Cabinet approves expansion of Digital India programme to boost digital economy of India
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In an effort to boost the digital economy of India, drive digital access to services and support India’s IT and electronics ecosystem, the Union Cabinet has approved the expansion of the Digital India programme with an outlay of Rs 14,903 crore. Digital India programme was launched on July 1, 2015 to enable digital delivery of services to citizens. It has proved to be a very successful program.
Under the Digital India programme, 6.25 lakh IT professionals will be re-skilled and up-skilled under the FutureSkills Prime Programme; 2.65 lakh persons will be trained in information security under the Information Security & Education Awareness Phase (ISEA) Programme and 540 additional services will be available under the Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) app/ platform. At present over 1,700 services are already available on UMANG.
Besides, this programme would enable modernisation of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) which connects 1,787 educational institutions. Digital document verification facility under DigiLocker will now be available to MSMEs and other organisations; 1,200 startups will be supported in Tier 2/3 cities and 3 Centres of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence on health, agriculture and sustainable cities will be set up.
