37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
The Narendra Modi government embarked on an ambitious programme to bridge India’s digital divide, connect thousands of villages to the Internet and create millions of jobs. Digital India is aimed at transforming the country into a digitally empowered society and a knowledge economy.
While a broader dimension to e-governance was imparted in the mid-90s, the Modi government realised their inadequacy and loopholes in implementation and launched the programme in order to transform the entire ecosystem of public services through the use of information and technology.
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