PMGDISHA

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In news– Recently, the Minister of State for Electronics & IT, graced the ‘Launch Program of PMGDISHA Drive & Announcement of 100% Digital Literacy of all digital villages’ under AzadiKa Amrit Mahotsav.

PMGDISHA drive(campaign)-

• The PMGDISHA drive has been launched under the PMGDISHA scheme, a flagship Digital Literacy scheme of the Government for rural areas. 
• Under the campaign, a three day certification drive for rural citizens especially women and disadvantaged communities will be conducted from September 8th to 10th. 
• From September 11th to 13th September, a certification  drive for PMGDISHA scheme will be conducted in a similar manner.
• Apart from this Common Service Center (CSC) also proposed to make all the Digital Villages 100 percent Digital Literate. 

About Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA)-

• PMGDISHA is a dynamic and integrated platform of digital literacy awareness, education and capacity programmes that will help rural communities fully participate in the global digital economy.
• The Government of India introduced its flagship Digital Literacy Programme, PMGDISHA in February, 2017. 
• PMGDISHA is being initiated under the Digital India Programme.
• The Scheme envisages to make six crore persons in rural areas, across States/UTs, digitally literate, reaching to around 40% of rural households by covering one member from every household where there is no digitally literate person.
• The project aims at helping adults with low technological literacy develop the skills they need to interact in an increasingly digital world.
• The PMGDISHA Exam for “Direct Candidates” has been implemented for all those general candidates who wish to obtain PMGDISHA Certificates.
• PMGDISHA and CSCs have emerged as the enablers for digital literacy.
• The implementation of the Scheme would be carried out under the overall supervision of the Ministry of Electronics and IT in active collaboration with States/UTs through their designated State Implementing Agencies, District e-Governance Society (DeGS), etc.

Eligibility

• • The Scheme is applicable only for rural areas of the country.

• Eligible Household:

• • • A household is defined as a unit consisting of the Head of family, spouse, children and parents. 
    • All such households where none of the family members are digitally literate will be considered as eligible households under the Scheme.

• Entry criteria

• • • The beneficiary should be Digitally Illiterate
    • Only one person per eligible household would be considered for training
    • Age Group: 14 – 60 years

• Priority would be given to

• • • Non-smartphone users, Antyodaya households, college drop-outs, Participants of the adult literacy mission
    • Digitally illiterate school students from class 9th to 12th, provided facility of Computer/ICT Training is not available in their schools

• Preference would be given to SC, ST, BPL, women, differently-abled persons and minorities

• The identification of the beneficiaries would be carried out by CSC-SPV in active collaboration with DeGS, Gram Panchayats, and Block Development Officers. 

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