Digital India Towards Development of Agriculture and Rural Development: an Overview

It has been estimated that India would need nearly 300 million tones of food grains by 2030. In other words, by the year 2020, we may need about 122 million tones of rice, 102 million tones of wheat, 41million tones of coarse grains and 28 million tones of pulses, 143 million tones of milk. Information Technology and Digital India is involves electronic processing, storage and communication of information, where anything that can be represented in digital form is included in the term information. Macmillan dictionary of IT defines information technology as “the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a micro-electronics based combination of computing and telecommunications”. Everybody knows that agriculture is the mainstay of Indian economy. More than 55 percent of the country's populations still depend on agriculture. As of 2011, rural areas host 742 million or over 55 percent of population. About 55 percent of India's total workforce is rural. Indian agriculture has surpassed many obstacles and successfully moved from the status of being a self deficient country to a self sufficient one in food grains as well as in several other sectors of agriculture. But there are threats of this achievement being soon gaped down by the monstrous growth of population

Digital India: E-government initiative

Digital India is an initiative by the government of India, along with several other parties to provide a digital interface to the government’s services to citizens electronically, by improved online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity

Union Budget 2017-18: leading India towards a digital economy

Arun Jaitley’s Budget speech this week had a strong focus on digital economy initiatives, emphasising the Government’s resolve to increase digital transactions and reduce India’s reliance on cash. Sharique Hassan Manazir reviews the announcements, and writes that – if implemented effectively – they will undoubtedly result in significant progress towards the Digital India vision

E-governance Innovations in India

This review looked for examples of e-governance innovations in India in the following sectors: healthcare services, agricultural productivity, clean water, sanitation & hygiene, clean energy, FinTech and waste management. Many of the examples were found on the Digital India website. Digital India is a government programme aiming to “transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy”. Other examples were found highlighted in news items and a smaller number were discussed in academic literature. Many examples were identified in the health and agriculture sectors, while fewer examples were found for the other sectors and none for the clean energy sector. Searching identified Information Communication Technology (ICT) activity in these sectors which were not classed as e-governance (ie. did not have government involvement) and therefore not included. The review also found many e-governance examples not related to the sectors requested and therefore were also not included

Innovative Library Services in University Library in Digital India

It is the modern period of progress in almost every aspect of human development. Since ICT is viewed as a tool for innovating educational systems, it allows for the inclusion of new pedagogic practices that arouse students\u27 interest and motivation. In higher education, the function of academic libraries has changed dramatically. Atkinson (2001) states, The new library must be primarily a social gathering place, somewhat noisy, with plenty of coffee. This phrase implies that significant changes are expected in the academic library. This paper highlights the importance of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education. ICT enables everyone to communicate at any time and from any location. In this research paper, taking the BHU Central Library, known as Sayaji Rao Gaekwad Library, as a study, an attempt has been made to highlight the innovative library services employed in the mode of providing the library services and to highlight the impact of ICT on education

A Stronger Data Protection Regime for a Better Digital India

Introduction India's presence in the cyberspace has been propelled in to digital power narratives in the global cyber diplomacy discourse. To name a few, India's selection to chair the first group of governmental experts constituted to deliberate the issue of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and their impact on International security, and as the first non-OECD country to host the Global Conference on Cyber Space. Until recently, Digital India initiative, followed by governments ‘shove' to promote a digital market on the base of cashless transactions has been necessitating a lot of policy reboot at a purely domestic level. In India, Cyber security is the biggest threat to national security – and something needs to be done to protect our financial, strategic and civilian networks. Similarly, some form of policy needs to be implemented wisely and precisely to manoeuvre the currency of digital age viz. DATA! Statistically, India ranks second in the world in terms of the highest number of internet users which are almost 34 per cent of a total of 1.3 billion population. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.340601

A Stronger Data Protection Regime for a Better Digital India

Introduction India’s presence in the cyberspace has been propelled in to digital power narratives in the global cyber diplomacy discourse. To name a few, India’s selection to chair the first group of governmental experts constituted to deliberate the issue of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and their impact on international security, and as the first non-OECD country to host the Global Conference on Cyber Space. Until recently, Digital India initiative, followed by governments ‘shove’ to promote a digital market on the base of cashless transactions has been necessitating a lot of policy reboot at a purely domestic level. In India, Cyber security is the biggest threat to national security – and something needs to be done to protect our financial, strategic and civilian networks. Similarly, some form of policy needs to be implemented wisely and precisely to manoeuvre the currency of digital age viz. DATA! Statistically, India ranks second in the world in terms of the highest number of internet users which are almost 34 per cent of a total of 1.3 billion population. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.340601

EXPLORATION OFTHE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF YOUTH: A SOCIAL MEDIA INTERVENTION WITH REFERENCE TO DIGITAL INDIA AND SWATCH BHARATH MISSIONS

Young people between the ages of 15 and 25 constitute a fifth of the world’s population. India is one of the youngest countries in the world, with an estimated 65 percent of the population under the age of 35. UN report says, with 356 million 10-24 year-olds, India has the world’s largest youth population despite having a smaller population than China. There are 243 Million internet users in India and it is likely to increase to 500 Million by 2018 making India larger than the US in terms of the number of Internet users (RajanAnandan, MD, Google India). In 2018, it is estimated that there will be around 283 million social network users in India, up from close to 216.5 million in 2016 (The Statistics Portal). Indians are very active on different social networks and 88% of users share content on their social profiles and as wellincreasingly spend time on various social networking sites. The ease of using and creating social media have spawned an explosion of grassroots participation, allowing individuals to express their opinions more openly and freely as well as to build a more active and significant relationship with official institutions (Rojas H 2012). The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and Digital India, one is the most significant cleanliness campaign by the Government of India and the other, to ensure that Government services are made available to citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure and increasing Internet connectivity.The purpose of this thematic paper is priority to investigate the relationship between social media use and political participation focusing on India’s two massive movements Swach Bharath and Digital India which happen in the network society. This paper provides an overview of what is considered the power of social media and how it shapes national news agenda with democratic values. It also analyses how social media users shape the future of news and information about these movements. This paper attempts to explain the exposure to human interest and conflict frames of news based on Swach Bharath and Digital India as a result of use of social media and it concludes on all aspects of governance and attempts to improve the quality of life of citizens