# Digital India programme is launched

Date: 2015

## The fact

On 1 July 2015 Prime Minister [Narendra Modi](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

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

## Significance

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

## What is established and what is not

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.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

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. Digital India programme is launched on 2015-07-01 is not a licence to treat every later Prime Minister’s Office of India communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Digital India programme is launched into a personality. 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.

## People

- Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-modi-digital-idUSKCN0PB41G20150701
- https://pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=122920

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/in-digital-india-2015