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The government is gearing up for its next big mission, a Rs. 113,000-crore plan that aims to usher in a digital revolution by moving everything online, from education to public services to bureaucracy.
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Aptly called &lsquo;e-kranti', it comes under the Narendra Modi government's &lsquo;Digital India' initiative and is quite simply the world's most ambitious broadband project - but one that will have to overcome countless hurdles, big and small. It seeks to provide digital access to all citizens, from the rural and elderly to the poor, according to the government blueprint that HT has viewed.
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As a rapidly modernising India embarks on a drive to move governance online, bridging the so-called digital divide is essential. State entitlements, such as pensions, and public services, such as passports, will move to cloud, a computing term for universally accessible online storage space.
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The public distribution system (PDS) that supplies subsidised foodgrains under the National Food Security Law will be completely integrated with Aadhar, the cradle-to-grave digital identity card that every Indian must have. Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh already have online PDS systems.
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None of this can happen without expanding digital access. So, the Centre aims to expand its rural internet coverage to 250,000 villages by 2017 from the existing 130,000. In two years, 150,000 post offices will be transformed into multi-utility centres (providing a range of government services, banking for instance, and not just postal services). Some 250,000 government schools will get broadband and free WiFi and all schoolbooks will have e-versions.
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The disadvantages of not being digitally included are much bigger today than they were in an earlier era.
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