‘“Human
Digital Finance
Literacy Campaign is for Curbing Corruption and Black Money- Prakash Javadekar
Youths
are the Soldiers of Change- Prakash Javadekar
Digital India is
for Empowering the Country- Ravi Shankar Prasad
A National
Convention of Student Volunteers under Digital Financial Literacy Campaign by
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India today began here in
New Delhi .
Speaking on the
occasion Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar
called upon Student Volunteers under Digital Financial Literacy Campaign by
his Ministry
to work whole heartedly for the wide spread dissemination of the Ideas of Prime
Minister on Digital Economy so that the resources of the nation could be
utilized in a transparent manner.
The
Minister congratulated the volunteers for their laudable efforts and said going
digital is the need of the hour as in comparison to Developed
countries where GDP’s 4% Component is in currency, we have 12% component of
currency in our GDP and hence we need to change to Digital mode. He said going
digital will help boost our economic stability with definite availability of
funds for the welfare of masses at large, especially the poor and needy Population.
It will also result in net tax collection and resources. Today there are 77
crore Debit Cards available for digital transactions. He said wide spread
awareness should be generated across the country, Shri Javadekar added. He
said till now nearly 4.30 lakh volunteers have been registered who have started
educating masses across the country and so far under this campaign we have
covered 20 lakh households. The Minister asked the volunteers to work during
the post examination Holidays for publicity of this scheme. He said The Prime
Minister has set a target of 2500 crore digital transaction, in the year 2017
and this is 100% achievable. He said this campaign is dedicated to you.
In his address
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Electronics
& Information Technology and Law & Justice said that if
anyone desires of getting connected with the rest of the world, he will have to
get attached with Facebook and Twitter. Shri Prasad said, now in our Population
of 125 crore we are having 105 cr + Mobile Phones, 112+ crore Aadhaar Cards,
35 crore + smart phones and 50+ crore Internet Connections.. He said Digital
literacy campaign is intended to make India honest, digitally empowered and
digitally united. He said this campaign is meant to change India. He said we
have trained nearly 02 crore persons in digital transactions during three
months and in 2017 we are expecting over 05 crore persons trained in digital
transactions.
The Minister
also informed of the scheme of Lucky draws for common masses and the shop
keepers as well as the business community. He said digital India is for
empowering the country. He said the rest of the world is now amazed of India’s
Digital Power. Shri Prasad said 72 Mobile Manufacturing Companies have
ventured in India. He said Govt. schemes need money and as much as we go
digital, we will more money in a transparent way because then there will be
fair collections. He cited finance Ministers Union Budget Address in which he
had said that out of 125 crore persons only 3.5 crores file Income Tax returns.
He also said that of the 10 lakhs companies registered only 13 thousand
companies show their income above Rs. 10 lakh and hence paying of tax honestly is
necessary. He said the country can be awakened provided their some one who can
call upon the nation to do so. On this occasion two short Films on Digital
Literacy were also screened and a brochure on Digital literacy efforts was
also released. Awards were also given to volunteers and Institutions engaged in
this task.
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