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Digital Locker facility will help

citizens to digitally store their
important documents like PAN
card, passport, mark sheets and
degree
certificates.
Digital
Locker will provide secure
access to Government issued
documents. It uses authenticity
services provided by Aadhaar. It
is aimed at eliminating the use of
physical documents and enables
sharing of verified electronic
documents across government

Bold plans toreshape

Test cricket
NEW DELHI.
Shri Narendra Modi shares
his vision for Digital India
"Addressing the India Digital
Summit via video conferencing,
Shri Narendra Modi shared his
vision for Digital India.
The Digital India programme
is a flagship programme of
the Government of India with
a vision to transform India
into a digitally empowered
society
and
knowledge
economy.
The journey of eGovernance initiatives in India
took a broader dimension in
mid 90s for wider sectoral
applications with emphasis on
citizen-centric services. Later
started various e-Governance
projects. Though these eGovernance projects were
citizen-centric, Government of
India
launched National eGovernance Plan (NeGP) in
2006. 31 Mission Mode
Projects
covering
various
domains were initiated. Despite
the successful implementation
of many e-Governance projects
across
the
country,
eGovernance as a whole has not
been able to make the desired
impact.
It has been felt that a lot
more thrust is required to on,
many States/UTs ensure eGovernance in the country
promote inclusive growth that
covers electronic services,
products, devices and job
opportunities.
Moreover,
electronic manufacturing in the
country
needs
to
be
strengthened. In order to

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transform
the
entire
ecosystem of public services
through
the
use
of
information technology, the
Government of India has
launched the Digital India
programme with the vision
to transform India into a
digitally empowered society
and knowledge economy.
Digital India was launched
by the Prime Minister of
India Narendra Modi on 2
July 2015 - with an objective
of connecting rural areas with
high-speed Internet networks
and
improving
digital
literacy. The vision of Digital
India programme is inclusive
growth in areas of electronic
services,
products,
manufacturing
and
job
opportunities etc. and it is
centred on three key areas
Digital Infrastructure as a
Utility to Every Citizen,
Governance & Services on
Demand
and
Digital
Empowerment of Citizens.
The government is planning
to create 28,000 seats of
BPOs in various states and
set up at least one Common
Service Centre in each of the
gram panchayats in the state.
The 2016 Union budget of
India
announced
11
technology
initiatives
including the use data
analytics to nab tax evaders,

ICC CRICKET.

Chennai struggling to return to normalcy

after raging floods
CHENNAI.

The 2015 South Indian

floods resulted from heavy
rainfall generated by the
annual northeast
monsoon in
NovemberDecember
2015.
They affected the Coromandel
Coast region
of
the South
Indian states
of Tamil
Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, and
the
union
territory

killed and over 18 lakh

(1.8 million) people were
displaced. With estimates of
damages and losses ranging
from
nearly 200
billion(US$3 billion) to over 1
trillion (US$15 billion),
the
floods were the costliest to have
occurred in 2015, and were
among the costliest natural
disasters of the year. The
flooding has been attributed to
the 2014-16 event.

Ambitious

plans
to
revolutionise Test cricket by
introducing
promotion
and
relegation are facing potentially
ruinous opposition from India.
The proposal to reshape Test
cricket into two divisions, with a
top flight of seven and second
division of five, are due to be
discussed in Dubai this week
and have the support of the
England & Wales Cricket Board,
Cricket Australia and boards in
South Africa and New Zealand.
But the ICC looks to be splitting
along familiar lines once again the BCCI standing up for the
with the Asian bloc set to oppose poorer countries will not be lost
the plans led by India. Sri Lanka on many. They forced through,
with the help of England and
Australia, structural changes at
the ICC which saw more power
vested in the hands of the so
called big three. It will be a blow
to Dave Richardson, the ICC

culminating in Anurag Thakur,

the boards chief executive,
telling ESPN cricinfo on
Saturday.

The ICC cricket chief executive,

who in London earlier this year
said a league system would add
meaning and context to help
Test cricket survive. He has said
India are willing to accept
chief executive, who in London Hotspot and real time snicko as
As the governing body of the earlier this year said a league a watered down version of DRS

game, the ICC's job is to

popularise the game and increase
its global reach," Thakur said.
"On the contrary, this system may
be good for the top five countries,
but apart from that, everyone else
will suffer. On the one hand, we
say we need to support teams like
West Indies, Bangladesh and