Digital Empowerment and Inclusive Growth in India : With Special Reference to Eshakti

Inclusive growth gives an economy a holistic development in other words it gives sustainable growth in socio, economic and political parameters of growth. With the growth of digital sector inclusive growth has further been strengthened. Digital empowerment eases the process of achieving the components of inclusive growth. The growth of digitization of the data and digitalization process has removed the boundaries of the economies and has crossed many miles. Digitalization integrates all the digitized data and information in one network and brings on one platform. The Digital Devolution Index (DEI) helps to gauge the progress of digitization of a country in the world. India ranks 53rd out of 60 countries in the world in digitalization index but 15th in case of countries momentum towards improvement in digitization showing positive attitude towards digitization. In this regard the GoIs initiative of ‘Digital India Program’ has a mission to develop required infrastructure, training and integrates all departments so that Digital empowerment can be attained. NABARD has taken a step forward towards digitization by introducing E-Shakti, an initiative that will help digitize the activities of SHGs and bridge gap between SHGs and Financial Institutions. Digital platform will also help them to spread their physical network