Govt. to form Digital India Corporation to drive Digital India

The government has given a go ahead for forming a more focused body to drive Digital India through Digital India Corporation (DIC).

Speaking at the three years achievements of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Electronics & IT and Law & Justice said, "Digital India Corporation will be a more focused body under Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology and will focus on strategy support to ministry/departments of centre/states for carrying the mission of Digital India."

The Digital India Corporation will focus on doing capacity building for e-Governance projects, promoting best practices, encouraging public private partnership (PPP), nurturing innovation and technology in the long run. The Corporation will also collaborate and mobilise partnerships with the industry, to evolve revenue based models for services delivery.

To undertake these functions, Digital India Corporation will attract talent and resources both from government and market. The judicious mix of talent will ensure that government is equipped with a broad spectrum of resources for successful design of Digital India related projects.

Broad responsibilities of Digital India Corporation include:

Provide leadership and support to government of India through Meit and to steer and anchor Digital India and promote digital payments through various medium.

To support MeitY in all its initiatives with policy and implementation related issues concerning various ongoing programmes and schemes in ICT domain and new initiatives necessitated as part of the Digital India vision.

To support ministries/departments, both at centre as well as states and other stakeholders in crafting progressive e-Governance strategies, to promote accountability, efficiency, efficacy and transparency.

To source and make available pool of specialized technically skilled manpower for hardware, software, networks, cyber security and laws, standards, quality and testing etc. in ICT domain to ministries/departments on charge basis under the central and state government.

To promote innovation and evolve models for empowerment of citizens through Digital initiatives and to promote participatory governance and citizen engagement across the government through various platforms including social media.

To establish the National e-Governance Academy and to put in place an institutional mechanism for capacity building of government and its agencies, including assessment and evolution of suitable training packages/modules for capacity building for the centre and states for human capital formation to enhance competitiveness for successful implementation of various projects/schemes in ICT domain to cut on cost and time over run.

The board of Media lab Asia under the chairmanship of Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Electronics & IT and Law & Justice has approved on 16th May 2017 the proposal for fully realigning the purpose and objectives in line with Digital India vision. The approval of the board ensure that the Digital India Corporation with a complete restructuring of its administrative components, will play the role of a leader in e-Governance space and take forward the projects and activities of Digital India and facilitate all stakeholders to realise its goals.