Kerala became the first digital state in the country.

Kerala became the first digital state in the country.

•    State got this status after linking all villages in the state with broadband connectivity under the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project.
•    President Pranab Mukherjee declared Kerala as the first digital state by launching a digital empowerment campaign in Kozhikode.
•    Kerala is also the first state to complete the NOFN project—initiated in 2011—in the country.
•    Idukki in Kerala in January 2015 achieved the status of being the first district in India which got connected by high-speed broadband.
•    NOFN uses Gigabit Passive Optical Network technology to enable a single optical fibre to serve multiple premises.
•    This achievement of kerla has been prime focus of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious ‘Digital India’ project.
•    In order to create participative, transparent and responsive government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the much ambitious 'Digital India' programme on July 1, 2015.
•    With the launch of Digital India programme, the government took a big step forward to transform the country into a digitally empowered knowledge economy.
•    It Includes various schemes worth over Rs 1 lakh crore like Digital Locker, e-eduction, e-health, e-sign and national scholarship portal.
•    BharatNet in 11 states and Next Generation Network (NGN), are also a part of Digital India campaign.