Digital india initiative and E-governance: Issues and challenges

In recent years India has started a unique path to digitalization. Digital India programme is a most important programmeof Government of India with the intention of transforming india into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. In order to implement this programme effectively and efficiently, government has introduced many schemes and taken many steps. At present the internet and telecommunication services in India have substantially increased and this gives a ray of hope to the citizens of India to fight with the long persisting problems of poverty, corruption, unemployment and regional disparity. In this paper I am trying to explain the various issues and challenges relating to Digital India initiatives.