Digital India: Whom Does it Benefit?

Around 2015 onwards, India is moving towards digitalization and with most of the Gen X and Gen Z population the transformation is multiplied. All the government related information, reports, filling and registration can be accessed online. The emergence of various startups who are connecting the target customers via internet and people are also enjoying the comfort of getting everything in just a click.

But some people are not enjoying digital India.

Who are benefitted?

1. Demographical factor - The online world is very much enjoyed and used by the teenagers and adults of around 40 years who are literate. Exceptions are there like a 80 year educated person definitely finds it easy to use.

2. Business- Being digital opens up new opportunities for business and they can reach to customers anywhere in the world. It becomes easy to serve people when most of the information are online. It also reduces redundancy.

3. Customers - Digital India saves time, effort and energy of every one and makes the process smooth.

A complete digital India can also be curse to some.

Literacy and rural areas becomes a major challenge in digital India. Non educated people attracts the risk of revealing the personal details like bank account and rural areas still face network issue. This situations depart them from availing the services.

Digitalization is proved helpful for all, through this we are now able to easily access to our bank accounts or do payments anywhere. In the current situation, without digitalization, there were so many problems faced by the population as due to COVID every sector was closed industries, companies, schools, colleges and all and it would have not been possible for anyone to move ahead without online classes or work from home facilities. Going ahead there has been a huge benefit to the government due to this, now they can easily get all the taxes. Further due to this anyone can apply easily for any form or scholarship.

So, digitalization is helpful and we are on the verge of digitalization.

Digitalization in India will be benefitting the citizens of India most along with the government. It would be a faster, safer and more reliable mode of exchange of currency. There would be a tremendous decrease in the crime rate which includes paper currency like black money, looting, pickpocketing. It would make life easy and similar as people need not carry any paper money for shopping, hospital, hotels, shops etc. The government will be benefited as they could keep track of digital money more easily as it would connect to their bank account and the government will have details.

The main objective of Digital India campaign is to increase internet connectivity, improve infrastructure, reduce paperwork and provide electronic government services to Indian citizens to make India a digitally empowered country. This campaign will not only help boost the economy of the country but Indians will connect with the whole world, their communication with their relatives, friends and family members will become instant and easy. Internet users using social media and advanced technology will find a medium to share thoughts and ideas with the world. This campaign will run under the umbrella of Internet, all the cities and rural areas of the country will be connected with high speed internet services. This will help Indians to improve their standards by gaining knowledge, skills and technical know-how from the Internet.

Digital India can be good and bad at the same time.

Digital India is benefitting all the people except those who are not literate about these facts, especially in rural areas.

Digital India is beneficial in saving lot of time and making things easier.

But at the same time, there is a risk of uncertainity or dependency for example - theft of mobile phones or disconnectivity or battery discharge that can lead to complicating transactions and feeling helpless because of dependency on such a platform.

We know that everything has a good side and a bad side, the thing is to what we will accept. Digitalising according to me is a very good thing that gives me my education. For a financial weaker student like me who wants to study with minimum expenses, that is possible only because of the online educational platform. But some uneducated people who won't understand the concept of digitalising face some problems but day by day they will get to know everything.

We also can buy from small pins to big vehicles from online shopping just by sitting in home and that is most important in these pandemic days.

I love another change also, people can apply for any governmental scheme or any help from the government in an online site rather than to run again and again to the office of people like politician (Sarapancha, mayor, MLA, MP etc.

Digitalising gives us almost every benefit of possibility but sometimes We also face some consequences like cyber crime, bankruptcy, fake calls and DMs with bad languages etc. Students and children now getting too addicted to online videos and all, that is quite disappointing.

But overall we have to accept the good things like a responsible citizens of India.

Digital India is a great initiative Supported by our Prime Minister Shree Narendra Damodar Das Modi Ji in almost every speech delivered by him.

When we talk about its benefits then we have many points in every aspect.

Like Online Education.

* Online Complaints System (FIR and many).
* Online Banking and Payments systems.

And Social Interaction and Overall Development etc.

When we talk about Education then we all are familiar with the fact that earlier it was very difficult to become a graduate not only because of social differences but also because of fewer study materials and few teachers and educational institutions and now in every house, we have a graduate because these days Education has become easy with MOOCs and ICT. We all have a smartphone and many study materials available online also we have some educational initiatives like SWAYAM PRABHA which have made education available to all of India in different languages broadcasted on televisions. When we talk about its benefits then we can say that the rural sector has been influenced a lot.

