Government has launched many ambitious initiatives under the Digital India Program to realize the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister to transform India into a digitally empowered nation. Under this national program, a plethora of e-Governance services were also launched to augment faster and transparent governance harnessing the global advancement of ICT and implementation of latest infrastructure setups. The government has thus taken a proactive approach to encourage innovativeness in which e-Governance services are delivered for improving citizens’ life quality continually. The digital transformation of a nation like ours is a dire necessity. But apart from the Government, the onus lies on every section of the society to bring in the positive change. It is important to note that success of many of the diverse initiatives under the Digital India Program is a result of collective and sustained efforts of its various stakeholders. Digital Locker, Jeevan Pramaan, e-Visitor, MeghRaj and Aadhaar enabled Attendance System are some of such initiatives to prove this. The innovative public participation platform “MyGov” is building a trusty partnership between citizens and Government with the help of technology for enhancing the e-Governance further. We see a remarkable rise in the accountability from various departments and much beyond providing updated government information and quality services online. With the establishment of efficient Infrastructure backbone, broadband is poised to reach every single Panchayat of the country, which will create and translate digital literacy till the grass root level covering and connecting all the citizens of India. MeitY, with the active support of NIC has been instrumental in successfully deploying many of the ICT projects in the Government, especially under the Digital India Program. Overcoming challenges through dialogues, quality thinking and timely actions can bring in many more successes. Attaining these require tremendous institutional planning at different levels along with having knowledge empowerment programs in place that are focused and sustainable. Wishing you all the very best.

  • Aruna Sundararajan