Digital Transformation India: What Does The Government Do? Digital India is the government’s flagship with the goal of transforming India into a technologically driven community and information economy.
The project focuses on providing every person with digital technology. Besides, governance and on-demand services to facilitate the digital empowerment of people. Further, facilitating policies for the IT sector and start-ups. The government is also implementing state-of-the-art ICT to reinvent itself. In order to provide information and resources securely and effectively to people.
- Projects on information and technology
- Digital Platforms
- Financial Sector DT
Projects on information and technology
The emphasis was on hitting the final milestone and digital convergence is at the heart of the Digital India project. Under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the National Informatics Center (NIC) is an important player in the Indian government’s digital transformation.
In 1982, NIC developed a VSAT-based intergovernmental communication network. Long before they introduced the Internet in the region, the government used the X400 electronic Messaging Program.
The core factors that provide a basis for government agencies in developing IT networks that deliver services to people are national infrastructures such as the network, cloud, video conferences, government mail, GIS software, the public financial management system, and digital payments.
For over three decades, the government has been using ICT-based frameworks to enforce and administer its programs. With the introduction of technology, these structures developed. Initially, client-server networks had to be installed and run at the last miles, which had their own problems.
Over time, the Government has moved on to web-based applications and then to cloud-based systems. While cloud-based platforms provide many benefits, performing a centralized system demands strong, reliable communication.
Centralized systems will help to develop domestic registers/databases that give a vast country like India significant advantages.
The eTransport initiative demonstrates the advantages of a national register. The Regional Transport Office in the nation has effectively automated and developed a national centralized transport database with alerts in real time and availability. There is now a centralized database of more than 250 million car reports and more than 150 million driver’s license records.
Financial Sector DT
They developed the PFMS as a free, reliable, successful, and robust payment portal for the Indian government. The method allows for the successful delivery of payments to receive accounts directly from government treasuries and service organizations.
They developed PFMS as an online transaction mechanism that not only lets the government control its finances but also analyzes the cash flow through governmental wings.
Electronic transactions have had an immense societal impact. Therefore, ensuring prompt transfers of benefits to the people, adding performance, efficiency, openness and system responsibility. In addition, the Government should ensure the exact targeting of recipients. And, above all, resolve other nuances of multilayer allocation of funds, thus removing proliferation and curbing leakage and duplication.
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) constitutes an indirect tax on the supply of goods and services. For eg, it is a multi-stage tax dependent on destinations, which is paid at any point as a product travels from products into manufacturing, delivery, and sales.