Digital India: Whom Does it Benefit?

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Smita said:   7 years ago
Hello everyone.

Digital India as the word itself suggests means India as a digitalized country. Our country consist of all types of people- employed, unemployed, lazy, active, young, old, poor, rich, etc. According to my point of view, rather than listing out merits or demerits of digitalization, we must find out how it reaches to all of us.

It helps all groups in the following way:

1. Employed - An employed person now need not to worry about carrying cash in hand. Digitalization has made it easy to carry cash in a phone. Payment methods are now simpler and secure.

2. Unemployed - An unemployed person has now a vast opportunity to find a job by easier means. Many online sites provide a job according to your specifications. A number of government initiatives help you find a fine job.

3. Lazy - A lazy person just wants to get their work done at their place without standing in long queues.

Digitalization has made things easier like from ordering food online to buying groceries online, from making your documents to getting them altered. Everything has been made simple and quicker.

4. Active - An active person helps India make more digitalized, they at the moment share the things they see around themselves. Many issues have been brought to notice through the help of social media.

5. Young - The young generation knows very well how to save time. Being among one of them I can say that we know how to up bring our country. From using Paytm to Zomato we know how to make use of the internet as well as to generate employment.

6. Old - It has been easier for old people to get their work done. Now, they don't have to stand in long bank queue lines to deposit/withdraw their cash. The amount of their pension now gets automatically deposited in their bank accounts.

7. Poor - A number of government awareness programs have been started to make the illiterate people aware of the changes happening around them. Its easy for the farmers to know the actual price of their crops and compare it digitally. A number of schemes have been launched to help poor people by opening their bank accounts at 0 balance, aadhaar card centres are now open in numbers to help them at any time.

8. Rich - Rich people can now see the market happenings which change at every second anytime they need. Filing their tax returns have now been easier through the help of Filing return Online.

Look, people, the government has done their work now it's our time to make our country developed.
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Dharmesh said:   7 years ago
As right now, our country is considered a developing country but the step of the government towards the digitalization. We can say that it is the step for transforming the India from devloping to the developed country. Because of the following reasons:

1) After digital India we can transfer the money from our smartphone and laptop by using the paytm, phonpee, googlepay, tez etc. Application through UPI transaction. In conventional method earlier we have to go at the bank and have to stand in long queue. It takes too time. But in the digital method the time will be less as the work will be finish in less time means the efficiency of work will be increased and as we complete this work in less time then we can able to do any other work.

2) As we know that there are many peoples g who do corruption but through digital cash transfer they all people's transaction can be seen by the government if they want. So the transparency of work is 100 per cent. And also it is reliable.

3) As digital India will create many jobs so the unemployment can be reduced.

If this digitalization will be used by remote people then it brings more benefits to India.

As also there are some disadvantages of digital India.

1) Hacking.
2) forgetting password or pin.
3) Maybe illiterate people don't know how to use it.

But the above problems have a solution. By providing some training to the remote area living people. And also for hacking cybercrime security there.

Thus any process takes some time to complete. And India is a big county and Also the population of India is very high so because of this, it takes some time to spread digitalization to each and every person of India. Thank you.
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Vishal said:   6 years ago
Digital India, A great initiative has been taken by the government. Thanks to the IT and engineers who have made it easy for us. I think it has benefited for all of us and government too.

As living in modern age the main thing makes it modern is Digitalization. Almost all the needs of man are digital now. We can get everything at home only by touching the screen. Food, groceries, clothes, shoes, fashion everything is being ordered directly at home. Digitalization has eliminated the long long lines, queues from ticket Windows to cashier's window.

Paying moneys, ordering food, knowing information, learning, teaching, filling the forms are now available on one touch.

Every government services are being digital and making it more transparent so benefits to common man are getting easily and in transparency.

Digital India is leading us towards to the.

Global market and showing our strength to the world.
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Puja Gupta said:   7 years ago
Digital India is a campaign launched by GOI introduced by our PM Narendra Modi on 1st July 2014. As we know everything has two sides same as digital India also has Prons and cons.

First, discuss the pros:

1. Through Digital India, people who were standing in a long queue in banking work, booking train tickets or in shopping work invest their valuable time. . To reduce this wasting of time and reduce the hard work of people, digital India is a great step.

2. Not only the people of India get a benefit but also our country became developed in economic as well as in the education sector.

3. Due to digital India, less paperwork than before days, so less cutting the trees and corruption of money is less due to online work.

4. There is no need of waiting for auto or taxi. If we want to go somewhere we can call any cab by using an online application.

5. Digital India is a big step taken by govt towards a modern India where everything is available for people to gain information about rules, laws, various program of govt to benefit themselves.

Now, discuss the cons of digital India:

1. It is not helpful for rural area people who don't have the knowledge of the Internet.

2. Due to corruption on online work like hacking that hack our accounts or private details.

In this matter, my view is everybody should cooperate to be our country developed if we people make our country corrupted or doing like bad works how our country compete with another country.

When every people of our country wants to our country developed and every people be kind and loyal towards our motherland then our country became a developed one.

That's all about the topic. Thank you so much.
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Dipti said:   5 years ago
I think Digitalization has been a great boon for a number of people. Like a pandemic we are encountering now, it is so risky to go out of homes for work or anything else. Due to digitalization, many people did not lose their jobs, many people could work at the comfort of their rooms. Many companies adopted the digital platform working culture which not only help the employees save their jobs, but also the work and output of the company were not disturbed.
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Prerna Gupta said:   6 years ago
According to my perspective, Digital India was a boon to the Indian economy but at the same time, it had several disadvantages also.

