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inspiring initiative of ‘Darji Online’,
Common Service Gudiya Singh’s digital education,
Centres (CSCs) Om Prakash Singh’s journey of
Promoting Rural becoming a digital entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship & or the story of Jorsing village
Digital Inclusivity
and their convergence with
Ensuring delivery of e-services & products to citizens at 4G connectivity, these all are
doorsteps, and creating digital infrastructure in villages
testimonials of how Digital India
4.94
500,000 followed by Digital Village has
Lakh
successfully bridged the gap
400,000 3.72 between Bharat (rural) and India
Lakh (urban), enabling the country
300,000 to weave it into a dream for
2.12 tomorrow where technology
200,000
Lakh can be used and accessed
96,130 by all.
100,000
Digitalization has thus been
one of the most important trends
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2014-2015 2015-2016 2020 2022 in India over the past few years.
-Functional CSCs- This rapid growth helps propel
India to the forefront of digital
and technological innovation,
particularly leveraging the
energies of the country’s youth
and rural population.
India has reached this
pinnacle of digital success
because of the vision of Hon’ble
Prime Minister Modi who once
stated, “For me IT + IT = IT” or, as
he elaborated, “Indian Talent +
Information Technology = India
Tomorrow.”

PM’s clarion call

"Many lives in villages are
getting new strength from the
The Prime Minister in his recent Digital India campaign. Do
'Mann ki Baat' address shared the write to me as much as you can
success stories of many such about the Digital Entrepreneurs
Indians who are heralding a of the villages, and also share
brand new era of Digital India and
their success stories on social
leveraging access to high-quality
media."
internet. Be it Setha Singh Rawat’s
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