Overview

• On its 10th anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi described Digital India as central to an Aatmanirbhar Bharat and a global innovation partnership in a LinkedIn blog post
• He noted internet access has grown from 25 crore connections in 2014 to 97 crore today, supported by over 42 lakh km of optical fibre and 4.81 lakh 5G base stations
• Key digital platforms—UPI, DBT, Aadhaar, CoWIN, DigiLocker and FASTag—now handle over 100 billion transactions annually and have routed more than ₹44 lakh crore to beneficiaries
• Economic inclusion tools ONDC and GeM have unlocked new markets for MSMEs, with ONDC crossing 200 million transactions and GeM achieving ₹1 lakh crore GMV in 50 days
• Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge questioned promised broadband coverage, pointed to digital exclusion of marginalized groups and cited rising cyberattack figures and data-protection shortfalls