Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative aims to bolster the technical infrastructure for e-governance and e-commerce in the country, and also hopes to reach out to 250,000 panchayats, enlarge the scope of citizen delivery services and allow a greater participation of citizens as part of the Centre’s ‘minimum government, maximum governance’ approach. Along with Make in India and the National Skills Development Mission, the government wants to ensure that India has both skills and technology at its disposal.
The Digital India strategy can improve information communication technologies (ICTs) and that, in turn, can help the country improve its social indices, helping us meet the sustainable development goals (SDGs), which would be signed at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in September.
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