Digital India: Whom Does it Benefit?

Hello everyone,

The initiative of Digital India started by the government is great in terms to making India a less-cash economy and disrupting the parallel economy, but we cannot close our eyes with the challenges it faces in terms of inclusivity of the scheme.

I feel Digital India is more focused on urban population and unless we shift our focus towards rural sectors of our society which contributes two-thirds of our population, complete digitization of India will be a dream.

We also need to deal with the grass root level problems such as internet connectivity in these areas which remains a question mark until now.

We need a lot of infrastructural development to have spectrum availability in order to get good connectivity. 55000 villages ate being deprived of internet connectivity.

We also need a policy level changes for data security and privacy in order to reduce the risk of cybercrime and terrorism which still remains a challenge for India. To address this we need huge investments in technology and strict regulation and then only we can move towards digitization.

Also, we have improved over the years in terms of reach and education of our people and opened up a bank account for them, but the question remains how many people are using it among the remote rural areas and how many of them understand " online transactions", etc. Digital literacy remains a big challenge for us which is only 10%, that means 90% of the people are digitally illiterate and unless this addressed the mission of Digital India won't be fulfilled.

These are some of the basic challenges faced by Digital India, it being for now benefitting only the urban population. Unless these are being addressed, I guess digitizing India would be a distant reality.

I would like to start with past where we used to go out for everything like food, shopping, no emergency messages, calls, we barely know e-learning, no fast approvals etc. So everything used to take time even it is emergency.

But now, everything is faster than before. We barely step out for our daily necessities. Digitalisation has helped us a lot during the pandemic in the case of education, some online service organizations, and firms. Many students who cannot attend offline classes of coaching due to academics or jobs or some who cannot go to cities and stays in rural areas will get benefited. Many are benefitting from online resources. Now, everything is shifted to online.

Everything has some disadvantages. So, digital resources, and platforms also have some. To transform to digital we need devices like mobile, should know how to operate it and should know about fake and real resources. It will also affect those who are selling goods outside or providing services offline. Hacking and leakage of personal data is the major problem if we are not aware of fake links, fake calls, and messages. But we can avoid this by aware people of it. It is also affecting students, due to the pandemic many students were addicted to mobiles and unable to focus on their studies. Even this can be avoidable if parents take a look at them.

In future we won't be using paper currency, everything will be much faster and the number of services increases.

I would like to conclude by saying that if we use these digital resources properly then everyone will get benefited for sure. As the population of India is increasing we need digital services for sure to handle everything and Most of people are trying to convert their services to digital.

Digital India whom does it benefit.

I'm vamshikrishna.

In my perspective, Digital India is a program initiated by the prime minister on July 1st 2015 with a vision of transforming India digitally and empowerment, economy.

Digital India Today making India make ever things easy and faster in transparent.

After digitalization transaction of money has become easy and comfortable, which made as to make our transactions without filling forms, making queues in the bank, And also made bankers and people make database digital, saved space and made eco-friendly use of paper is reduced.

Digitalization of India benefitted students, officers, different sector people to save there files certificate s digitally, in apps like a digital locker. ,

Online shopping sector I e digital marketing provided employment and made everything easy to shop from place sitting example Amazon, Flipkart gave employment to many people and made shopping available for everyone.

As everything as advantages and disadvantages digitalization affected some off rural people of Iletracy, as India is transforming and developing country digitalization benefit everyone to make us to grow faster.

It also attracted the businessman and entrepreneurs, example nowadays every businessman from a tea shop to the corporate sector has online banking where money can be made easily transferred to there account, with use of many digital '"' applications like phonepay, googlepay, I bank, yono, paytm.

It also empowering India's education, in learning using social media like FB, YouTube channels, in all sectors.

Providing sound of opportunity for innovations through online. Plantrix app for farmers to provide knowledge on crops regarding use pesticides for land.

Digital India has been implemented with an aim to introduce the use of digital technology across the country. If you look at the major countries with some great GDP, all these countries are digitally well advanced and have their digital market reach over all of their respective countries. So let's not beat around the bush and get to the pros and cons of the digital India initiative.

Pros:

* Idea's IIN (Idea Internet Network) will see the light of the day.
* Digital India initiative helps people connect around the country through technology
* Financial issues can be handled sitting at home
* The need to carry regular money can be avoided
* The flexibility for students to be able to study increases by a great amount
* Information can be gathered sitting at home
* Emergency situations can be handled by utilizing the internet and the respective contacts can be gathered
as well
* The need for documentation is reduced
* Transparency increases
* Opportunities in IT department can be increased along with the job search
* Work from home can be done in the fields like Freelancing and other part-time opportunities
* Bank accounts can be accessed from home

Cons:

* The vulnerability to hacks increases
* The rural people might find it a really hard transition
* Confusion while using the digital payment methods might lead to deception
* The rate of cyber crimes would increase to a drastic amount due to the lack of awareness

These are just a few out of the hundreds. But one thing is for sure, the advantages certainly outweigh the disadvantages and hence, in my opinion, Digital India is a great initiative, to begin with. If executed properly, a great rise in the development of India can be seen soon enough.

