The Government of India seeks to promote digital payment methods to encourage consumers and merchants to increasingly shift to these payment modes. To take this imitative forward, Lucky Grahak Yojana for Consumers and Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana for Merchants, will be launched on 25th December 2016 a…
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Govt to start Digital Village programme soon
Government will soon launch a new programme, Digital Village, to provide services like health and education in villages with the help of technology. The programme would be rolled out in 100 villages initially and will be expanded later, Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. “We are …
Relief for SMEs adopting digital payment mode: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Union Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on December 17 said that no inquiry or opening on their transactions pre-November 8 will be done if small shopkeepers and enterprises adopt digital payment mode. Prasad said that this observation was made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi du…
Gates meets Indian Telecom Minister to discuss digital inclusion, e-payments
Microsoft Founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates met IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and discussed ways in which his Foundation could participate in areas such as digital inclusion, healthcare, e-agriculture and e-payments. “It’s very exciting time in India and digital plat…
Digital India mission to empower common man: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on October 25 said that the Digital India mission is to empower common man in the country. Inaugurating the incubation facility of Software Technology Park of India, Mohali, the Union IT Minister said that Digital India is also for the poor and underprivileged i…
Recommendations to raise tax holiday sent to Fin Min: Nirmala Sitharaman
Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said her Ministry has recommended the Ministry of Finance to raise tax holiday for start-ups from three years to seven with a sense of constructive and positive approach, and was awaiting a response. “They (Finance Ministry) have received the recommendation…
Common Service Centres to help entrepreneurs in making LED bulbs
Soon Common Service Centres (CSCs) will help entrepreneurs interested in making LED bulbs by providing them with assembly kits. CSCs, till now were being utilised for booking railway tickets, providing Aadhaar numbers and passport applications. The government is proposing to provide LED kits to C…
110 million mobile handsets produced in FY16: ICA & CEAMA
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ mission has achieved some success in boosting mobile manufacturing and assembling in the country. The number of handsets manufactured in India nearly doubled in FY16 from the previous year, said Ravi Shankar Prasad, Information Tech…
Electropreneur Park by Electronics & IT Min set for launch
Government-funded Electropreneur Park, an incubation centre with focus on IP creation and product development to increase domestic manufacturing of electronics items, is scheduled for launch this week. The Electropreneur Park with funding support from Ministry of Electronics and Information Techn…
India’s smartphone revolution: 35 units, 37,000 jobs in 2 years
India has seen about 35 new smartphone factories in the past two years, with a production capacity of about 18 million devices a month, since the central government had announced a tax rationalisation for electronics products to boost local electronics manufacturing. The new manufacturing units h…