The People of India Recently Elected a New Government With a Historic Thumping Majority. Keeping Pace With the Changing Realities and Demands of the Modern and Technologically Advanced Indian Society, the Enthusiast Government Recently Took a Bold Digital India Initiative. Digital India Is an Initiative of the Central Government to Integrate All Government Departments to Facilitate Easy and Instant Availability of Major Government Services to the Masses of India. It Aims at Ensuring Effective Government Services and Good Governance Practices to the Citizens Electronically. the Initiative Includes Plans to Connect the Country, Especially the Rural Areas With High-Speed Internet Networks.
This Paper Intends to Analyze the 9 Pillars of Digital India Initiative (Mentioned In the Article Later) and Study Their Prospects As Well As Relevance In Bringing the Digital Democracy That the New Government Promises. It Shall Also Examine Whether Digital India Initiatives Shall Lead to an Inclusive Growth of the Country, Tackle the Problems of Unemployment and Illiteracy and Keeping the Country at Par With the Other Global Economies.
So Far, It Is Evident Both Through Foreign As Well As Indigenous Experiences of the Past That Digitalization of Democracy Has Resulted In the Reduction of Red-Tapism and There Are Significant Fall In the Magnitude of Corruption. It Has Led to Transparency In the Workings of the Government and Has Provided, Though In Limited Sense, Various Procedural Ease on the ...