Digital India has the ability to benefit everyone dearly and thereby the economy of the country if it can be penetrated to the entire population, poor and rich, rural and urban, all alike.

Digital Banking is one of the major sectors of Digital India, that can transform the nation into a cashless economy and change the course of our lives for the better. With it we can make multiple transactions in the tip of a second, pay bills, accept payments, transform business and development.

Other aspects of Digital India include e-governance services which will fast track the processing time for all government related needs, and other utility services like for example, digilocker; which is a cloud based application that can store our Id cards, certificates and other important documents, and virtually carry it everwhere, using our personalised account.

With Digital India, we can make our country paperless and throw away the need to carry large stacks of hard copies. We can swiftly satisfy all our legit needs without having to heed to the demands of the officials, who maybe corrupt. We can have a better tomorrow, which is highly efficient, productive and reliable, which is not biased, corrupt or harsh.

While Digital India has its share flaws in relation to cyber security issues, what we have to understand is that the technology is improving day by day and the only thing standing in our way against becoming a thriving nation is the sheer lack of awareness that persists among us and if we are able to change our attitudes to life, to technology, to becoming aware of new things, to Digital India, we as a nation, will thrive and move forward, way ahead of the pack, as a beautifully systemic nation.

Hello good evening all of you!

Well, as per my view, every coin has two sides it depends on you how you are taking it. This startup is started in India by our prime minister Narendra Modi on 1 May 2015. Anyone can see that there is a vast difference between today's scenario and that time. We are getting many facilities. To prove this I want to put my example previously if I want to go anywhere I have to book tickets by going railway station and there I have to waste time by standing in queue and instead of doing all this there is no surety that I would definitely get ticket but nowadays this becomes very easy for me I can book my ticket by any app like paytm, irctc. This is not only about ticket one can see the benefit of it in another field like study. Again I want to keep myself as a user right now I am college student even I attend classes regularly but somewhere when my professor is not able to complete syllabus then definitely I have to go on YouTube for further knowledge.

Below is some key point of its demerits which I want to highlight it:

1. Everyone is getting its benefits. Digital India is just the backbone of the country which not only increases its economy rather it helps in developing of any country.

2. It brings transparency between government and common people.

3. Moreover, largely helpful for poor who are not able to buy books they can easily study online by watching videos.

5. It reduces our time everywhere if you are in a bank you have to waste your time there but you can save it by doing online transactions.

As, I have already said that there is always pro and cons so if you are not aware of hackers you could be hacked by them so be aware!

Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure the Government's services are made available to citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity. Through this campaign, the Government has also taken a step to Modernize the culture of we Indians by using our own technology for Faster and Smarter working. Digital India is benefiting all the peoples around the Nation by creating a chain of resources that can be easily accessible to the people.

There are many branches of resources that are connected to people.

For an example, the Government has created a website called Digilocker. As some documents are so consequential and cannot be carried because of insecurity and misuse of the information in documents in case of loss. This initiative of Digilocker is benefiting people to freely upload all their important documents on this website as it is heavily guarded with online security and can only access by the owner of the locker. So doing this a person can easily access his documents from anywhere and anytime he/she is need of documents.

Similarly, Agri Market, The mobile application has been developed with an aim to keep farmers abreast with the crop prices and discourage them to carry-out distress sale. This application automatically captures the location of the farmers using mobile GPS and fetches the market prices of crops which fall within the range of 50km. The prices of agricultural commodities are sourced from the Agri market portal that helps farmers get to their required crops with ease. There are many such initiatives in this Campaign benefiting all the people around the Nation in many ways.

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.

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.

According to me, Digitalization brought a lot of changes in the lifestyle of humans which can make things easier. Today, we are using technology that didn't even exist for 10 years. Mobile phones have become so important in our life for daily communications. From computers to electric vehicles, everything has impacted our lives in so many ways. But the question is who does this digitalization benefit a lot. I think it's not humans who got the most benefit from it. It's the companies who make use of digital technologies to do business. We can see that there are a lot of companies that generated billions of revenue by going digital. Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Jio, and there are so many big companies that are well-known companies that work in this sector. Companies used digital technologies for doing marketing, hiring, and training their employees. If we compare India with other countries like the united states, then we can see the difference. We are a lot behind them. India is a country of more than 132 crore people and a large number of the Indian population don't even know properly how to use new technologies. This difference shows that digital India has not benefitted the people of India but the growing net worth of the digital companies mark that the companies have done great use of digitalization. In my opinion, digital companies should make use of technology in such a way that it impacts the life of a lot of Indian people who are living far away from urban cities in a positive way which can help improve the situation of education in rural areas and create a lot of opportunities for the young people who wants to work in the digital sector.