First, talking about the positive pursuit of digitalisation, the problem of theft has declined, corruption reduced at a somewhat lower level, education system enhanced and the most beneficiary segment was the banking system. Hassle-free banking was one of the dreams of Indians a few years ago. This came true with the advent of digitalisation. Now no long queues are seen, no dominance of employees is tolerated as everything is done from your smartphone itself.

Now talking about its disadvantages, Digital India is not meant for weaker sections of society as most of the people belonging to lower poor class still don't have smartphones, due to which they can't use this method of paying money online. The second issue is, in India the literacy rate is still not so boosted, hence many people still suffer from the problem of understanding the methodology. The last issue which made digitalisation a problem for most of the Indians was working Internet connections. Many times your mobile does not have a valid data pack due to which you suffer there. Hence to conclude, according to me digital India had both positive as well as negative sides.
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Shantanu Mandavgane said:   7 years ago
Digital India is an Initiative taken by GOI. There are two sides of a coin and digital India is no different. Firstly, I would like talk about the pros as they are much more relevant than the cons.

Digital India has made our life easier. You don't have to stand in question to book a ticket, make reservation or debit and credit money from banks. You can just do these daily chores on a simple click.

As the population of India is increasing, the education quality is decreasing. With the help of applications like by us and other educational applications, students can have access to quality education along with facts and figures.

There was a time when people had to take help of agents to make licences, passports, etc. But now the middleman has gone and we have the direct access to apply.

Digital India will decrease the use of paper and therefore will reduce the deforestation.

Apps like paytm, google pay, and all the payment apps have made our life smooth. Just one click and we can transfer money to anyone and anywhere and have a track of account.

With the help of digital apps like ola, uber, foodpanda, swiggy, etc. Our life has become so much easier and safer.

Now talking about the cons, Still, There is a large no of the population who do not have a access to the Internet or a smartphone. Digital literacy is still an issue. Cyber crimes are increasing day by day. There are target groups like senior citizens and rural people, to whom making a digital savy is difficult. Gradually these issues will get resolved so I believe Digital India is going to Impact the country more in a positive way.
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RAJJAT said:   6 years ago
Digital India is one of the best implemented government scheme that's what I felt. This is implemented by our PM Mr. Narendra Modi.

I highlighted him because his gestures in politics have proven the point that India is tending to become a developed nation. And it really does with his efforts. And one of the effort is making India a digital country.

Now. Let me give you a brief about it.

Digital India is a scheme where all the individuals have been given the opportunity to go online (using the Internet) in any kind rather than to go for offline. Now, the question is why?

Let me clear it to you.

And yes, you will see all your basic necessity can be fulfilled by both modes: offline and online.

But here the caption is TIME. Online mode helps you to save a lot of time with efficiency.

Just take an example of bank transactions.

Some years back, we need to go to the bank to deposit the money standing in long queues, waiting for our turn, and.

To regularly check the bank timings as well. If we are late, then the next day!

But, now the process became so smooth like icecream, just by pressing a button we can deposit our money.

Don't you think that's the biggest change in Digital India scheme?

Then, the booking of trains. And especially the tatkal but now, even we can book our main course meal in the train from the desired station. HOW IT IS POSSIBLE ! its not magic but the effects of DIGITAL INDIA SCHEME.

I don't think, there are any demerits, but some people are saying about the illiteracy which I saw and would tell them just by replying that "yes, illiterate people may not be able to use it properly. But this is the moment for them to learn about technology, and that's not rocket science!

Illiteracy is not a stamp which you can't remove. It's just about the mental ability to learn a thing at our own pace. ".

It comes under the Education sector, so we need to sharpen that. Rather than to add this point on your demerit list.

Thank you.
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Sumit said:   6 years ago
Digitalisation, from my perspective, digital India is one of the great initiative taken by the government. By going digital, it saves our time.

It has several benefits like.

1. Let take an example, for withdrawing a small amount of money from our account, we had to stay in a long queue, but now we can do that in a few seconds.

2. Not only digital India is helping rich people but also poor, now a tea seller also has phone pay and paytm barcode for transactions. Even a ten-rupee can also be directly transferred into his account.

3. Digital India made the people aware of technology, a few years back there were only a few people who knew about online shopping, online delivery foods app but now every second person is taking the advantage of that.

4. It also increases the employment chances, people show their talents on Youtube and other social media and they got famous also they are earning lot of money.

So in my view, digitalisation is a big change in Indian history and it has a disadvantage but according to me it has more advantages.
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P Kishore said:   6 years ago
Nowadays most of the countries are going very fastly in digitalization, I would like to appreciate to our honorable PM for implementation digitalization successfully in India. Nowadays banking services growing very fastly by using this digitalization implementation. As well as most of the common people are using, transfer money to any account within the seconds through mobile phones I think this is the one of great achievement of our government At the same time there is a privacy issues are also there, most of the uneducated people suffer through this but any way govt and banks should create awareness to people.

Every time hackers are using different methods to steal the money from customer's accounts. Many drawbacks are there I said only a few issues. Overall it's good for our economy.
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