Digital India

News Government has completed the roll out of national optical fibre network (NOFN) in 20,000 village panchayats to provide high speed broadband connectivity. It had set target to roll out the network across 50,000 village panchayats by March 31, 2015 and all the 2.5 lakh VPs by the end of ...

News India bids for airwaves crossed Rs 1 lakh crore or $18 billion, making the spectrum auction the biggest ever sale of spectrum by value. Benefits The auction has opened a number of new opportunities for subscribers in new circles for 3G services in 2100 Mhz band and LTE in ...

News The government has announced a policy for adopting open source software (OSS), making it mandatory that such software is considered along with proprietary products, as it looks to bring in transparency and lower total cost of ownership of projects. The policy shall be applicable to Central government organisations and ...

News Government is making efforts to ensure transparent and swift administration of social security schemes through e-initiatives for employees and employers, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said. He appreciated new initiatives by Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), including allotment of Universal Account Number to all EPF subscribers. The retirement fund body ...

News The Centre plans to pump $10 billion into facilities in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, where a consortium of firms have come up as production bases. India would also be investing $400 million in developing an Indian version of micro-processor. Infrastructure for chip manufacturing and designing will be considerably strengthened ...

News PMO announced the launching of a new public grievance cell, PRAGATI or Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation, which is a unique integrative and interactive platform. The PRAGATI platform uniquely bundles three latest technologies: Digital data management, video-conferencing and geo-spatial technology. This new portal will replace the portal PMO CPGRAMS which ...

Nine Pillars of Digital India It is a vision to prepare India for the digital era ahead. The focus is more on enabling and using technology in all walks of life. Using technology as the key enabler, the government is trying to weave together a mesh of comprehensive schemes. Various ...