The government will soon launch another program, Digital Village, to give services like health and education in villages with the assistance of technology.The program would be taken off in 100 towns at first and will be extended later, Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Monday.
"We will unleash another critical activity – Digital Village. According to my understanding, it will be a gatherer driven activity. We propose in any case 100 towns and extend it later," Prasad said at the Digital India Awards occasion in New Delhi.
He said an authority with the help concerned local bodies may choose a town to give health, training, and other virtual world services through Wi-Fi network.
The minister offered officers at the occasion to join genius effectively in government's digital activity went for changing the nation.
"We have prepared 18 lakh individuals over a traverse of four days. We may scale it (advanced payments preparing) up in January," he said.
The government has set an objective of preparing 1.25 crore people on digital payments by March 31, 2017.
Minister of State for Law and IT P Chaudhary acknowledged National Informatics Center and said that there are in regards to 8,000 sites conveying data about government work and encouraging exchanges.
"I might want to recommend a portion of the ranges where we need to perform. We are long ways behind in the era of Intellectual Property. In the range of digital security, we must be expert dynamic and not just be responsive," Chaudhary said.
IT secretary Aruna Sundararajan said this is the first run through Indians are having admittance to the government without go-betweens.
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