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#FitIndia (Fit India Movement)

FIT INDIA Movement was launched on
29th August, 2019 by PM Narendra Modi with
a view to make fitness an integral part of
our daily lives. The mission of the Movement
is to bring behavioural changes and move
towards a more physically active lifestyle.
The movement emphasises the importance of
holistic wellbeing, encompassing both physical
and mental health.
The human body’s rawest form of
'FREEDOM' used for the ‘FIT India Freedom
Run’, has resonated with Indians. In the three
'Fit India Freedom Runs' organised in 2020,
2021 and 2023, over seven crore citizens
participated. ‘Fit India’ has now become a
national movement.

#DigitalIndia (Digital India Initiative)
The Digital India programme was launched
by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on July
01, 2015 with an aim to transform India into
a knowledge-based economy and a digitally
empowered society by ensuring digital
services, digital access, digital inclusion, digital
empowerment and bridging the digital divide.
Few initiatives include:
x ₹More than 135 crore Aadhaar Cards have
empowered residents, especially the poor
and vulnerable, to seamlessly avail the
benefits of government services.
x ₹DigiLocker- Around 18.38 crore users are
using the App and 622 crore documents are
digitally stored in the cloud.
x ₹eHospital- More than 1,000 hospitals across
India have been enabled with the eHospital
facility.
x ₹National Scholarship Portal (NSP)- More
than 100 Scholarship schemes of Central/
State Governments are available on NSP
Portal.
x ₹To further mitigate the language barrier,
Bhashini, an AI enabled national language
translation platform has been launched to
ensure access to the internet for citizens
who do not know English. As on date,
1000+ pre-trained AI models for language
translation in 10 Indian languages have been
made available on the Bhashini platform.

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