The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the Digital India Week 2022 in Gandhinagar on July 4. The theme for the Digital India Week was ‘Catalyzing New India’s Techade’.
- During the programme, the PM also launched multiple digital initiatives aimed at enhancing the accessibility of technology, streamlining service delivery to ensure ease of living and giving a boost to startups.
Initiatives
- ‘Digital India Bhashini’: It will enable easy access to the internet and digital services in Indian languages, including voice-based access, and help the creation of content in Indian languages. Digital India Bhashini will enable massive citizen engagement to build these datasets through a crowdsourcing initiative called BhashaDaan.
- ‘Digital India GENESIS’ (Gen-next Support for Innovative Startups): It is a National Deep-tech Startup Platform, to discover, support, grow and make successful startups in Tier-II and Tier-III cities of India. A total outlay of ₹750 Crore has been envisaged for the scheme.
- ‘Indiastack.global’: It is a global repository of key projects implemented under India Stack like Aadhaar, UPI, Digilocker, Cowin Vaccination Platform, Government e-Marketplace (GeM), DIKSHA Platform and Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission.
- ‘MyScheme’: It is a service discovery platform facilitating access to Government Schemes. It aims to offer a one-stop search and discovery portal where users can find schemes that they are eligible for.
- ‘Meri Pehchaan’- National Single Sign On for One Citizen Login. National Single Sign-On (NSSO) is a user authentication service in which a single set of credentials provide access to multiple online applications or services.
- The C2S Programme aims to train specialized manpower in the area of design of semiconductor chips at Bachelors, Masters and Research levels, and act as a catalyst for the growth of Startups involved in semiconductor design in the country. This is part of the India Semiconductor Mission to build a strong design ecosystem in semiconductors. The Prime Minister also announced the first cohort of 30 Institutions to be supported under the Chips to Startup (C2S) Programme.
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