The ‘Digital India’ week was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday in the presence of senior ministerial colleagues and top industry honchos, a move that will give a boost to governance and jobs.
To know more about the campaign, its strengths and its flaws, here are six stories that you cannot miss.
- An $18 billion campaign which is going to be strengthened by the government to provide fast internet connection to all, by connecting over 250,000 villagers in India by 2019.
- The government's tech push to provide electronic governance and universal phone connectivity across the country, aims to bring in large investments in technology manufacturing.
- The digital week will involve citizen awareness programmes across the country.
- Net imports of technology and electronics will be stopped by 2020, thus creating over 100 million jobs.
- The average Internet speed of India was ranked amongst 115th globally.
- They were at the most only 100 million broadband subscribers at the end of April, according to the sector regulator, which considers Internet connections with minimum download speeds of 512 kbps
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