Top 10 initiatives under ‘Digital India Week’ taken by the Indian
Government
The ambitious ‘Digital India’ project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
total overlay of Rs 1 lakh crore Vision to transform India into a digitally
empowered society and knowledge economy, across the ICT
infrastructure, electronics manufacturing, e-governance services,
capacity building, and job creation. Many initiatives planned under
Digital India Program have gone live. The Department of Electronics &
IT has implemented the following initiatives.
1. Digital Locker:
The Government is expected to roll out a national depository that
will hold the important certificates and identity proof records. Each
private locker will store all the important documents of users,
which are digitally verified by the government. Now you can
facilitate to verify through link of digital folder copies while
needed.
2. Digital Life Certificates:
The ‘Jeevan Pramaan’ schemes for retired government employees.
They produce digitally Aadhar number and biometric details of
their existence to authorities for continuity of pension every year.
It will be uploaded to a central database on real-time basis,
ultimately enabling the pension disbursing agency to access a
digital life certificate.
3. Digital Boost to MGNREGA:
Now the rural job scheme MNREGA will through mobile
monitoring system. An implementation agency with live data from
the worksites is now in online and real-time updating of data base.
4. Twitter Samvad:
It will enable the citizens to informative about new government
initiatives and actions and service through tweets and SMS.
5. Madad (Help):
The portal ‘Madad’ will enable Indian citizens living abroad to file
consular grievances online to address the complaints promptly. Its
portal remains of any National.
6. Cyclone Warning System:
To create an SMS-based weather information and disaster alert
system will be to officials involved in Administration, District
Magistrates/Collectors besides fisherman, farmers, and general
public.
7. Online Facility for File Single Return:
An online facility for firms/companies to file a common or single
unified return on its portal to comply with as many as eight labor
laws in one to proceed.
8. Online facility to Issue PAN Card in 48 hours:
PAN card will be issued within 48 hours of applying through
online.
9. eMoney:
Provide electronic money order service through Department of
Posts (DoP) by December. This service will enable send money
next day to the doorstep in secure and fast ways to the people. One
time maximums of Rs 5,000 through e-money order.
10.
PRAGATI:
It aims to monitoring and reviewing programs and projects of both
Central and State Government initiatives and also addressing
common man’s grievances.