A Study of Sustainable Digital India; Challenges and Opportunities with reference to Pune District.

Digital India is mainly the application of e-Governance to provide the government services to the citizens through the internet. This research paper highlights the main challenges and opportunities related to the implementation of e-Governance in India.This study investigates the success of e-Governance initiative in Digital India program with respect to various difficulties faced by users of e-Governance System in selected local governing bodies in Pune District from an individual perspective. To achieve digital empowerment of citizens, this study focuses on the government-to-citizen (G2C) domain. The other domains like G2E, G2G and G2B are out of the scope of this study. E-governance has become animportant and necessary tool in the context of reforming public administration. To analyze the pace of the changing administrative environment in Pune District, the changing character of administration in Pune District would necessitate qualitative shift in the structure and organization. The potentiality of ensuring citizen-administration partnership can be radically improved through e-governancethroughDigital Indiaprogram. This needs to be viewed from the background of traditional administrativeprocesses and the bureaucratic mind set in the District.