{"id":4554,"date":"2022-07-26T17:48:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/26\/digital-india-how-indias-digital-revolution-is-connecting-millions\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T17:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T17:48:29","slug":"digital-india-how-indias-digital-revolution-is-connecting-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=4554","title":{"rendered":"Digital India: How India&#8217;s digital revolution is connecting millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Seven years ago, only 19% of India\u2019s 1.3 billion people had access to the internet. That figure now stands at nearly 60%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It\u2019s all part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s ambitious plan to make India a trillion-dollar digital economy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC\u2019s Shruti Menon travelled across the country to assess the success of the programme and to see how it has transformed people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">She also explored the challenges the government is facing as it continues to connect millions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Aakriti Thapar; Filmed and edited by Saraskanth TK<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-62262512?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Seven years ago, only 19% of India\u2019s 1.3 billion people had access to the internet. That figure now stands at nearly 60%. It\u2019s all part of Prime Minister Narendra &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}