Digital India

Government of India took an initiative “Digital India” to unite the nation through technology. On 2nd July, Wednesday 2015 the launch event was held at Indira Gandhi Indoor stadium in Delhi. Many Indian businessmen proposed their existing investment plans towards Digital India. Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani, TATA group chairman Cynus Mistry, Wipro Ltd. chairman Azim Premji and Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani , committed for a significant investments towards the initiative. Microsoft Corp’s Satya Nadella also appreciated the “Digital India” initiative, also he sen a video message on the campaign.

This initiative aims to make an Investment of Rs 4.5 trillion and hires of 1.8 million people over five to ten years. Chairman of Vedanta group Mr. Anil Agarwal said “Digital India” will attract FDI in the country and will generate jobs. Vedanta Resource Plc and sterlite technologies ltd committed by saying Sterlite plants to manufacture LCD panels in India entailling  an investment of Rs 40,000 crore, which will also in turn generate employment opportunities to 50000 people. Also Mukesh Ambani committed an investment of 2.5 trillion towards the project. They aim to invest in infrastructure, wireless broadbands infrastructure across India. Also Jio will help to build a nationwide distance network that will enable small re =tailors to sell smartphones and internet devices. Mr Mistry announced that TCS will hire 60,000 people this fiscal year. Kumar Mangalam Birla aaded that Idea Cellular Ltd. has been investing in excess of $15 billion where they have laid 100,000 km of fibre and have a network of over 150,000 cell sites. They have planned to invest over $2 billion over next 5 years towards Digital India program.

Mr Sunil Bharti Mittal chairman of Bharti Airtel Ltd also committed an investment excess of Rs 1 trillion in  next  years. Which will help towards infrastructure , 4G to people etc.

But during the launch, major global technology companies like Qualcomm Inc., Foxconn and Google Inc. were absent . Government tried to approached them , they declined to participate. Still Digital India is very optimistic and positive initiative towards development of India .

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