Cabinet approves PMGDISHA for covering 6 crore Rural Households

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved ‘Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan’ (PMGDISHA) to make 6 crore rural households digitally literate.

The outlay for this project is Rs.2, 351.38 crore to usher in digital literacy in rural India by March, 2019,  this announcement is made by Finance Minister in the Union Budget 2016-17.

PMGDISHA is expected to be one of the largest digital literacy programmes in the world. Under the scheme, 25 lakh candidates will be trained in the Financial Year 2016-17,  275 lakh in the FY 2017-18 and 300 lakh in the FY 2018-19.

To ensure equitable geographical reach, each of the 250,000 Gram Panchayats would be expected to register an average of 200-300 candidates.

Digitally literate persons would be able to operate digital access devices, receive emails, browse internet, access Government Services, search for information, undertaking cashless transactions, etc. and hence use IT to actively participate in the process of nation building.