Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.

Less land, less time, more crop.

We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child remains illiterate. I request all the social institutions and the media world to create a joyous environment for education in the month of June (when schools re-open), an environment to encourage children to go to school. We will derive the satisfaction of having done a social good.

School can become a temple of learning only when the student, the guardian, and the society, in harmony, endeavor to make it a place of pursuit for education, a sadhana; where the spring of punctuality, sanctity and thirst for knowledge flows.

Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard.

National security is a serious matter and I do not think it is in proper to discuss such details in a public forum.

Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.