HIGHLIGHTS OF DIGITAL INDIA

                                       Highlights of Digital India

(1)Digital india is a massive technical push to provide E-governance and Universal phone connectivity across the country,bringing in large investment in technology manufacturing.

 (2)The PM described digital India as a road map to change India’s future as this has to be done as early as possible or the world will pass us by.

(3)E-Governance is going to change into M-Governance... M is not Modi Governance, it is mobile governance,"

 (4)Reliance Industries Ltd plans to invest about 2.5 lakh crore ($39.3 billion) in digital initiatives.

 (5)Push to connect India and drive a national fibre optic network to those outside large towns and cities

(6)Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that during Digital India Week, the government expects "billions of dollars in investment", critical for a government that needs to create more jobs quickly.

(7)The government plan aims to stop net imports of technology and electronics by 2020, while creating over 100 million jobs.

(8)A growing economy and falling handset prices make India one of the fastest growing smartphone markets in the world, and can be harness that to drive  social development in fields like education and health.

(9)Akamai Technology ranked India’s internet speed 115^th globally whereas India has little over 100million broadband subscriber to be overcome by adopting/digitizing india.

(10)At the event today, Cyrus Mistry said the Tata Group would hire 60,000 IT professionals this year, and Kumaramangalam Birla said his Aditya Birla Group will invest Rs. 44,500 crore ($7 billion) in the next five years in the infra and digital space.