 "payments, smartpones, digital, apps, finance, fintech")
Digital India was envisaged as an umbrella scheme that covered many aspects of making India a digital-first society. The initial outlay was Rs 100,000 crore in ongoing schemes and Rs 13,000 crore in new schemes. Here is a look at how the scheme has fared so far:
Broadband Connectivity
- 156,000 of the target of 250,000 village panchayats have been connected with broadband
- Cabinet has approved public private partnership mode for the roll-out of BharatNet project for broadband services in villages
- PM Modi has set a target of connecting 600,000 villages via broadband by May 2023
Universal access to mobile connectivity
- Reliance Jio’s entry in 2016 helped
