Digital North East Vision 2022

About:

• Objective: Maximum utilisation of digital technologies to transform lives of people of the north east region.
  
  
• Strategy: Under it, eight thrust areas have been identified. Some of these are –
  • Provide mobile connectivity in all uncovered villages in the North East.
    
    
  • Set-up a cloud-hub for North East in Guwahati.
    
    
  • Capacity building for 50,000 state government employees in use of digital technologies.
    
    
  • Promoting BPOs at small cities of North East.
    
    
  • As part of the initiative, Union IT minister also inaugurated the first electronics manufacturing cluster in the North-Eastern region in Guwahati.
    
    
  
  
  
• Implementation mechanism: The majority of the projects will be implemented by the Department of Telecom.