European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

Digital india is a crown jewel programme introduced by indian government. Digital india programme consists of three vision areas. First vision area is providing digital infrastructure as utility for every individual, second vision area is providing services and governance for each individual of the nation on demand and third vision area deals with empowering citizens digitally. In terms of population, andhra pradesh state stood in tenth place in india. As per 2011 census, andhra pradesh female population is 2, 47, 46, 590. Andhra pradesh state’s rural women are 1, 74, 28,445 and the urban women are 73, 18, 145. Andhra pradesh state government in parallel with the central government put many efforts in empowering women in andhra pradesh through digital india programme. In this paper, an attempt is made to identify the impact of digital india on economic empowerment of urban and andhra pradesh state’s rural women, to make comparative investigation of the impact of digital india on economic empowerment of urban and rural women of the selected state and to pick out the challenges and affairs encountered while executing digital india for economic empowerment of women in the state.