• It is expected to be one of the largest digital literacy programme in the world.
• It targets the rural digital literacy.
• It will mitigate the lacunae found in 71st National Sample Survey Organisation – NSSO – which found that only 6% of the total rural households have a computer.

Earlier, the Government had implemented the National Digital Literacy Mission or the Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) 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.