Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDSA) is a new upcoming scheme which has been approved by the union cabinet on 8th February 2017.Rs.2,351,38 crore aims to make 6 crore rural households digitally literate by March 2019. The union cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister approved the scheme with an outlay of Rs.2,351,38 for implementation till march 2019 under the Digital India Initiative.

In last few months we have seen Indian government working real hard towards promoting use of digital technologies all across the country. Government has clearly shown its plan towards upcoming trends.

The scheme would be launched very soon because the government aims to train about 25 lakh candidates within the current financial year. Out of six crore targeted 2.75 crore will be trained in FY 2017-18 and rest 3 crore in FY 2018-19. It is expected to be the world’s largest digital literacy program launched. It is implemented under the overall supervision of Ministry of Electronics and government is going to use the IT to accomplish this program with states and union territories through their designated state implementing Agencies, District e-governance Society etc.

IMPLEMENTATION

It would be implemented across the country and to ensure the equitable geographical reach the government would encourage registration of about 200-300 candidates by each of the 2.5 lakh gram panchayats.

TRAINING

Sending and receiving e-mails, Browse internet

Making digital payments, Searching information on internet

Accessing Government information

Basic IT application

Digital access devices such as Smartphone and tablets

The main aim is to create literacy in rural area. So every year they will took 200-300 lakh people from Gram Panchayats to literate them. It is all about making rural area literate about digital transactions. It mainly target the rural houses that don’t have a internet connection or anyone among the family haven’t used computer services yet. Only about 1.8 crore rural households have a computer out of the total 16.85 crore as per the 71st NSSO Survey on Education 2014, thus a significant number of rest 15 crore households are likely to be digitally illiterate.

The literate people would be able to use the mobile banking or net banking for cashless transactions thus contributing to the cashless India initiative of Central government.

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