Digital India programme News
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said that India's digital journey focused on empowerment, inclusion and digital transformation and its positive impact is being felt in all aspects of the lives of Indian citizens.
The government had on August 28 announced e-mail service for its five million personnel in English and Hindi in accordance with the e-mail policy, which bars government employees from using private e-mail services due to security reasons.
Launching the NG-OTN here, Minister of State for Communications Manoj Sinha lauded the BSNL for upgrading its network to provide modern technology-based Ultra Fast Broadband services to the country.
Pitching for rapid movement towards digitisation of the economy, Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Sunday said the government's digital initiative is crucial to curb the black market.
Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday invited Japanese companies to explore investment opportunities in India and highlighted the Centre's various reform initiatives to boost infrastructure landscape in the country.
Apex industry body ASSOCHAM has suggested the Union Government to link the India business process outsourcing promotion scheme (IBPS) with direct tax benefit."Government should allow assesses to claim depreciation on assets funded by subsidy under the IBPS," highlighted an ASSOCHAM pre-budget recommendation submitted to the Centre.
With increased 4G and 3G penetration, the Internet user base in India is rapidly growing and is expected to double to 600 million users by 2020 from the current 343 million, said a study on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched MUDRA Bank (Micro Units Development Refinance Agency) in April to boost funding of small businesses which are the catalysts of employment in the country.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella selects Varanasi for experimenting technology pilot for the ambitious Digital India programme.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on July 1 launch the ambitious 'Digital India' programme with top industry leaders like Mukesh Ambani, Satya Nadella, Cyrus Mistry and Azim Premji in attendance.
Telecom Secretary Rakesh Garg has stressed upon the need to improve decision making and directed that administrative action be taken against officials delaying the project.
The project is part of Digital India programme under which the government aims to cover cities with population of over 1 million and tourist destinations with wifi services by December 2015.
Amid growing use of IT, the government today said it will step up cyber security measures under Digital India programme starting with a Rs 800 crore centre that will help people check and clean their computer system from viruses and other malwares.
Loading...