beginning of a new kind of freedom for the people.”
“Many changes are taking place in our country. India wants 8-10% growth and wishes to grow faster. We have the challenge of eradicating poverty,” said Jaitley.
More than 10,000 people, including top business leaders like Mukesh Ambani of Reliance, Kumar Mangalam Birla and the Tata Group’s Cyrus Mistry attended the event.
Mukesh Ambani made announcements related to Reliance JIO on internet service rollout, making affordable smartphones and devices in India. “I believe Digital India will be a huge success because of the adoption of technology by the youth of India. Reliance will invest Rs 250 crores across digital India pillars,” said Ambani.
“TCS has partnered the government for projects like Passport Seva and others in remote locations,” said Cyrus Mistry, Chairman of Tata Group.
“We plan to invest $7 billion in the next 5 years to consolidate connectivity infrastructure. Also launching a mobile wallet,” said Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla.
“Our Prime Minister is India’s greatest and world’s most popular leaders in the digital space,” said Anil Ambani.
Earlier, Union Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the ‘Digital India Week’ is not only an idea of an IT-enabled service but an IT-enabled society.
“I am indeed grateful that honourable Prime Minister after his historic victory within 100 days conceived this inspirational programme designed to completely transform governance by harnessing the potential of information technology with the participation of the government, the people and the private sector,” Prasad said at the launch of the mission.
The minister further said that Digital India will bring about a great change and appealed to everyone to make the mission a great success.
