Telecom and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government aims to make at least 50% of the Indian population digitally literate in 3 years, from the current 15%. Prasad added that India needed 100% digital literacy to make it a digitised society. He said that the world was watching developments in the country and that it was the ‘responsibility of the youth to live up to those expectations’. Prasad added that more than 4,000 innovators had come to India to explore IT and electronics manufacturing, and ‘knowledge economy’ and government initiatives will drive the change. Quiz and awareness for students The government had held an online quiz on cyber safety and cyber awareness in July last year, in collaboration with Intel. In this, around 10 lakh students had participated from all Indian states and Union Territories and before the winners were awarded, the government conducted a workshop on cyber safety and awareness, cyber bullying, social media misuse, identity theft, hacking, mobile crime, e-fraud etc. Digital/computer saksharta mission During the same time, PM Modi had announced the Digital India week which included a website for National digital literacy mission: The website claimed that at that time, around 280,000 people are undergoing training and around 114,000 people who have been trained under 367 training partners. As of now, the website states that 4,603,154 have enrolled for training and 3,349,154 have been trained under 1,846 training partners. It also states that the country has 1,241,585 certified candidates, of which a majority…
