Minimum Government and Maximum Governance: Empowering the Impoverished Through Digital India Campaign

Abstract

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for ‘minimum government and maximum governance’ aims at addressing India’s complexity of governance. The poor and marginalised sections are invisible in governance. In overcoming this lacuna, Digital India (with its nine pillars) endeavours for digital empowerment in creating a knowledgeable society where people’s participation in policy formulation and governance of the welfare are given primacy. The minimalist role of governance is to increase people’s engagement in building new India, and Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) reflects Mahatma Gandhi’s sarvodaya and Deendayal Upadhyaya’s philosophy of antyodaya (the rise of the last person).