This Article is From Jul 01, 2015

For PM Modi's Digital India Push, An Audience of 10,000

For PM Modi's Digital India Push, An Audience of 10,000

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will present the government's roadmap to digitise India when he inaugurates Digital India Week at a big function in Delhi today. 10,000 guests, including top business leaders like Mukesh Ambani of Reliance and the Tata Group's Cyrus Mistry, are expected to attend.

Here are the latest developments in the story:

  1. The Prime Minister will unveil various government schemes under the Digital India programme like the Digital Locker, e-education and e-health at the event. The digital locker aims at minimising use of physical documents and enabling sharing of e-documents across agencies.

  2. The PM will hold a video conference with two village panchayats in Madhya Pradesh. An official said ten village panchayats, in a 35-km area from Indore, will be connected with high-speed internet service under the project today.

  3. Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said the government expects "billions of dollars in investment," during the week.

  4. Among other top business leaders who have confirmed participation are Sunil Bharti Mittal of Bharti, Chairman of Sterlite Technologies Anil Agarwal and Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumaramangalam. Airbus India and Wipro will also attend.

  5. Confirmation has also been received from foreign forms like Nidec Corporation of Japan and Taiwan-based, Delta Electronic, whose CEO Ping Cheng will attend.

  6. Announcing the event, Mr Prasad said his ministry also reached out to Microsoft's Bill Gates and CEO Satya Nadella along with Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy, but they will not be able to attend due to other engagements.

  7. The Digital India initiative, approved last year, includes projects worth over Rs. 1,00,000 crore to transform the country into a digitally empowered knowledge economy.

  8. The projects aim at ensuring that government services are available to citizens electronically so that people get the benefit of the latest information and communication technology.

  9. Digital India aims to connect all gram panchayats by broadband internet. Work to connect 335 village panchayats is nearing completion, an official said.

  10. Digital India Week will also see school children and others all over the country introduced to modern telecommunication techniques.



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