The Government of India has launched a mega programme entitled “Digital India” to prepare India for a knowledge future. The focus of the programme is transformative. India Today + Information Technology = India Tomorrow. The programme focuses on making technology central to enabling change. It is an umbrella programme and covers all sectors, pulls together existing schemes. The Digital India Vision is centred around three key areas: Digital Infrastructure as a utility to every citizen; governance and service on demand; and digital empowerment of citizen. To provide Digital Infrastructure as a utility to every citizen some of the strategies are: high speed internet as a core utility, cradle to grave digital identity- unique, lifelong, online and authenticable; Mobile phone and bank account enabling participation in digital and financial space, easy access to Common Service Centre, Shareable private space on a public cloud and safe and secure cyber space. The governance and services on demand includes applications seamlessly integrated across departments and jurisdictions; services available in real time from online and mobile platform; all citizen documents to be available on the cloud- citizen not required to provide copies etc; services digitally transformed for providing ease of doing business; making financial transactions electronic and cashless and leveraging GIS for decisions support systems and development. Digital empowerment of citizens includes universal digital literacy, universally accessible digital resources, all documents/certificates to be available on cloud, availability of digital resources/services in Indian languages, collaborative digital platform to participative governance and portability of all entitlements through cloud. This is a transformative agenda and NIC has a big role in several of these. Let us all prepare for meeting the new requirement. I wish you all the best.