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Digital India programme is launched

On 1 July 2015 Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India programme, a Union umbrella for broadband, e-governance, and digital public infrastructure. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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On 1 July 2015 Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India programme, a Union umbrella for broadband, e-governance, and digital public infrastructure.

Context

MeitY implements. States and private operators build. He owned the launch. He did not sit as every tower contractor. Later UPI and Aadhaar-stack uses are neighbouring later instruments.

UPI in 2016 is a neighbouring later payments instrument. IT intermediary rules in 2021 are a neighbouring later control file.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

Why it matters

The path is digital access: a completed national digital-infrastructure programme is a dated connectivity-and-services instrument.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Narendra Modi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.55 · verified

    He launched the programme. MeitY and states implement. Operators still build networks.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — India’s Modi launches Digital India campaignReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.PMO — PM launches Digital IndiaPrime Minister’s Office of India · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Prime Minister’s Office of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: a 1 July 2015 launch of Digital India as a Union digital-infrastructure programme.

Not established: a unique later internet-user coefficient from launch day, or that every village was connected that morning.

MeitY and states implement. Operators still build networks.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Digital India programme is launched, not a later speech about Digital India programme is launched.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He launched the programme. MeitY and states implement. Operators still build networks. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorNarendra Modi
  2. contributed toFactDigital India programme is launched
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Digital India programme is launched. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/in-digital-india-2015

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Accessed 15 October 2026.

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