A digital India initiative was taken by the government of India in which they provide online facility of issuing license, pension, and passport etc. Telecom and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said “one of the primary focuses of Digital India is pillar 5 – eKranti – electronic deliveries of services”.

During the question hour he said that “e-Kranti aims to ensure a government wide transformation by delivering all services electronically to the citizens through integrated and interoperable system via multiple modes while ensuring efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs.”

He further said, “Under e-Kranti, the government of India has made concerted effort to make offline government services to be also delivered through online mode, ensuring that all citizens would have access to them, thereby improving the quality of basic governance on an unprecedented scale.”

In e-Kranti they provide online services which include income tax, passport, immigration, core banking, pension grievance redressal, courts, police, RTI, utility payments, licenses, social welfare schemes, agriculture, municipality, land record, vehicle registration, driving license, public distribution system etc. There are 44 Mission Made Projects (MMP) 13 in central, 17 in States and 14 in integrated MMP’s.

There are around 1.99 lakh common service centers have been made operational and 1,40,751 KMs OFC pipe laid and over 1,12 lakh KMs optical fiber laid for connectivity to 50,465 gram panchayats to deliver services to citizens in rural areas. Because of e-Kranti rural tele-density has crossed 50.09%. Guidelines for spectrum sharing and trading and liberalization of spectrum have been issued. More than 2 crore passport applications have been processed.