Union Cabinet approves expansion of the Digital India programme

The Union Cabinet approved the expansion of the Digital India programme. The total outlay is ₹14,903 crores.

  • Digital India programme was launched on 1st July, 2015 to enable digital delivery of services to citizens.

Salient Features:

  • 6.25 lakh IT professionals will be re-skilled and up-skilled under the FutureSkills Prime Programme;
  • 2.65 lakh persons will be trained in information security under the Information Security & Education Awareness Phase (ISEA) Programme;
  • 540 additional services will be available under the Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) app/ platform. At present over 1,700 services are already available on UMANG;
  • 9 more supercomputers will be added under National Super Computer Mission. This is in addition to 18 supercomputers already deployed;
  • Bhashini, the AI-enabled multi-language translation tool (currently available in 10 languages) will be rolled out in all 22 schedule 8 languages.

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