Similarly, Online complaints systems like FIR and other types of complaints have made it easy to interact with the government Even though I have my own experience with it. As we know when we are rich there are many to help us but very few are there for the poor one. Actually, I got my Ration Card seized by my Ration provider then I did a complaint on UPGovt official site for Ration. Then just before 1 week my Ration provider got a shock and started calling me and persuading me to come and have a ration and to take my complaint back. Earlier I tried to communicate with other authorities but couldn't resolve my problem but the online complaints system made it easy for me. So we can say that these are very beneficial to save our time without vising locations and requesting those authorities to consider our complaints, we can simply make complaints online and now we have an online FIR system too in legal aspects.

Digitization has made it easy to go cashless anywhere we want without any fear of physical harm and theft as well as we can make payments for electricity bills, and LIC premium payments with the help of net banking. Now, we don't need to go and make a line to withdraw money for any kind of payment. Now we can simply pay.

Anywhere and anytime in a few seconds. But there are few technical so we have cyber crimes etc but also helpful in detecting people's income and hence made it easy for income tax authorities to track people's transactions.

Social interaction and communication systems had made it easy to interact globally through various social platforms and people get to share their thoughts and opinion on different kinds of issues which helps us be more productive and thoughtful with an open mind. It plays a key role for a democratic country like India in criticising govt for its works.

When we talk about its benefits then we have a huge list of benefits to all Indians but had been the most beneficial to especially the rural part of India in crossing the continuum between rural and urban towards urbanization.

Thank you.

Digital money Digital India what is this mean?

A person can share even a rupee with digital money and the main important feature is it is a contactless and less time taking process because in this busy life, I think everyone is now using smartphones at least once in any house. We can make use of this feature nowadays everything becoming online even it comes to household shopping or daily needs (like food, clothes and etc).

As you people have seen covid the pandemic after the contactless process became very successful. By this digital money digital rupee can have a chance to become an international common fund transfer currency in the international market.

But we have a problem of facing financial frauds like cyber-attacks for the government need to provide better security for digital currency platform I think this would help a lot of poor people to be part of digitalisation and make India a better country.

Digital India is a campaign launched by prime minister Narendra Modi ji on 1 July 2015. The motto of this initiative is 'Power to empower '. The objective of this campaign includes increasing the reach of technology to the rural areas by providing better internet connectivity, digitalising money transactions, education etc and many more thus making India a digitally empowered nation.

As far as now this campaign had bring many positive changes and improvements in various sectors.

Now most of the population is doing online payments, we see QR codes pasted in cafes, on vegetable vendors shop, in other many places almost everywhere in the market. People can go out without their wallet and can do payment easily with their mobile.

Digitalisation attract investment of many domestic and foreign companies to invest in making smartphones and digital tools as the production increase now most of the household have atleast one smartphone there which is the necessary tool to be digital.

Students can learn online we see in the covid times when schools get closed and students were unable to get education physically then this digitalisation helps to make online learning possible.

Also people can order various types of product online to save the time of going into the market.

As digitalisation have many there are Some areas to concerning about like cyber crime as in the process of like doing online payments some people come across with frauds and face loss of money. Due to such cases some people even afraid to adopt digital methods so it is necessary that government take care of such concensus, provide cyber protection and ensure safe and secure digital platform.

Also, people can be aware of such fraud people and can save themselves from any loss.

Overall digital India is a successful campaign and by adopting digital means of operating and preventing its drawbacks India can emerge as a powerful and empowered digital nation.

Hello everyone, before digging into the topic, I want to introduce myself first I am Ayush.

I feel very fortunate to initiate such a great topic Digital India. So, in my point of view, digitization is a great step to make ourselves more technical and helps us to make our work more efficient. Digital India is spreading in several sectors. If I am talking about education sectors students' fee submission, students' attendance, teachers' attendance, etc important works are done now digitally very efficiently. An online transaction can be considered an effective step to make true the dream of cashless India.

Various government sectors now serving their services to people digitally whether it may be Aadhar card-related work, Pan card, etc, now because of digitalization there is no need to stand in a long queue for hours.

So, in conclusion, digital India makes us faster and makes the way we work very efficient.