Digital India

Umbrella programme launched in July 2015 for digital infrastructure, services and literacy — digital public infrastructure, capacity-building, and payments. Ministry releases report about 4 lakh crore digital transactions in FY 2021-22, and the Cabinet approved a ₹14,903 crore expansion of the programme in 2023.

Category: Digital & Innovation
Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Launched: 2015

Stated goals

Digital infrastructure as a utility, services on demand, and digital empowerment — from broadband and DBT rails to reskilling under the expanded programme.

Target beneficiaries

Citizens and businesses using digital services and payments

Fact-checks on this scheme

Lacks contextSet up a National Optical-Fibre Network up to the village level; and Wi-Fi zones in public areas. Deployment of broadband in every village would be a thrust area.Claimed by Bharatiya Janata Party on 7 Apr 2014
Lacks contextBJP aims to nurture a Digital India - making every household and every individual digitally empowered… focus on increasing the penetration and usage of broadband across the country… initiate a National e-Governance Plan to cover every Government office from the centre to the panchayats… digitization of Government records will be taken up on top priority so that they are easily accessible… mandate digitization of all government work to reduce corruption and delays.Claimed by Bharatiya Janata Party on 7 Apr 2014