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Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan
India's PMGDISHA rural digital-literacy scheme enrolled 73,571,965 people, trained 63,941,718 and certified 47,836,188 by July 2024 through 20 hours of instruction in five digital-task modules.
63,941,718 people, candidates trained under pmgdisha, 2024-07-26. 47,836,188 people, candidates certified under pmgdisha, 2024-07-26. Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, retrieved 2026-09-02.
The move, and what it needed
MeitY used village-level centres, a standard five-module curriculum and external certifying agencies to move a digital-literacy offer through rural India at household scale, with certificates uploaded to DigiLocker.
Preconditions
- A delivery network able to reach Gram Panchayats and rural households
- A common curriculum covering devices, internet, citizen services and digital payments
- Independent assessment and an identity-linked certificate that makes completion portable
Where else it has been used: Digital-literacy programmes travel when training is tied to tasks people can immediately use and completion is independently checked; enrolment without post-training usage data can become a counting exercise.
Limits: The government reports administrative training and third-party certification totals, not independently tested digital competence or continued use of services. The scheme covered rural areas and one person per targeted household, so it is not a population-wide adult-skills rate; the source also does not report completion quality, attrition or post-training use.
This record describes what India delivered. It is linked to Adults doing digital tasks because no comparable dataset measures that capability. It does not affect the score or confidence.
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