Government Schemes

Digital literacy index in T.N. already high: Union Minister

·         The Pradhan MantriGramin Digital SakshartaAbhiyan (PMGDISHA) being initiated beneath Digital Republic of India Programme would cover six large integer households in rural areas to create them digitally literate.

·         The scheme to create six large integer persons in rural areas, across States/UTs, digitally literate, progressing to around four-hundredth of rural households by covering one member from each eligible household till thirty first March, 2020.

·         The scheme aims to bridge the digital divide, specifically targeting the agricultural population together with the marginalised sections of society like scheduled  Castes (SC) / scheduled  Tribes (ST), Minorities, Below proverty line (BPL), girls and differently-abled persons and minorities.

·         Earlier, the government had implemented the National Digital literacy Mission or the Digital SakshartaAbhiyan (DISHA) or National Digital literacy Mission (NDLM) to impart IT training to 52.5 lakh persons, as well as Anganwadi and ASHA employees and authorised ration dealers altogether the States/UTs across the country

·         The non-IT literate voters are trained to become IT literate therefore on modify them to actively and effectively participate within the democratic and developmental|biological process} process and additionally enhance their living.

·         Eligibility The scheme is applicable just for rural areas of the country.

·         Eligible Household: A household is defined as a unit comprising of Head of family, spouse, children and parents.

·         All such familys wherever none of the family member is digitally literate are thought of as eligible household underneath the scheme.

·         Entry criteria The beneficiary ought to be Digitally Illiterate only 1 person per eligible family would be thought of for coaching Age Group: fourteen – sixty years Priority would be given to Non-smartphone users, Antyodaya households, fraternity drop-outs, Participants of the adult skill mission Digitally illiterate college students from category ninth to twelfth, provided facility of Computer/ICT coaching isnt accessible in their schools Preference would tend to SC, ST, BPL, women, differently-abled persons and minorities

·         The identification of the beneficiaries would be distributed by CSC-SPV in active collaboration with DeGS, Gram Panchayats, and Block Development Officers.

·         The list of such beneficiaries would be made available on the scheme portal. Implementation

·         The implementation of the scheme would be administered underneath the general management of Ministry of electronics and IT in active collaboration with States/UTs through their selected State Implementing Agencies, District e-Governance Society (DeGS), etc.

·         Training process The duration of the training program is for 20 hours which has to be completed in a minimum of 10 days and maximum of 30 days.