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Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA)

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India's national rural digital literacy scheme trained 63.9 million people across 81,930 centres in 22 Indian languages, equipping one member per rural household with digital skills. Exceeded its 60-million target by March 2024.

63.9 million

People trained

81,930

Training centres

Indian languages

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) / CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd.
Period: 2017–2024
Keywords: Rural communities, women, low-income households, persons with disabilities, digital literacy

Context

India's Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) is a national rural digital-literacy scheme equipping one member per rural household with digital skills.

Results

The scheme trained 63.9 million people across 81,930 centres in 22 Indian languages, exceeding its 60-million target by March 2024.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-06-21
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) / CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd. — accessed 2026-06-21
PIB Press Release – 6.39 crore trained (March 2024) — accessed 2026-06-21
IMPRI Impact and Policy Research – PMGDISHA analysis — accessed 2026-06-21
PMC – Quasi-experimental study of rural India digital literacy training — accessed 2026-06-21

Quality score: 88/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 18% in this catalogue (573 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level2/5

Multilingual delivery (22 Indian languages) via 81,930 CSC-based last-mile training centres is a substantial contextual adaptation, though the 20-hour curriculum content is standard digital literacy.

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Government-funded and institutionally anchored under MeitY from 2017 to March 2024—a sustained 7-year national scheme that concluded after exceeding its target, not a pilot.

Evaluation evidence1/1

Two PIB official press releases confirm 63.9 million trained (exceeding target); PMC-indexed quasi-experimental study corroborates positive digital literacy outcomes in rural India.

Demonstrated reach1/1

63.9 million rural citizens trained across all Indian states, explicitly targeting women, SC/ST, persons with disabilities, and BPL households.

Documented learning1/1

Implementation documented across 34 state/district workshops, government reports, and academic publications; the distributed CSC model offers transferable lessons for large-scale rural digital literacy.

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