How to implement digital India
I think digital India dream will become reality only if we think about one India or एक भारत. This means we develop one package(software) for each unit of the country such as for gram sabha, gram panchayat, village, tehsil, district, jila panchayat, state and ministries of government of india.
Best advantage of a computer is that a software package developed for one village can be duplicated for more than lakh villages of the country. Similarly packages developed for each branch of the state or government can be used by all and this will reduce the development cost. There is a requirement today that all village of the country get the same software, each district of the country should run the same software and each state should run the same software. This is what I mean by one India or एक भारत. It is like every body in the country running the latest android or apple software and using the latest phone. This will bring a sence of unity and equality within the country. All this entities will be connected in a way that all villages develop at the similar pace rather than waiting for a good or influential leader or administrator doing the development in a particular village, tehsil, district or state.
Each entity should be provided the basic infrastructure to implement the digital India dream. Since all the government establishment are paid from the tax collected from all citizens hence at the least digital India will create a digital equality. Each post office, bank, police station, hospital, government department should run on same software developed for each entity. This will help in achieving transparency, efficiency scalability, financial management, monitoring and finally the success of digital one India or एक भारत.
Imagine the employment opportunities with a single system running everywhere and people find same level of governance and facilities everywhere whether they are in New Delhi or in a village located at a remote location in the country. Imagine a citizen from any location in the country connected to his village or Town or city and be able to update his data or connect to any government official of the village,tehsil, district or state.
Only urgency today is that all the states should not start implementing their own systems which results in a situation where the softwares can not be integrated with each other at a later date. This will be like constructing a good road and then digging at various place to make footpaths and inserting pipes and cables under the road ultimately damaging a well constructed road. This is quite common in our country where no one is accountable for the loss in such activities like digging the roads.
Comments and suggestions are welcome, hope the government moves in the right direction.
I think implimenting this project requires lot of money. To implement digital India dream we can have the participation of Public by providing computers and laptops to each village as a online crowd funding where each one of us pledge to provide a PC or laptop to the selected village. Depending on the number of people pledging the PC or laptop government can display the name of the person or the private company on the Web page of the village.