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79% of metro residents believe employment will rise with Digital India: Survey

Survey was done by Vivoki India, a research analytics and Knowledge processing startup, in four metros. The sample survey size was 5,000.
79% of metro residents believe employment will rise with Digital India: Survey

Seventy-nine percent of the people have firm faith that digital India will contribute to employment access in all sectors in the next five years under the current government and thus reduce unemployment. This was revealed in the latest survey by Vivoki India, research analytics and knowledge processing startup, which surveyed 5000 people in the metros. 

The hope is unprecedented against the backdrop that the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) put out by National Statistic Office (NSO has highlighted worrying trends in the job market as the unemployment rate among young urban job seekers has been on the rise. The overwhelming response in the survey came for social security and safety as 82% felt that it should be top of the charts.

The survey was done to highlight the demands and expectation of Digital India -- the youth -- from the current government. "Despite taking effort to improve e-governance, India stood at 107th place in the world in e-governance according to UN e-governance Index. Many initiatives have been taken towards the introduction of Information Technology to empower people in areas relating to health, education, labor and employment, commerce, etc., in the past. We can see the difference in the number of internet users and improved e-governance. Still, there is digital illiteracy in many parts of India. ‘Digital India’ will be a success when its benefits are available to every citizen of India,” said Deepa Sayal, Executive Director, Vivoki India, and Director & Co-Founder, ADG Online Solutions.

Further, 74% of respondents feel that employment scare can be handled if the current government undertake empowerment of citizens through Digital Literacy and universal access to Digital skill set. Digital India is a program to transform India into a digitally-empowered society and knowledge economy. Launched on July 1, 2015, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is both enabler and beneficiary of other key Government of India schemes, such as, Make in India and start up India and many others. Seventy-two per cent of the urban respondents feels that rural internet participation should increase to contribute to the GDP in the long run and strengthen economy under the current government. 

Respondents also felt that role of GeM marketplace is also important in improving the Indian economy. Government e-Marketplace (GeM), a national public procurement platform, will turn three soon and last year August's data shows that over $1.45 Bn (INR 10,000 Cr) in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) through more than $8.96 K (INR 6.16 Lacs) transactions on the platform. 63% felt that GEM e-marketplace (GEM 3.0) benchmarking should be better aligned by the government for the SMB and SME Marketplace in order to build the Indian economy.

When asked, if the current government work towards making India a cashless economy to improve upon overall CAGR only 53% of the respondents supported a cashless economy and 44% were against it.

Response to Tele-medicine and Mobile Healthcare Facilities too was lukewarm as only 52% of the respondents said aye and 38% were for 'no' regarding assigning top priority to the new government for it.

 

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