28 States and Union Territories participated; Deliberations held with States on ‘Digital India Initiatives for Ease of Living and Ease of Doing Business.
Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) organized a meeting with IT Secretaries from States and Union Territories under the chairmanship of Shri Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary, MeitY on the theme ‘Digital India Initiatives for Ease of Living and Ease of Doing Business’. This was attended by 28 States and Union Territories and Senior Officers from MeitY and its Organizations namely NIC, NICSI, DIC, CDAC, NIELIT, UIDAI, BiSAG(N), and STPI.
The sessions and interactions with States and UTs were moderated by Shri Bhuvnesh Kumar, Additional Secretary, MeitY and Shri Abhishek Singh, P&CEO, NeGD, MeitY.
The latest initiatives of MeitY comprising the budget announcements made for 2023-24, Electronics Manufacturing including Semiconductor Manufacturing, E-Governance – Aadhaar based address update, Entity DigiLocker, Digital Government Policy, Emerging Technologies, Chips to Startup, National Blockchain Framework and Secured cloud solutions were showcased and shared. All participating States and UTs shared their latest citizen centric E-Governance Initiatives, use of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Drone, IoT etc for governance especially in health, agriculture, property registration and mining areas etc, Electronics manufacturing and the progress of digital infrastructure and upcoming and planned areas of improvements.
Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary, MeitY made opening and closing remarks. In his remarks, he shared the Digital India progress made since the last such meeting and the plan of action for FY 2023-24. He appreciated the States and UTs for sharing their best practices and latest Digital India Initiatives. He sought suggestions from States to make the upcoming IT Ministers’ conference action-oriented. He emphasized that cross-sharing of the latest digital developments and replication of these are important to save time & efforts and to accelerate digital governance.
