pune egovernance and digital ecosystem in the city are set for a major fillipthe pune municipal corporation has come up with a digital strategy document for the city for the next three years 20182020 to boost digital transactions and use of technologybased tools in daily lifeas a part of the strategy about 12 major goals have been identified including laying of 2500km of fibre connectivity and commencement of 500 wifi hotspots across the city the strategy document has also focused on 100 digital literacy among residents and ensuring that 90 of pmcs transactions are cashless by 2020 besides it has also emphasized on setting up 25 ehealth centres to deliver 29 diagnostic tests and targeted service notifications to 25 lakh householdsa document pertaining to the strategy and its implementation was recently published by the civic administration it has also highlighted existing status of the citys digital reach as per the document 64 of the citys households have access to cellphones and 22 of the households have access to laptopcomputer with internet connectionmunicipal commissioner kunal kumar said the digital strategy document provides a threeyear action plan for the city to become truly digital the purpose of the strategy was to set an agenda with clear goals before the administration to provide digital ecosystem comprising digital infrastructure services and cashless payment being the centre of the it sector the city was well placed to gain from this digital strategy kumar addedhe said the city has already started its journey towards digital goals and some major projects are about to be implementedpmc officials said a plan would be chalked out for effective implementation of the initiatives and achieve the goals set under the digital strategy the administration has set up over 100 wifi hotspots in association with the pune smart city development corporation limited pscdcl these cover major public spaces and gardens the response to the initiative has been tremendous so far besides the civic body launched an advanced version of pmc care this week to expand the online services and also increase involvement of people in better planning and execution of projects the officials addedpmc said it has completed mapping of the public utilities including water pipelines public toilets and other amenities through geographic information system gis