National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM)

Overview of NDLM

Making one person in every family digitally literate is one of the integral components of the Prime Minister 's vision of “Digital India”.

The Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Scheme has been formulated to impart IT training to 52.5 lakh persons, including Anganwadi and ASHA workers and authorised ration dealers in all the States/UTs across the country so that the non-IT literate citizens are trained to become IT literate so as to enable them to actively and effectively participate in the democratic and developmental process and also enhance their livelihood. Altogether 52.5 lakh persons, including Anganwadi and ASHA workers and authorised ration dealers will be trained under the programme in two phases. In the first phase, 10 lakh beneficiaries will be trained under the scheme. Nine lakh beneficiaries will be eligible for training fee support from the government. The rest 100,000 beneficiaries will be trained by the industry and civil society partners.

Definition of DIGITAL LITERACY

“Digital Literacy is the ability of individuals and communities to understand and use digital technologies for meaningful actions within life situations”.
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India selected ISD as a training Partner of Uttarakhand state. Institute of Social Development selected 26 training parteners in Uttarakhand for free computer training. To aware the community about this government scheme pamphlets distributed in villages and urban areas. Community meeting also organised in these areas. Training partners registered 1474 trainees. Training imparted to these trainees on the following topics -

	Utility of computer education in daily life style,
	Functions of computer,
	Printer, scanner and other computer equipment,
	Knowledge about Internet/web/blog,
	Uses of Email, chatting and net surfing facilities,
	Uses of mobile phone and tablet,
	Sending and receiving email,
	Knowledge about Govt. online Schemes,
	Knowledge about rail reservation, passport, LPG and other reservation.

Progress achieved by ISD is as follows -