Social Change and Challenges in the epoch of Digitalization: An overview

Indian masses are strongly influenced by the culture prevailing in the society and re-socializing values already indoctrinated is not easy to alter. Culture have a profound influence on one‘s attitude, perception, values, beliefs, personality and so on. The newly introduced ‘Digital India‘ programme is based on technology with a vision to transform India to a digitally empowered society and a knowledge economy. Citizens can now avail many of the Government services electronically. The implementation of digitalization will help in impelling power of Information Technology for the overall development of the country. Implementing it is a great challenge and there are many hurdles to successfully implement it especially in the social sector due to poor internet connectivity in the remote areas and rectification of the concerned issue lacking by certain departments. The process of ‘Digitalisation‘ is creating a constant deliberation among economist, bureaucrats, Industrialist as well as educationists. This paper attempts to understand the concept, its impact and effect of digitalization in Indian Society and how it has been able provide various services to the people in society.