Digital India: Whom Does it Benefit?

Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India in order to ensure the Government's services are made available to citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology. The initiative includes plans to connect rural areas with high-speed internet networks. Digital India consists of three core components: the development of secure and stable digital infrastructure, delivering government services digitally, and universal digital literacy.

Launched on 1 July 2015 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is both enabler and beneficiary of other key Government of India schemes, such as BharatNet, Make in India, Startup India and Standup India, industrial corridors, Bharatmala, Sagarmala, dedicated freight corridors, UDAN-RCS and E-Kranti.

As of 31 December 2018, India had a population of 130 crore people (1.3 billion) , 123 crore (1.23 billion) Aadhaar digital biometric identity cards, 121 crore (1.21 billion) mobile phones, 44. 6 crore (446 million) smartphones, 56 crore (560 million) internet users up from 481 million people (35% of the country's total population) in December 2017, and 51 per cent growth in e-commerce.

Hello everyone,

I would like to share my views on digital India. As you know with the implementation of demonetization we are witnessing a huge shift towards digital economy. Our prime minister has launched a large number of schemes which allow us to use internet while transacting. From the past 2 years we have seen people using internet in many activities whether it is shopping online, conversing online through texts, talking online, or ordering a home delivery for something, we are using internet in a wide range of areas. So we can say that India is becoming digitized. Now the question arises whether it is benefiting everyone or not. Well, as you know many poor people who don't have access to a smart phone or a cyber cafe in their locality may not be able to properly utilize this benefit but they are showing interest in learning how to use internet. So I would conclude by saying that those illiterate people would like to get educated on using internet in their daily lives, so this digitization is actually giving them opportunity to learn something new for earning a living because otherwise they might not have been able to learn to operate on internet throughout their lives. So in the long run it is a win-win situation for everyone. Thank you.

Digital India: Whom does it benefit?

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to start the discussion today.

In my opinion, the digitalization of India is a must; other developed countries are moving to be digital. First of all, we should know: What is digital India? For example, we are using the UPI for money transactions like phonepe, paytm, and Google; this is the digital method of payment.

Similarly, we use the digital method rather than the traditional method. As our discussion topic said, Whom does it benefit? Obviously, the answer is people, but other than that, the huge benefit goes to the people who contribute to developing this type of digital method. We should be digital, but for digitalization, we should not play with nature or disrupt the nature cycle; otherwise, nature will destroy us completely. We should be digital in only those sectors that are required, like India train, transport, agriculture, and digital cities. However, we should not try to make our own artificial sun like China thinks. We use digitalization to promote the business, emerging technologies like AI, etc. Every coin has two sides, i.e., positive and negative. Digitalization also has many negative points. I. E dependency of technology, digital crime, etc.

Digital India is the initiative launched by the government of India, in order to remove the corruption from the country. Because if all the transactions would get online they can be seen by anyone, which anyone can't hide. It's also providing UPI accounts to people which help them to have their money in there wallet anytime in their phones. There are many applications nowadays who are made only for this purpose like Paytm, Phonepe, Amazon pay which helps in making digital India easy. And as a friend of mine said that it will not work for the rural people because they don't get a proper internet connectivity and other things, I would like to tell that, our PM Mr. Narendra Modi has been working for it also by taking help of Mukesh Ambani to provide the Jio facilities to them for free or for low prices, so I think soon this issue will also sort out and rural people will also accept the idea of digitalization. As by using UPIs, we get attractive cash backs which everyone liked the most. So the use of it is getting more. And instead, it makes most of our work easy because we don't need to go to the banks to transfer money. Or get in a line pay electricity bills oOr book tickets for travelling or for movies. It just made things easier.

Digital India is a big initiative taken by PM and the government in order to make India digital where lower class is still struggling for their basic needs. The mission is to make each and every part of the country digital, smart cities, online payment work and pressuring to make use of digital apps like Paytm and bhim. The step taken is good but in a country where people are fighting for shelter, education and food and where the demand of electricity is not fulfilled, how can you benefitted from digital India approach.

I think firstly there is need of fulfilment of basic needs of people. After 71 years of independence, the struggle for food and education is not stopped. Digital India is a good initiative but it is limited to only a class of people who have the resources to use it. And some are still scare of online marketing and payments due to data insecurity and frauds.

Making everything digital suddenly is not going to help. It will take time to make India fully digitalized.

There is also issues of cyber crimes and insecurity of data which are not taken seriously yet in our country. We got to hear about data breaching and snooping of data very often. Resolving these is necessary so that people can use it fearlessly.

Hello Everyone.

I am Akash.

