BENGALURU: The much anticipated Digital India project is geared up and is now all set deliver its services very shortly, the project is the brainchild of PM Narenedra Modi to connect the nation digitally.
According to the report of the ET the government is planning to release possible data digitally under the project, for free. Relatively, The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is assigned to assess and list out the data that can be exposable and non exposable.
As of the current adopted system, to reveal information from the national sample surveys, Annual Survey of Industries and the economic census, the government is charging and is earning an average of 7 crore per year. But as some claim that the money spent on the census work is derived from the taxpayers, it should not be chargeable.
That ministry which is all set to go-ahead on calculations is unlikely to share any information on the process and has planned to limit the accessibility of the data of individuals and their names.
The ministry is supposed to submit the detailed report to the National Statistical Commission chairman Pronab Sen, and will recommend on confidential and the disclosable data. Comparatively, if the new system is implemented, users do not have to pay to avail any sort of available information from the government
An official of the respective department, who doesn’t want to let slip his name said "We identify units with the help of geospatial data which is many a time sensitive from security point of view."
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