{"id":194211,"date":"2022-07-05T19:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=194211"},"modified":"2022-07-05T19:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:15:44","slug":"india-is-leading-the-world-in-digital-revolution-asserts-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-is-leading-the-world-in-digital-revolution-asserts-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"India is leading the world in digital revolution, asserts PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister has inaugurated several portals during the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seventh anniversary of the \u201cDigital India\u201d campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Digital India campaign?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Launched in:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> flagship programme of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>How has the Digital India campaign helped India?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital India campaign has helped save Rs 2.25 lakh crore from falling into the wrong hands in the past eight years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The transparency that has come due to Digital India has eliminated corruption at various levels adversely affecting the poor and the middle class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the last eight years, more than Rs 23 lakh crore has been transferred through Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT) to beneficiaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital India helped the government tackle the crisis arising out of Covid pandemic. For example, CoWin and Aarogya Setu are two mobile applications that helped provide 200 crore vaccine doses.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the portals launched by the Prime Minister?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Digital India Bhashini: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It aims to enable easy access to the internet and digital services in Indian languages including voice-based access. It will also help in creating content in Indian languages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 In addition to this, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it will also focus on building AI-based language technology solutions for Indian languages along with the creation of multilingual datasets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Digital India Genesis: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital India Genesis is the short for Gen-next Support for Innovative Startups. Its purpose is to create a National Deep-tech Startup Platform, in a bid to discover, support, grow and make successful startups in tier-II and tier-III cities of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MyScheme: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MyScheme is a service discovery platform facilitating access to Government Schemes. It aims to offer a one-stop search and discovery portal where users can find schemes that they are eligible for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Meri Pehchaan: I<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t is a user authentication service in which a single set of credentials provides access to multiple online applications or services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Chips to Startup(C2S) Programme: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chips-to-startup-c2s-programme-meity-invites-applications-under-the-chips-to-startup-c2s-programme-from-academia-rd-organisations-startups-and-msmes\/\"><b>Click Here to read\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Indiastack.global<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is a global repository of key projects implemented under India Stack like Aadhaar, UPI, Digilocker, Cowin Vaccination Platform, Government e-Marketplace(GeM), DIKSHA Platform and Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>I<\/b><b>ndia is leading the world in digital revolution, asserts PM Modi\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 5th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Prime Minister has inaugurated several portals during the seventh anniversary of the \u201cDigital India\u201d campaign.\u00a0 What is the Digital India campaign? Launched in: 2015 Purpose: It is a flagship programme of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. How&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-is-leading-the-world-in-digital-revolution-asserts-pm-modi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India is leading the world in digital revolution, asserts PM Modi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-194211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704936669},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}