Digital Yatra – Taking India Forward
In the fast-changing landscape of India’s digital transformation, one initiative stands out in Telangana for its scale, its grassroots reach, and its ambition: Digital Yatra by the Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA). With the sunrise, our IT employees ride through buses from Hyderabad to the remotest villages (sometimes on Bike), carrying the light of digital knowledge. In schools tucked away in grassroots communities, we spend the day training students, guiding them with hands-on learning, and certifying their first steps into the digital world. Even in the farthest corners, the joy and gratitude we receive remind us why technology must reach everyone, everywhere.
Digithon Digital Yatra is a campaign of digital literacy, Cyber awareness, and inclusion. Launched by TITA, it builds on the earlier 100K Digithon campaign and aimed to traverse all the districts of Telangana, reaching rural and semi-urban communities. The goal: to bring citizens—especially students, small vendors, teachers, and government school children—into the fold of the digital age.
The program focuses on imparting basic digital skills, encouraging cashless transactions, familiarizing people with e-governance tools, and motivating schools to set up innovation clubs. More than 1,50,000 individuals have already benefited, with sessions ranging from computer basics and email creation to online payments and cybersecurity awareness.
A broad coalition of IT employees have volunteered and helped make this statewide mission possible. Along with volunteers from Hyderabad’s tech community and district-level education officials, implementation partners such as Robokalam Technologies worked quietly in the background to coordinate logistics, deliver workshops, and ensure that every session—from classroom activities to village demonstrations—maintained consistent quality.
With this yatra it has been sowing the seeds of technology and importance of cyber security, institutions ready for 21st Century by creating hundreds of innovation clubs in schools, and inspiring both students and teachers to embrace a digital future. It stands today as a model of how industry associations, government bodies, and committed partners can bridge the digital divide and bring true inclusion to the grassroots.
