India is a land of villages with 68% of individuals living in around six lakh villages. Without prospering our villages India cannot progress. Since independence various programmes are initiated to develop Indian villages but failed. Indian villages look far behind compared to urban India. The approaching age is of data economy. With increasing use of smart phone, it's possible now to produce different services with one click. To bridge the gap of digital divide between rural and concrete India, Digital India launched on Independence Day, 2015 which is a dream project of Indian government to remodel rural India into a knowledgeable and digitally empowered society where all information and government services are available to them on one click. It’s a step of the government to motivate and connect rural India to a knowledgeable world. The time to come is the digital time, and perhaps the right time to develop more rural areas, because now it has become easy to reach them and educate them through digital medium. The reach of the government has now become better than the first years. It has been possible to provide all types of services on one click with the growing use of smart phones. The vision aims to rework India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy through infrastructural reforms like high -speed internet to all Gram Panchayats, lifelong digital identification of all citizens by linking them with AADHAR, mobile banking to any or all, easy accessibility to common services centres (CSCs) etc. The programme is to wipe out the digital divide between rural and urban India, connecting and empowering 130 crores Indians with offering them variety of digital solutions in almost every sector whether it's education, health, agriculture, administration so on while generating huge employment through CSCs and IT jobs.

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Keywords: Digital India, Empowered Economy, Internet, Digital Literacy, Rural Development.