Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure that Government services are made available to citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology.
• It was launched on 2 July 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The initiative includes plans to connect rural areas with high-speedThe Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) will hold a nationwide protest on March 21 against the Centre for not fulfilling its promises, including setting up of a panel on MSP and withdrawal of cases against farmers. Apart from this, the farmers’ body will observe a MSP legal guarantee week from April 11 to April 17 during which unions will organise dharnas, demonstrations and seminars. This was decided Monday during SKM’s six-hour meeting held in Delhi.
“There is no trace of the assurance of forming a committee on MSP. Except Haryana, the police cases registered against the farmers during the agitation in other states have not been withdrawn. Delhi Police has spoken of partial withdrawal of some cases, but there is no concrete information about that as well. Nothing has happened about the cases registered during rail roko agitations across the country,” the SKM said in a statement.
