🔆 10 Years of Digital India: Transforming Governance and Empowerment

📍 India marks a decade of Digital India with milestones in connectivity, inclusion, and innovation

✅ Internet Boom: Connections rose from 25.15 crore (2014) to 96.96 crore (2024), with broadband growing 1452%.
✅ 5G Revolution: 4.74 lakh towers installed, covering 99.6% of districts within 22 months.
✅ Digital Economy Growth: 11.74% of GDP in 2022–23; expected 13.42% in 2024–25.
✅ UPI Leadership: 1,867.7 crore transactions in April 2025 worth ₹24.77 lakh crore. India handled 49% of global real-time payments in 2023.
✅ BharatNet Progress: 2.18 lakh Gram Panchayats linked with high-speed internet; 6.92 lakh km of OFC laid.
✅ DBT Success: ₹44 lakh crore transferred; ₹3.48 lakh crore saved by weeding out fake beneficiaries.
✅ IndiaAI Mission: ₹10,371 crore outlay to build compute power (now 34,000+ GPUs), indigenous models, and AI skills ecosystem.
✅ Semiconductor Push: 6 chip projects worth ₹1.55 lakh crore approved under ₹76,000 crore mission.
✅ E-Governance Boost: 53.92 crore DigiLocker users, 8.34 crore UMANG users; services in 23 languages.
✅ Bhashini for Inclusion: Supports 35+ languages and 1,600+ AI models, making services multilingual.

📘 Source: Ministry of Electronics and IT, July 2025 Report

📝 Prelims Question
Q. Which of the following statements is true about India’s digital journey as of 2025?
(a) India has more 5G users than 4G
(b) DigiLocker has over 50 crore users ✅
(c) UPI is used only within India
(d) BharatNet covers only urban municipalities

📝 Mains GS2 Question
Discuss the achievements and challenges of the Digital India programme in the last decade. How has it contributed to inclusive growth and governance reforms?

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