50 percent Indians will be digitally literate in 3 years: Prasad

In the next three years, the government aims to take digital literacy to at least 50 percent from the current level of 15 percent, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on 4 February. At an event to award the winners of the Digital India Week’s online quiz competition on cyber safety and cyber awareness, Prasad said 100 percent digital literacy was needed to make India a truly digitalised society. He said the world was keenly watching the developments in India and it was the responsibility of the youth to come up to expectations. He said more than 4,000 innovators have come to India to explore possibilities in the fields of IT and electronic manufacturing. Prasad said the knowledge economy will prove to be the driver of change, and initiatives of the government in this direction would place the country in a certain advantageous position. Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was recently appointed as the head of a high-powered panel that is now keeping an eye on Facebook . Not satisfied by the way things are going, the PMO has even appointed a high-powered panel to look into the matter. The committee is headed by Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and comprises of Jitendra Singh, minister of state for PMO, and Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan. With inputs from IANS