Digital India Portal Registration: Everything You Need To Know

What is Digital India?

Digital India is an initiative taken up by the government of India, to create a digitally empowered society. The Digital India campaign comprises of various initiatives under a single programme. All programmes are integrated to help India shift to mobile governance and deliver services and facilities via mobile phones and the internet. Digital India is an ambitious project launched by the government, to enable India become a knowledge based economy and for bringing good governance to citizens through synchronized and co-ordinated engagement.

This programme has been envisaged and co-ordinated by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), in collaboration with various Central Ministries/Departments and State Governments. The Prime Minister serves as the Chairman of the Monitoring Committee on Digital India. The implementation and workings of the Digital India initiative are being regulated and monitored very carefully. All the existing and ongoing e-Governance initiatives have been revamped to align them with the principles of Digital India.

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Digital India Portal Registration: Everything You Need To Know

Vision of Digital India:

The vision of digital India program is to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The vision of Digital India programme is to carry out inclusive growth in areas like electronic services, products and manufacturing. The digital India programme is based on three key visions:

• Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Each Citizen: it aims to provide a unique digital identity to citizens which are unique and authentic. A key component under this vision is to provide high speed internet, connect every Indian village and city via broadband and internet, enable citizens to participate in banking through better mobile and internet access, and ensure citizens have easy access to common service centres. It also proposes to provide citizens with sharable private space on common cloud through ‘DigiLockers’ and a safe and secure cyber space.
• Governance and Services on Demand: Under this vision, the government wants to ensure seamless integrated services across departments or jurisdictions, availability of services in real time from online and mobile platforms. It aims to facilitate digitally transformed services for improving ease of doing business as well as making financial transactions electronic and cashless and leveraging Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) for decision support systems and development.
• Digital Empowerment of Citizens: Under this vision, the government wants to ensure that all citizens are entitled to digital connectivity with an aim to empower society through a focus on digital literacy, digital resources, and collaborative digital platforms. This also places emphasis on universal digital literacy and availability of digital resources/services in Indian languages.

With the above vision, the Digital India programme aims to provide Broadband Highways, Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity, Public Internet Access Programme, E-Governance: Reforming Government through Technology, eKranti - Electronic Delivery of Services, Information for All, Electronics Manufacturing: Target Net Zero Imports,  IT for Jobs and Early Harvest Programmes.

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What is Digital India Portal?

Digital India portal is a website which has been launched by the government, with the aim to provide opportunities for retailers, to make use of various web based services and serve their clients with a low investment cost.

Digital India portal provides a platform through which the government can establish business relationships with operators, consumers, merchants and vendor networks, financial institutions and infrastructure providers. Digital India plays a critical role ensuring the success of the system, allowing all parties, maximize the benefits.

Digital India portal is owned by experts who have been in the e-government services industry since 2017. It is an allied services provider company that offers e-governance services, successful electronic payment solutions and services for telecommunications operators and utility operators within the region.

How to Register on Digital India Portal?

Visit the official website of digital India:

• On the home page of digital India portal you get various options.
• Click on ‘franchise registration’ option on the homepage to register yourself on the digital India portal.
• A page appears with a ‘contact franchise form’. The form contains various fields that you must fill with authentic details. Listed below are the fields mentioned in the form:

1. Name
2. Email address
3. Mobile number
4. Address
5. City
6. Pin code
7. State
8. Country
9. Retailer shop name
10. Current business

• After filling the above fields, you must upload documents like Aadhaar card, PAN card, photograph and digital signature.
• To upload documents you just have to click on the buttons given under each of these categories. The files should be in JPG format of size 300 DPI (dots per inch).
• You have to then click on the submit button and submit the application form.
• You will receive the user ID and password within 24 to 48 hours in the registered e-mail ID.
• After this you can start using the digital India portal by logging in with your user ID and password.
• For any assistance related to the form or any other query, you can contact the numbers provided below the submit button or you can send an email on the official email ID ‘[email protected]’.

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Digital India Portal App:

Digital India Mobile App is a mobile based application developed to provide easy access to information on Digital India Programme through smart phones and other mobile devices. Through Mobile App, the latest status, quiz, contest and discussion forum can be accessed.  Any update on Digital India portal would be known to registered users through pop-ups.

Digital India Platform:

Digital India brings in a Digital India Portal and provides consumers this convenience, by creating a franchise network of conventional mom and pop stores (kirana stores), located in the consumer's neighbourhood. These franchisees are equipped with a multifunctional terminal, which is connected to the service providers' servers and executes transactions on a real-time basis. Digital India Portal has contractual agreements with service providers and is authorized to issue legally valid reservations and receipts.

The mission of the digital India portal is to create employment opportunities for the low and middle income group and empower the youth with entrepreneurial opportunities. The portal also provides video link and tutorials, so that the registered entities can perform various tasks under this portal.  It also provides a manual to use services like vehicle insurance, money transfer, electricity bill, PAN and Aadhaar related services, , BHIM app, GST and so on under this portal.

Digital India Services:

The services that can be availed under the Digital India portal are as follows:

• PAN card
• GST
• Digital signature
• Pension Yojana
• Money transfer
• IRCTC
• Passport
• Electricity bill
• Banking
• ITR
• Vehicle insurance
• Job portal

Advantages of Digital India:

With the introduction of the digital India program, the government has taken a big step to convert India into a digitally empowered and digitally motivated knowledge based economy. Listed below are the main advantages of the Digital India program:

• Creation of digital infrastructure and electronic manufacturing in India.
• Delivery of all government services electronically.
• Spread digital literacy and empower citizens.
• Provide authentic and unique digital identification system which will verify the end user.
• Help the government easily transfer benefits and subsidies to the beneficiaries.
• Connecting every city and village in India and helping them access government and financial services through mobile phones and the internet.
• This will help in minimising corruption related to government services.
• Availing services will be easier and free of cost. The government will be able to provide services faster and with high efficiency.
• Helps in decreasing documentation and leads to paperless governance.

The vision of Digital India campaign is to ensure inclusive growth in areas like electronic services, products, manufacturing and job opportunities. Digital India aims to fulfil the Prime Minister’s (Narendra Modi’s) vision to make India a digitally empowered and cashless society. The program’s main objective is to provide easy access to government services by improved online infrastructure and make India digitally empowered in the field of technology. The programme will generate huge number of IT, Telecom and Electronics jobs, both directly and indirectly. Success of this programme will make India a Digitally empowered Nation and a leader in usage of IT in delivery of services related to various domains like health, education, agriculture and banking.

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