The Digital India programme was launched on July 1st 2015, to avail digital delivery services for Indian citizens. The programme later proved itself highly successful. An expansion of the Digital India programme was approved by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi who chaired the Union Cabinet on August 16th, 2023. The programme which was announced for expansion with an outlay of rupees 14,903 crores, will give a lift to the digital economy of India and is expected to drive access to various services and support India’s IT and electronic ecosystem.

This would enable the following:

1. 6.25 lakh IT professionals will be re-skilled and up-skilled under the FutureSkills Prime Programme
2. 2.65 lakh persons will be trained in information security under the Information Security & Education Awareness Phase (ISEA) Programme
3. 540 additional services will be available under the Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) app/ platform. At present, over 1,700 services are already available on UMANG
4. 9 more supercomputers will be added under National Super Computer Mission. This is in addition to 18 supercomputers already deployed
5. Bhashini, the AI-enabled multi-language translation tool (currently available in 10 languages), will be rolled out in all 22 scheduled 8 languages.
6. Modernisation of the National Knowledge Network (NKN), which connects 1,787 educational institutions
7. The digital document verification facility under DigiLocker will now be available to MSMEs and other organisations.
8. 1,200 startups will be supported in Tier 2/3 cities
9. 3 Centres of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence on health, agriculture and sustainable cities will be set up
10. Cyber-awareness courses for 12 crores college students
11. New initiatives in the area of cyber security, including the development of tools and integration of more than 200 sites with the National Cyber Coordination Centre