Digital Telangana programme to be launched

Hyderabad, June 29 (INN): After 'Make in India' and 'Swachh Bharat', the Government of India is launching its 3rd major campaign, called Digital India with the objectives of enabling digital empowerment of citizens, facilitating digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen and providing governance and services on demand.

Digital India will be launched through a week-long programme starting 1st July.

Under the leadership of Information Technology Minister K Tarakarama Rao, the ITE&C Department has simultaneously planned for a very ambitious Digital Telangana programme. The State Government has claimed that some of its goals under Digital Telangana far exceed Digital India's goals.

"Digital Telangana stands on two pivots; each of them representing the supply and the demand side. On the supply side, the main aim is to ensure that digital facilities become available to each and every person in the state. This is being made possible through laying OFC to each household using the water grid trenches, Providing 4G services in the entire state, Wifi in major cities and towns and e-Panchayat scheme under which a One Stop Shop kiosk will be available in each Panchayat," said a press release on Monday.

Similarly, on the demand side, the intention is to make each and every person digitally empowered so that he/she can make best use of the digital facilities that are being made available right at his/her doorstep. The strategies for this include Digital literacy programme, under which one member of each household will be taught to become digitally literate, School computer literacy programme: To teach every child from Class 6 onwards the basics of computers, Expansion of mee-seva services, Converting as many mee-seva services as possible on mobile platform and make mobile governance a reality in Digital Telangana and Identifying technology solutions for all government agencies to provide better services to the citizens.

The Government of Telangana, in the last six months, has been working on making the vision of Digital Telangana a reality by providing 4G services in major cities; enabling WiFi facilities at Tank Bund, Necklace Road, Charminar, Public Gardens, Railway Station, etc; expanding mee-seva services and working towards the goal of One Stop Shop (OSS) kiosks at each Gram Panchayat.

During this week long programme Department of IT&EC with the help of other departments is doing programmes at village, mandal, district and state level throughout the week.