The government is likely to spend Rs 10,000 crore in setting up one lakh digital villages across the country in the next five years. The announcement of setting up one lakh digital villages was made during the Interim Budget last week and is apart from the 700 already in the making. "A new scheme will be formulated to set up 100,000 digital villages and then allocation will be done. CSC will set up 20,000 digital villages every year in the next five years," Tyagi said. Conceptually, a digital village means it will have a digital banker, a digital doctor and a digital teacher with internet WiFi access point.

Source: dna February 05, 2019 23:26 UTC