Digital Interventions in Rural India: A Fresh Look

Abstract

The Paper initiates and supports the argument which suggest that digital technologies can help directly and indirectly for development and growth of rural economy in multiple directions. To initiate and support the above said argument few areas are taken for intensive field based observations and bring understanding. The areas include agriculture, banking and financing. This paper essentially offers a fresh look at various Digital interventions in rural areas Both government and private agencies have come up with various Digital interventions at rural areas with an aim to connect rural with urban by doing so achieving the ultimate national goal of making the nation a Digital nation. Government of India has named the mega project as Digital India: New India initiative. As a part of it first it came up with an initiative called good governance. Good governance is nothing but adopting good and best practices in everyday administrative activities in order to keep the administration easily and accessible and user friendly to users and especially for citizens. The efforts of government to make governance a good governance can be achieved through making use of digital technologies.