India is the world's ninth-largest economy and the third largest by purchasing power parity at $8 trillion. Yet manufacturing accounts for only 16 percent of the country's GDP, compared with the services sector's nearly 52 percent. India represents only 2 percent of the world's 'manufacturing output. As a result to make India one of self-sufficient in manufacturing sector, Make in India campaign was launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on Sep 25, 2014. As a support to make the country digitally empowered in the field of technology digital India was launched on 1 July 2015 with an objective of connecting rural areas with high-speed Internet networks and improving digital literacy by concentrating on three major areas - Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen, Governance & Services on Demand and Digital Empowerment of Citizen. After 'Digital India' and 'Make in India, the NaMo Government has launched assorted program Skill India in July 2015 with the aim of economically empowering every Indian by 2022 as a national priority over the next 10 years. In the present paper an attempt has been made to through some light on the awareness among students about the concept of make in India, digital India and skill India initiatives of the govt. A standard questionnaire was distributed among various graduate students. The collected data were analyzed by using regression and correlation coefficient to offer practical implications for findings based on the analysis.
Keywords
Purchasing Power Parity, GDP, Make in India, Digital Empowerment.
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