-Digital India programme is a programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy .This dream project of India government was launched on 1st July 2015 by prime minister Narendra Modi.. The project preparing North-East for Digital India is approved by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) to support the Digital India initiative . In North East as well as in Tripura local venders are using online apps for payment through e-wallet , Paytm etc. implementation of cashless transaction in petrol pump ,medical stores , departmental stores etc are increasing day by day. The tribal youth of the state are very enthusiastic about the Digital India programme . Each and every day they are learning and teaching the different dimensions of this programme among their society and beyond . But their society are suffering with some burning problems in the field of implementation of digitization such as lingual problem, financial problem , lack of proper guidance , communication problem, society inertia, non uniform reservation facility distribution among them etc. It is urgent to take some remedial steps in government policy to overcome those problems . Some of the remedial steps may be- setting up of more number of government managed English medium school in each tribal locality , also to encourage the private enterprises for setting up of more number of English medium school in rural areas , to arrange awareness programme among rural illiterate parents to encourage education of their children , making strict policy and programme to eradicate the belief on superstition and unscientific treatment etc.
The present paper aims to discuss the impact ,progress , to reveal the problems and also to suggest some remedial measures of Digital India programme on tribal society in north-east india and specially in Tripura . The method is descriptive survey and data is used from primary as well as secondary sources. Findings of the study reveal not only the present problems and challenges in the state, but also attempts to find out possible solution in order to overcome those maladies
Key words: Digitization , digital India, society inertia.
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