Digital India: Whom Does it Benefit?

Hello everyone.

Digital India is a great initiative by our government and it is contributing a lot to the development of our country.

It ensures that govt services are available to everyone digitally (electronically) with good infrastructure and internet connectivity.

It has reduced corruption to a great extent and saved our valuable time and made everything easy. It has reduced the burden of making currency, and everyone is having a mobile wallet now and every transaction is transparent to users.

On the other side, it is beneficial to urban areas mostly and there are transaction limits and must be protected from cybercrimes.

Good afternoon everyone!

Digital India is the one step which is taken by our prime minister Narendra Modiji sir. Which involves a number of schemes and people have got benefits such as ujjwala scheme gave gas cylinder and so on.

As every coin has two sides, digitalization does not give benefits to rural areas people, this is a big problem where Modi government should be more focus.

I think digital India is a great step taken by our prime minister Modi though its a little hard work for the uneducated person to handle this method but it's only for few years when they learn it and understood the benefit of digital India then should be used it other wise its benefit because now you paid money others person through g -pay p -pay from our mobile no need to go bank no need to standing line hours to hours in this pandemic situation we can order food from home and got this food at home its huge benefit because the low risk for the people connecting also most of the work we can completed through our mobile no need to go out side home we can study on line its also helpful for student also office staff can work form home so I think every part of our society take advantage from digital India only have some minor disadvantage health issue damage eyepower some hackers fraud general people they also hacking bank details etc. Everythink has advantages & disadvantage but I think its a great advantage for Indian.

I think that digital India has benefited all people of the society but youth section has been most benefited. Let's see how the different sections of the society has benefited.

First, the older group who are not so much aware of the technologies and digitalization of everything. They are benefited as most of the services for them have also turned digital like there pensions or salary are being directly being deposited to their respective bank accounts.

Digital India makes everyone's life easier and the objective was the same. It benefitted the lower to upper class to access things easily.

Its contribution is high in every sector, from education to any government sector, and try to make everything transparent.

It made an interactive environment, we can put our thoughts and opinions.

Ayush Singh.

Digital India has lot of benefits.

In today's world the technology has reached at very high level. Reliance on internet has increased a lot. It saves our time. It will boost economy of country. Nowadays most of the payment is done digitally. Big companies organises there meeting digitally through zoom, Google meet etc.

The things which have lots of benefits also has some disadvantages. Some youth uses the digital devices in wrong way. They only do things which are for their destruction.

Digital India makes our life easy and fast. We can do everything in few minutes. We can send money to anybody from home. We don't go to bank. So it's make our life easy and possible.

Digital India is the best concept to reach people from all corner of the country. Also it helps the government to provide a good service to civilians about the different scheme.

So first whom does Digital India benefits.

In my perception, the areas where it benefits people are:

1. Banking Sector- It benefits both people and employees in the banking sector by making most of the things online. Like money transactions, changing one's credentials, applying for loans, and many more.

2. Agricultural sector- India is an agricultural-based economy. And awareness farmers matters the most as these people are less educated but contributes the most. They are able to learn schemes meant for them, able to see the weather for casting, technologies in agriculture, and even debt for their crop before farming and money after selling crop gets deposited in a minute.

3. Service Sector - All kind of service sector now uses technology for providing better services like online ticket booking, online application for driving license, Aadhar card, PAN card, online tax submission, and many more.

4. Students - Now everyone owns a smartphone every student can learn from online portals for free. Even nowadays we have an option like distance learning. Professors and students all around the world are connected.

Through a small gadget in our pocket.

5. Physically Challenged - The online shopping sites, online food delivery apps, and even in some cities few supermarkets provide the facility of home delivery of groceries, fruits, and vegetables. These are a great relief for physically challenged people.

6. Every citizen - As in India, we know corruption is the biggest evil. Digitization is a great initiative to bring transparency. So now every transaction is counted making less black money. A number of applications and sites dedicated to great ideas like buying and selling preowned things, e-commerce sites, and many more bringing sellers and buyers in direct contact.

There is a concept of public fundraising in which a person urges the public to contribute money for some disaster management, pandemic, NGOs, orphanage and sometimes for themselves also. And we are being the more fortunate can donate them just by one click.

There are a lot of benefits Digital India is doing and to a lot of people but now the question is whom does it not benefit.

So the answer is all the people who do not know how to use technology properly and having inadequate resources like not having good internet connection are the ones who are not taking advantage of this property. The government distributed mobile phones to encourage digitization but is unable to provide them good internet connection and also people who are not many experts in this (basically villagers, illiterates, and mentally challenged) are not able to identify frauds. So this increases cyber crimes hence again discouraging people.

Considering the current pandemic situation, where hygiene and social distancing have become an important part of everyone's life. Digital India will benefit businesses of all sizes. For example, take the HoReCa segment to understand this. There are many restaurants which have already discarded the use of traditional menu cards keeping the chance of spreading the infection to the customers and the staff. They have adopted a complete digital model of functioning. A customer is provided with a QR code on the table, through which he can browse through the digital menu, order, pay without any physical cash exchange. So according to me, digital India will be benefitted by businesses as well as the general public. But every good thing comes with cons too, so there might be a connectivity issue or online frauds etc. But overall, it's a great step towards the development of India.