37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
Of all the initiatives announced by the Centre, the Digital India programme is the most ambitious, with the power to transform the lives of people as never before. The communication revolution has changed people’s lives but its possibilities have not been harnessed fully to give them easy access to public utilities, to provide services and to empower citizens. The digital divide is still very wide. Internet access and speed are very low, with only 10 crore broadband subscribers in a country of 125 crore people. But with 85 crore active mobile telephone users, there is an opportunity to leapfrog into the age of e-governance on mobile phones, short-circuiting intermediate stages. The benefits are immense. Transparency in governance, direct access to services without intermediaries, saving of costs, prevention of leakage of public funds, faster development and employment creation on a large scale are some obvious benefits. The programme will go hand in hand with other initiatives like the Make in India and the Jan Dhan scheme and will complement them.
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