Awareness and usage of digital India programme: A study of bicholimtaluka

Digital India is a flagship programme of Government of India which aims to transform our country into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Together with the existing policies to popularise use of e-governance, it has a number of smaller proposals and programmes that would be rolled out gradually. Goa is one of the leading states in implementing Information Technology in the government sector. The present study conducted in BicholimTaluka found that significant number of respondents is aware about Digital India Programme through media and friends/relatives. It was observed that most of the respondents have linked their Aadhaar Card to Government Welfare Schemes, Ration Card as well as LPG connections to avail subsidy. It is worth noting that sizeable numbers of respondents are using net banking and e–commerce services. The study also suggests that most of the respondents do not experience any major difficulties while availing the benefit of Digital India initiatives. However, majority of the respondents are not using e-Governance Services for checking registration of property and paying traffic fines online and they have not benefitted from the free computer training programmes conducted by the government.