Government to rollout digital literacy program for six crore individuals soon

New Delhi: The Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) has plans to start e-literacy initiative soon to train 6 crore Indians over a period of next three years as a part of Budget 2016-17 provisions. 

"We are starting digital literacy program in this fiscal to train another 6 crore individuals," DeitY additional secretary Ajay Kumar told ET, adding that the initiative under the National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) has received an overwhelming response by training 59 lakh individuals within 2 years of inception. 

The government in 2014 had set up a preliminary target of providing digital literacy to 52.5 lakh people in four years, which has already been achieved by the department and have undertaken a registration of more than 84 lakh people currently. 

The Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (Disha) or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) is a pan-India digital literacy scheme to provide education for free to BPL (below poverty line) households and members of the scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) communities. 

The government has partnered with the Nasscom Foundation which is driving the digital literacy initiative with CSR (corporate social responsibility) funds from the multinationals such as Google , Microsoft , and Intel . 

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