PMGDISHA – Candidate Eligibilty Criteria

Eligible Household: A household is defined as a unit comprising of Head of family, spouse, children and parents. All such households where none of the family member is digitally literate will be considered as eligible household under the Scheme.

Entry criteria

The beneficiary should be Digitally Illiterate
Only one person per eligible household would be considered for training
Age Group: 14 – 60 years

Priority would be given to

Non-smartphone users, Antyodaya households, college drop-outs, Participants of the adult literacy mission
Digitally illiterate school students from class 9th to 12th, provided facility of Computer/ICT Training is not available in their schools

Preference would be given to SC, ST, BPL, women, differently-abled persons and minorities
The identification of the beneficiaries would be carried out by CSC-SPV in active collaboration with DeGS, Gram Panchayats, and Block Development Officers. The list of such beneficiaries would be made available on the scheme portal.