New Delhi, Aug 20 (ANI): Post the cabinet meeting held earlier today, Union Law and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad confirmed that the monitoring committee of ‘digital India’ will be headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The Monitoring committee of ‘Digital India’ will be headed by the Prime Minister,” said Prasad in the cabinet briefing. On Independence Day, Prime Minister Modi had said that India is no longer known as the land of black magic and snake charmers and had added that that it was time for a ‘digital India’ and the idea will be used to revolutionize health and education in India by assuring the use of broadband for education for rural areas, and telemedicine for the poor.
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