Govt unveils week long Azadi Ka Digital Mahotsav

New Delhi: In a bid to further promote digital technology and services in India, the central government on Monday announced launch of Azadi Ka Digital Mahotsav, a week-long event. The announcement was made by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology.

At the announcement of the event, the minister stated that India has emerged more confident and more optimistic nation in post-pandemic world and that Digital India has contributed immensely to transforming the lives of people, making digital economy and creating strategic advantage for the country.

The minister also emphasises on the need of actions on six fronts namely connectivity for all, smart architecture driven digitalization of the government services and products, trillion-dollar digital economy in India, global standard law, leadership position in advanced technology in the segment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 5G and broad-based Skill and talent pool.

Azadi Ka Digital Mahotsav, Secretary-MeitY, has stresses on single sign-on, multiple windows to get complete array of services, and choice to citizens to walk-in to assisted mode of service delivery centers.

As per the announcement, the Digital Mahotsav Week will conduct different activities such as theme-based sessions comprising of key speakers from the Government, Industry and Academia, launches, exhibitions, demos and award ceremonies for winners of several Challenges that MeitY has conducted with diverse stakeholders from school children to startups to budding entrepreneurs.

Abhishek Singh, CEO-MyGov and NeGD, said that the event will be covering topics namely Digital India – Public Platforms and; State initiatives, Emerging Technologies including AI, Meity Startup Hub, Making India Aatmanirbhar in Electronics manufacturing, Empowering Citizens through CSCs, Swadeshi Microprocessors and National Supercomputing Mission, Citizen Engagement with MyGov and Digital Payment Utsav. He also informed that an exhibition having 50 stalls have been opened and top 20 teams from Government schools are showcasing AI enabled solutions.