Digital literacy in every family would give rise to e-revolution in the country; the development in the field of digital literacy has been commissioned as per the will of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious plan, said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Madhya Pradesh spokesman Deepak Vijayvargiya.
Vijayvargiya said that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious action plan National Digital literacy Mission target has been set to make digital literate to at-least one member of every family. BJP government of the Centre has sanctioned Rs 376 expenditure for implementing this scheme, he added.
Vijayvargiya further said that Digital India is that ambitious project of the country through which economy would be made knowledge based. The digital empowerment would provide double benefit to the youth of the country, on the one hand employment opportunities would be created for over two crore youths and on the other hand youths talent in the field of Information Technology (IT) would get perfection, he added.
Terming the digital mission as the game changer the BJP leader said that through this surety of services would be provided to the people on their demand. On completion of the target of connectivity of nine pillars at one point mobile connectivity would be provided through broadband highway throughout the country, reach of internet would increase, e-governance would be enhanced and the e-delivery in services would bring in e-revolution in the country, he added.
Notably, the Digital India programme aims at connecting all gram Panchayats by broadband Internet, promotes e-governance and transform India into a connected knowledge economy.
About a third of India’s 252 million internet users, and a fourth of mobile internet users, are in rural areas. But internet penetration in villages, at 8.6 per cent compared to 37.4 per cent in cities, has a long way to go, and this is the statistic Digital India hopes to change. The target of the mission is to make 10 lakh people digitally literate by end-2015.