• The erstwhile National Digital Communication Policy 2012 was replaced by National Digital Communication Policy 2018.
• It is to promote the scheme of ‘Digital India’ to build a robust digital economy and last mile internet connectivity.

Key Features:

• To Provide every citizen broadband connectivity at 50 Mbps.
• Provide 1Gbps Connectivity to all gram panchayats by 2020 and 10 Gbps by 2022.
• Special Focus a unconnected areas especially rural.
• To Create a new data protection regime to safeguard the right to privacy of consumers.
• To Integrate population with the global digital economy.
• To attract investments of USD 100 billion in the digital communications sector.
• Train one-million-man power for building New Age Skill.
• To Foster Internet of things ecosystem to 5 Billion connected devices.
• Enforce Accountability through appropriate institutional mechanism to assure citizen of safe and secure digital communications infrastructure and services.

Digital Divide (Need for Digital literacy)

• It refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communication technology and those don’t have or restricted access.
• In India the Digital Divide is high, in regional context the urban area has more digitally literate citizens than rural counter parts.
• To Bridge this gap government of India has launched ‘Digital India’, a comprehensive scheme to cover all the aspects from banking, education etc.