Public Wi-Fi Program under Digital India – Future Ahead

Now a day"s everybody wishes to remain connected in this digital world. Whether they are at their homes, their offices, their college, or whether they are at public places such as railway station, bus stops, and airport or at any mall, coffee shop, library or a hotel, lots of people just find a way to get connected with the worldwide via Wi-Fi hotspots on their mobile device. Soon after taking the power in 2014, NDA Government launched a champion named “Digital India” with the aim of bringing a systematic change in the bureaucratic apparatus and speed up work. Also NDA government came up with some innovative ideas like “Swachh Bharat Mission”, “Make in India”,” Skill India”, etc. Digitalization in India was already initiated in early 90s, especially in communication and technology but GOI was not able to implement it in proper manner due to political instability. The main objective of this paper is to highlight and analyze the collaboration between Internet giant Google and a Public sector unit “Railtel” for provision of free Wi-Fi service at 100 key railway stations in the country by the end of the year 2016. Indian Railway also targets to cover all 8500 railways stations with Wi-Fi facility by March 2019. It also includes the highlights of future projects from partnership with various private sectors in India.