Digital India is an initiative taken by our government to provide all government's services to its citizens digitally. It was launched on 1 July 2015. It is apparent the motive behind such an initiative was to provide services to Indian citizens in a fast and secure way, which had not been possible in the non-digital regime as India has a huge population. In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, Digital India rose as a saviour of Life.

Digital India brought smiles to all age groups.

Children can have effective education at their home, at their own comfort zone. It brings in a plethora of job opportunities for job aspirants. Company employees can work from home. Old age people can seek government service and health service at their doorstep.

Every sector benefiting a lot from digital India. Money transaction has become seamless. Drones helped a lot, especially in the Defense sector. E-commerce has made our daily life easier. Like these, there are numerous gains from Digital India.

Digital India has some flaws in it. The government must address these flaws soon. Rural India must be made familiar to Digital India as soon a possible. Make it immune to cybercrime, strengthen the security.

Hello, I am Bablu Rana.

Digital India benefits everyone either directly or indirectly. Those who are aware of computer knowledge can access internet easily and those who are not can enjoy the benefits by others. Digital India makes life easier.

It has the following benefits :.

1) It helps in online education.

Many students are able to study from home or anywhere because of digital India. Those who can't be offered offline coaching because of high price, able to study just because of digital India.

2) Digital India helps in an online transaction.

We don't have to stand in a queue in a bank for long. Ultimately it saves our time.

3) We can order anything like food and other stuff online.

4) It gets closer friends and relatives who are far away.

Despite it has so many benefits it has many consequences as well.

People are facing cyberbullying, security concern and many other problems. Lots of youths are wasting there time on video games so parents must be careful about it.

Lastly, it depends on us how we use it. It will give fruitful results if we use it in a better way and can destroy us if we used it in the wrong way.

We can't move high without internet. In this digital world we have to go with it.

Today we are in a digital world where we save a lot of money and time using the digitilization concept. It has a lot of advantages and these advantages as we all are optimist let us think about advantages only. It reduces human work and time to a great extent. Whereas in the digital market. We are getting a lot of offers and more models for us then an offline mart. It is also easily reached to people as everyone has their own mobiles and laptops. This decreases the shop rent and current bills also from this we conclude that it benefits both seller and buyers.

Advantages of digital India are:

1) reduces time in atms.
2) we can buy clothes online where we have more varites and offers than offline.
3) we can buy some rare medicines and consult a digital doctor using apps.
4) we can book tickets etc.
5) we can watch movies online it is a form of entertainment.
6) students can buy some rare copies of the book online.
7) heavy books are converted into digital which reduces strain for students.
8) it introduces maps to go to unknown places.

Therefore, I end this with a view that digital India is useful but this may have some drawbacks now let us join our hand together to welcome an efficient digital India.

Digital India totally starts a different phase in our lifes by making everything go cashless. Nowadays, we do not have to carry fat wallets, if we need a huge amount of money, we just need a smartphone and internet connection in it. In today's time, transactions are only one click away.

Yes, there is threat of hackers, but companies are continuosly working to make it more and more secure. This game depends on trust, so we have to trust on these services. People should also be educated to be aware of thugs and online frauds.

If we see it from a different angle or from a negative point of view, it made us lazy and a bit slower in our lifes, as nowadays we can get anything even without moving our body from our sofa, we can get food, we can get new clothes and stuffs, etc. And this also without paying anything in cash, so you don't even need to go to the safety locker.

Again something positive is that, it made transportation very easy, as we can book or rent a car, if we want to go somewhere by which the need of vehicles decreases, which surely helps in decreasing air pollution and saving the environment.

Digital India, needs a good support from the public to work in proper and in an efficient manner.

Digital India was launched by the Government of India on 1st July 2015, the initiative aims to connect citizens through electronic means and improve online infrastructure, internet connection and empower people in the field of technology.

One of the successful outcomes of the Digital India initiative has been the runaway success of the JADHAN-AADHAAR Mobile (JAM) initiative which provided a digital identity to more than a billion Indian citizens as well as access to the banking system. It would be beneficial for rural and urban areas which would their life easier.

Digital India can be great step for the education sector as it can completely transform India into digitally empowered society. These initiatives are e-education, will provide education through the technology by using smartphones and mobile apps.

The effects of the Digital India are.

1) Reduce corruption.
2) Increase speed of public sector services rendered to citizens of the India.
3) Decrease documentation.
4) Provide an easy to manage online storage to store all documents.
5) Provide simple and easy to use cloud space on the internet.

Conclusion:

Digital India is promoted By the Government to use maximum things in a digital way.