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Nation 7 Years of Digital India

Unified Payments Interface (UPI): Rupay Payment Gateway:
Through a single mobile application, accounts Rupay Payment Gateway is India's first global
from multiple banks can be linked on this digital payment network. RuPay cards are used by 70 crore
payment platform. Till February 2022, 229 banks Indians. The RuPay payment gateway, which is
have joined the service of UPI. simple to use, is available in Singapore, the United

Mobile Handset Manufacturing: Arab Emirates, Bhutan, and Nepal.
India is now the world's second largest producer E-District Mission Mode Project (MMP):
of mobile handsets. In 2014, there were only two In 709 districts across the country, 3916 e-district
factories producing cellular phones and parts, services have been launched.
which increased to 200 by 2021.

Digital India plans on the unveil Powerful steps in supercomputers

Supercomputers are the key to every country's
DIGITAL CURRENCY: The announcement success in terms of innovation, research,
to launch the Central Bank Digital and development. This is why, as part of the
Currency, i.e., the Digital Rupee, was National Super Computing Mission (NSM),
made in the current fiscal year's budget. the government set a goal of providing high
This digital rupee, which is currently our computing facilities to 74 institutes by the end
physical currency, will be controlled and of 2022. Under the NSM programme, the Center
monitored by the RBI. for Development of Advanced Computing and
the Ministry of Electronics and Information
E-PASSPORT SERVICE: The government Technology collaborated to develop the Param
has announced that citizens will receive Siddhi AI Supercomputer. Built in 2015, this
e-Passports in the current fiscal year. It is the country's most powerful and fastest
has also begun the procurement of the supercomputer. It is number 63 on the list of the
chip for the e-Passport, which includes an world's top 500 supercomputers.
embedded Radio Frequency Identification This decade will see India's digital technology
(IFI) chip and an antenna embedded as capabilities significantly improve and its share
an inlay in the back cover. of the global digital economy grow. The world
will see significant changes as a result of
5G WILL BE LAUNCHED THIS YEAR: A 5G technology, which India is preparing for
Rs 224 crore indigenous 5G test bed has by developing its own 5G technology. Digital
also been established to experiment and empowerment is also empowering India's youth,
demonstrate 5G applications. Now nod who are working with the government to take the
for auction of 5G spectrum has been country to new heights. Digital India is assisting
given by Cabinet . There are plans to in making this decade "India's Techade."
launch the 5G network gradually in 2022.

empowered will make India the 'Techade' of this Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan
decade. Those who previously claimed that the poor has been approved with one person per household
are uninterested in Digital India and cheap data are to bring digital literacy to rural India by involving 6
now witnessing the power of Digital India.merging crore households. This scheme has enrolled 5.78
in the 21st century. crore candidates, of whom 4.90 crore have been
According to the NITI Aayog report 'Strategy trained.
@ 75 for New India,' there is a need to bridge the The government promulgated the Information
digital divide in India by 2022-2023. Keeping this in Technology (Intermediate Guidelines and Digital
mind, the government has prioritised digital literacy Media Code of Conduct) Rules 2021, also known
since 2014. Two schemes have been implemented, as IT Rules 2021 on February 25, 2021. The
namely the National Digital Literacy Mission and aim of the rules is to ensure an open, secure,
the Digital Saksharta Abhiyan, with 53.67 lakh reliable, and accountable Internet for Internet and
beneficiaries certified until March 31, 2022. The digital users.

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