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Digital India is an initiative of the Government of India, under which government departments have to connect with the people of the country. The purpose of this scheme is to ensure that the government services can be accessible electronically to the public without use of paper. The purpose of this scheme is to connect the rural areas through High Speed Internet. A two-way platform will be built in this scheme where both (service providers and consumers) will be benefited. This will be an inter-ministerial initiative where all the ministries and departments will bring their services to the public such as health, education and judicial service, etc. The Public Private Partnership (PPP) model will be adopted as a choice. This scheme is one of the top priority projects of the Central Government. While there are many significant drawbacks like legal framework, lack of privacy, lack of data security rules, civilian autonomy abuses, and lack of parliamentary surveillance for Indian e-surveillance and Indian cyber insecurity. All these shortcomings will be removed before implementing Digital India.

After listing the characteristics of Latin-Americanization (political instability, heavy military involvement in government, both direct and indirect, use of anti-communism to the point of mania, economic, military and political dependence on the USA and other Western European countries etc.), the author inquires the tendencies in India towards Latin-Americanization. It is noted that although India does not resemble a Latin-American state today, there are ominous tendencies that can easily take this country towards that path. (DÜI-Sen)