Digital India: Whom Does it Benefit?

Digital India stands for degitalizing the services which we are using on the daily basis to make us more efficient and more productive and for convenience too. It is clear that degitalizing anything involves application of artificial machinery like computers, etc.

If the question is about benefits, yes somewhere everybody is getting benefit of digitalization because it doesn't have any discrimination of its use. For example, because of digitalization, it's very simple to transfer money from one bank to another bank in a fraction of second that was not possible earlier. So it's not bad to say that everyone on this planet can get the benefits of digitalization.

Digital India is a great initiative by the Indian government. It gave so many benefits like cash-free transactions, low broker fee, fast transactions, national and international news and information on our hand, the government can easily spread there policy.

The concept of digital India brings very important benefits to the people itself. Ranging from online ticket booking to online money transactions. It has made a lot of stuff easier for people. Now people don't have to wait in a queue to pay their electricity bills, phone bills, bills at the grocery and the list go on. No doubt it is ultimately benefiting people.

Some basic steps taken under the Digital India initiative are digital transactions, digital identification, E-governance, digital and electronic infrastructures, etc. These platforms for digitalization greatly impacted our society especially the middle class. The digital transaction benefited the middle-class businessmen who earlier used to accept only cash, nowadays accepts transaction through various transaction platforms such as paytm, googlepay, phonepay and so on, in a mush easier and faster way.

The problem of low on cash, is now almost vanished as now you can any amount at any time without any delay. The digital India initiative also focuses on providing a single unique identification to every citizen, linked to every account you have, for easy identification using a singe id. The E-Governance plays an imp. Role in making a transparent and strong interface b/w gov. And citizens, thus it is easy to provide all gov. Facilities and schemes to all in an easier and faster way.

Developing all digital and electronic gadgets and software in own country rather than importing from others would only benefits our citizens and country's economy, by creating jobs for middleclass and advancement in digital products. Therefore Gov. Is supporting entrepreneur for creating and developing own software and digital products that would help India towards being a largest digital economy.

Our prime minister Modi brought a good concept to make India digital. With the help of digitalization, people can easily transfer their money on a person to another person with the help of internet along with this people can easily download government forms or any other forms through online as well as they can pay government bills like electric bill water bill tax, etc, Disadvantage is in India most are uneducated especially from a rural area they don't know how to transfer money online.

It has both pros and cons it benefits most of the country but the people who have cash would loose by listening that don't have the change so this way Around per average a person leaves around 5 rs it becomes a loss of 700cr per month.

Hello everyone self Rahul let's discuss about digital India.

The merits of digital India are we can able to pay all types of bills from home itself. We can able to apply all exams from the system and we can able to get the hall tickets from the system. We can able to pay the chalan of the vehicles without visiting the police station. With the use of digital India, we can able to order fruits, vegetables, food, accesories, etc. In future, we can able to order the medicine's also. There is no fear of thief's in Digital payments.

Let us discuss about the demerits of digital India. In India, there are many people who are uneducated and they didn't know about digital India. According to the payment mode there are alot of fake apps for the payments due to that the money reviver may loss. The money may be in the pending issues. Due to the digital India the illiterate people can not develop their business due to all prefer to use the online shopping.

Hello, it's Mangesh.

In my opinion, digital India is a great initiative taken by our government. The benefit of digitalization is unlimited as it saves time, cost, etc. But the point is that the lot of people of our country does not about the digitalization so the government should before going in to, they should create the awareness, what are there advantage, how this helpful to us. Ones they know how this will impact their life than automatically uses will increases. Currently, most of the use of digitalization are taken by high or middle-level groups, so we should encourage the lower level & backward section to get the benefit of this digitalization. Ultimately this will help to grow our economy.

Yes, friend, I agree with your opinion. But as per my opinion our India doing best because as we know that technologically we are best but as per the development we are so lagging. We know that as compare to other countries like. Take an example of Japan what they developed their military with advance technology as well as digital school and so on.

Let's see what it is all about.

Digital India is an initiative by the Indian government to get India digitalized. To make everybody rely on the internet and to do most of the work is possible, payment through the internet and sending some crucial data to others quickly, as well as getting their government ids and other papers digitally.

So the main focus of the government is on these three aspects :

i. Development of stable and secure digital infrastructure

To get digital what a country needs is an infrastructure to have fast speed internet in cheap. So infrastructure related to it must be developed. Also, it must have other facilities like money transfer so the internet must be secured.

These are aspects within it :

---- High-speed internet as a core utility
---- Cradle-to-grave digital identity
---- Participation in digital & financial space through mobiles & banking
---- Easy access to a Common Service Centre (CSC)
---- Shareable private space on a public cloud

ii. Universal digital literacy.

India cannot become digital until everybody knows how to operate the internet and computers. So a great initiative by the government took is UNIVERSAL DIGITAL LITERACY. Here the government aims to make at least one member from each home to get digital literacy. The program is free.

iii. Deliverance of government services digitally

Now, if we have internet, we are ready to dive into the digital world then why the government should remain behind; after all, it was what the government wanted and what today's societies need is. So the government is now ready to provide every essential document, announcement through the internet, via youtube ad or official news channel through Rajya sabha tv and otherways.

So all this is what the government wanted. Isn't it? Now what? What are our benefits? What do we lose by it? Let us discuss this.

Advantages :

1. Today, a large population has internet. So we can connect with whom we want.
2. We can find our lost ids on the internet in seconds.
3. We don't have to waste time in long queues in the railway station, banks, ATMs, etc. to book ticket, transfer cash and withdrawing money.
4. If we don't have money, no problem. UPI to the rescue. Every seller has UPI now.
5. It is true that everybody now has their mobile phone with them. Now you won't have to carry documents from one place to another because now you can have it on your phone, and if needed, you can get its hardcopy anywhere.
6. People are getting digital literacy for free through government schemes. Now, one will learn, and they will teach their family members.
7. This reduces paperwork as well, (sigh) trees will be saved.

Disadvantages :

Jobs cut will occur. Unemployment will increase.
Personal data is with the government. We don't know when they can sell our data.

So is it good for us? It seems to be good until unless our data is not purely safe. It must be out of reach from everybody. it must be private such that even the government or even our parents can't have it. If it is not that safe, no matter how digitalized the world gets, the insecurity will always prevail in public. You must study about Edward Snowden. You will find something to ponder upon.

Thank you.