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DIGITAL IN
DIGITAL INDIA: EMPOWERING
MPOWER
DIA: E
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THE COMMON MAN
THE COMMON MAN

Who better understands the power of digital than Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

who is working to empower the digital economy and citizens in the face of a
global crisis? As a result, on July 1, 2015, Digital India was launched, empowering
ordinary citizens. It provides facilities that make citizens' lives easier.

Common Service Centre: More than 400
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government and business services are provided
in rural areas by village level entrepreneurs. One of the great things that the Digital
There are 5.31 lakh centres across the country,
of which 4.20 lakh are at the gram panchayat India campaign has done is to bridge
level. the gap between cities and villages.
UMANG App: More than 1570 government Today's India is moving towards that
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services and more than 22,000 bill payment direction in which citizens will not need
services are available on this app. to come directly to the government for
DigiLocker: It facilitates the paperless
n documents or for the benefits of the
availability of public documents to the public. schemes.
This has been made available to over 117 crore -Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
users, 2167 issuing organisations, and over 532
crore documents. n The Semicon India programme was approved for
More than 53.67 lakh beneficiaries are certified the development of semiconductor and display
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under the National Digital Literacy Mission and manufacturing environments in the country at a
Digital Saksharta Abhiyan. total outlay of Rs 76 thousand crores.
India aims to be among the top 3 countries in
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the world in electronics manufacturing, with a
target of producing 300 billion US dollars by
2025.

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