Cabinet approves mission to improve rural digital literacy
The Union Cabinet has approved the 'Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan' which aims to make six crore rural households digitally literate. Implemented by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, it is expected to be one of the largest digital literacy programmes globally. The mission, which aims to achieve its goal by March 2019, has an outlay of ₹2,351.38 crore.