Digital India

Digital India: Navigating Sustainable Development Goals is a comprehensive edited volume exploring India's transformative digital journey in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This resource-rich book caters to academics, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, students and global stakeholders. Covering diverse topics such as the impact of COVID-19 on education, Fintech adoption, gender justice, and sustainability challenges, it provides a nuanced understanding of the intersection between technology and sustainable development. The book serves as a valuable resource for gaining insights into the practical implications of Digital India initiatives and their role in achieving SDGs.

Digital India and The Poor examines how the poor are evoked in contemporary Indian political discourse. It studies the ways in which the disadvantaged are accounted for in the increasingly digitised political economy, commercial and public policy, media, and academic research. This book: Interrogates the category of the poor in India and how they have come to be classified in economic and policy documents over the past few decades Explores the influential digital education technology ‘experiments’ conducted in Indian slums from the late 1990s, now popularly known as the ‘hole-in-the-wall experiments’ Discusses financial inclusion initiatives, predominantly as they converged between 2014 and 2017, such as the Jan Dhan Yojana, the Aadhaar Project, and the banknote demonetisation Presents an in-depth study of the bearing of technology on domestic employment in India The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, politics, political science and sociology, technology studies, linguistics, and development studies.

In Today's world digital transaction is important in business, especially in dealing with merchants and clients.Focusing on digitalization can help our country grow tremendously. According to a report by economic analysts, the Digital India initiative could boost our GDP by around $1 trillion by 2025. Digital India was created with a vision of making inclusive growth in the areas of products, manufacturing, electronic services, and job opportunities. The main objective of the Digital India Mission is 'Power to Empower. A digitally connected India can result in the growth of the social and economic status of people. This can be achieved by the development of non-agricultural economic activities. As we know the vision of the Digital India Scheme is very vibrant in India. The goal of the Digital India scheme is to make India a digitally empowered society with a knowledge economy. The vision is divided into 3 parts. The digital infrastructure is a utility to every citizen, governance and services on demand and digital empowerment of citizens.We are very happy to come out with this book on “ Digital India: A Progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ” that need to be addressed and inculcated by today. The Digital India programme itself promises to transform India into a digitally empowered society by focusing on digital literacy, digital resources, and collaborative digital platforms. This book is aimed to focus on adopting digital technologies such as automation and robotics has helped increase manufacturing efficiency and productivity, enabling Indian manufacturers to compete more effectively in global markets.

The relationship between information and the nation-state is typically portrayed as a face-off involving repressive state power and democratic flows: Twitter and the Arab Spring, Google in China, WikiLeaks and the U.S. State Department. Less attention has been paid to those scenarios where states have regarded information and its diffusion as productive of modernity and globalization. It is the central argument of this book that the contemporary nation-state, especially in the global South, is far from hostile to the current informational milieu and in fact makes crucial use of it in order to develop adequate modes of governance, communication and sociality in a networked world. This book focuses on India – an emerging country that has recently witnessed a "software miracle" – to highlight the critical role informatics has historically played in the national imagination and to demonstrate how the state, private capital and civic society have drawn upon and engaged the precepts and protocols of the information age to fashion an "info-nation."

This handbook critically examines the three concepts of exclusion, inequality and stigma and their interrelationship in the Indian context. Divided into five parts, the volume deals with the issues of exclusion, inequality, gender discrimination, health and disability, and assault and violence. It discusses important topical themes such as caste and social exclusion in rural labour markets, impact of poverty and unemployment, discrimination in education and literacy, income inequality and financial inclusion, social security of street vendors, women social entrepreneurs, rural–urban digital divide, workplace inequality, women trafficking, acid attacks, inter-caste marriages, honour killings, health care and sanitation, discrimination faced by those with disabilities, and regional disparities in India. The book traces rising socio-economic inequality and discrimination along with the severe lack of access to resources and opportunities, redressal instruments, legal provisions and implementation challenges, while also looking at deep-rooted causes responsible for their persistence in society. With emphasis on affirmative action, systemic mechanisms, and the role of state and citizens in bridging gaps, the volume presents several policies and strategies for development. It combines wide-ranging empirical case studies backed by relevant theoretical frameworks to map out a new agenda for research on socio-economic inequality in India with important implications for public policy. Comprehensive and first of its kind, this handbook will serve as a key reference to scholars, researchers and teachers of exclusion and discrimination studies, social justice, political economy, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, development studies, education and public administration. It will also be useful to policymakers, bureaucrats, civil society activists, non-governmental organisations and social entrepreneurs in the development sector, in addition to those interested in third world studies, developing economies and the global south.

‘An Interim Evaluation of the Performance of Make in India Program In Information Technology Hardware’ discusses the vital strategies for the success of India's Make in India Program in the IT hardware sector. It also delves into economic game-changers - Demonetization and GST - and their influence on the industry. The outcome also illustrates perception of Industry people about the Make in India Program. This book also underlines role of Academic Institution for Making India self-reliant in the manufacturing of Information Technology Hardware.