Zindagi Dot Com is a weekly TV serial based national e-governance plan (NeGP) to generate awareness about this plan and the different aspects of this, like the various mission mode projects and e-services. Telecasting every Sunday at 10:00 PM on Doordarshan and a repeat telecast is on DD Bharati every Monday at 8:30 PM. The plot of the serial specify the difficulties in accepting e-governance service and their possible solution. The show contains the story of two different localities of India, a village Kishangarh, and a developed city. Mithilesh Kumar, the protagonist, has the qualification in M.A. and a diploma in Computer, still unemployed.
His father Suresh Kumar is a Sanskrit teacher and always enforces him to get a good job. Generation gap and lack of understanding can be seen easily between father and son. Mithilesh Kumar is a nice person by heart, and frustrated as he did not get a good job and unable to fulfill his father’s expectations. One day his friend Mukul invested in some company, but when Mithilesh Kumar investigates about the company he found this company is a fraud. He was helping his friend but unfortunately, he trapped, and his family was facing many problems because of him.
Then his father planned to him at his uncle’s home Kishangarh, to work as a computer operator in Common Services Centre Kishangarh (CSC). Moreover, in Kishangarh, the Panch Vikram Singh was the source of corruption and chaos. He always makes villager’s life miserable by taking bribes. All the corrupted work of Vikram Singh was not in the Sarpanch’s knowledge as he trusted him blindly. After the heroic entrance of Mithilesh Kumar things settle down in Kishangarh. Solving problems with the use of e-governance services was like a magic for the natives of the Kishangarh village. It was a faster and a cheaper process.
The Sarpanch of the village was impressed with Mithilesh Kumar’s work and understood the idea of digitization. After which he encourage Mithilesh Kumar to do all the works in his own way and bring an evolution in the Kishangarh. This show represents e-governance services as a medium for establishing a healthy communication between a common man and the Government. When there is no one between us and the Government corruption will be vanished consequently.
In the serial, the viewers can learn more about e-governance sites and the correct procedure to retrieve some information from these sites and submit some queries, so this show not only entertains the viewers but provides a bag of useful information about e-governance. This show is all about how e-governance services can help to make India developed as the development of the single person is required for the development of the whole country and how to beat corruption and can make our life simpler and faster..