The Digital India programme has great potential of ensuring digital integration of Government and citizens through innovative ICT initiatives and services. It aspires at ensuring good governance to citizens by shoring up e-governance initiatives and digital infrastructure at various levels.
The focus of Digital India is on three key areas: Digital infrastructure as a public utility, Governance & Services on demand and Digital empowerment of citizens. It seeks to leverage broadband highways, universal access to mobile connectivity, public internet access, electronic delivery of services, information for all and IT for jobs for the benefit of citizens.
A number of initiatives and projects have been launched under Digital India namely; Digital Locker, MyGov- the citizen collaboration platform, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Mobile app, eSign framework, Online Registration System (ORS), National Scholarships Portal, eHospital etc. All these projects have become quite popular and NIC has contributed to these projects, in one way or other.
With the advancement of technology and NIC being the premier ICT organization of the government, the expectation and demand for its services is ever increasing. Therefore by translating challenges into opportunities, we should strive to accelerate the efforts to offer innovative solutions in ICT to augment better governance.
Many new promising developments through digital technologies are underway. Together, we need to improve and strengthen our capabilities and bring innovative breakthroughs in ICT development in the country.
I wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2016.
- J.S. Deepak