<div>Amid flip-flops on the appointment of Digital India brand ambassadors, the government today clarified that it had appointed four persons for a year during the Digital India week on July 1-7 and no other person has been appointed thereafter.<br /><br />Yesterday, Ankit Fadia, the self-proclaimed "ethical hacker", said he has been appointed the brand ambassador of Digital India on July 1. He also posted a picture of the certificate on Facebook, prompting the social media to get into an overdrive.<br /><br />"As part of the Digital India week (July 1-7, 2015), four brand ambassadors were nominated for a period of one year to propagate the product and applications are being launched by the department under the Digital India programme," an official statement said.<br /><br />Those who have been picked as the brand ambassadors are Satwat Jagwani, all-India IIT-JEE—Advanced Topper 2015, Krati Tiwari, IIT-JEE —Advanced Girl Topper 2015, Fadia, and Pranav Mistry, a computer scientist and the author of '6th Sense'.<br /><br />"Thereafter, no other person has been appointed as Brand Ambassador for Digital India," the statement said.<br /><br />The statement further added that services of these brand ambassadors will be used, as and when required, to generate mass awareness for the programme.<br /><br />The government issued a denial in the morning today which stated, "There were certain news reports that there is move to appoint a brand ambassador for the Digital India Programme of the government. This is to clarify that there has been no such move to appoint a brand ambassador as reported."<br /><br />The government though withdrew it a few hours later and issued a fresh statement in the evening.<br /><br />"When the Prime Minister announced the Digital India programme in Delhi, I was invited to that and I received a certificate as one of the brand ambassadors of the programme," Fadia told PTI yesterday. <br /></div>
<div>Amid flip-flops on the appointment of Digital India brand ambassadors, the government today clarified that it had appointed four persons for a year during the Digital India week on July 1-7 and no other person has been appointed thereafter.<br /><br />Yesterday, Ankit Fadia, the self-proclaimed "ethical hacker", said he has been appointed the brand ambassador of Digital India on July 1. He also posted a picture of the certificate on Facebook, prompting the social media to get into an overdrive.<br /><br />"As part of the Digital India week (July 1-7, 2015), four brand ambassadors were nominated for a period of one year to propagate the product and applications are being launched by the department under the Digital India programme," an official statement said.<br /><br />Those who have been picked as the brand ambassadors are Satwat Jagwani, all-India IIT-JEE—Advanced Topper 2015, Krati Tiwari, IIT-JEE —Advanced Girl Topper 2015, Fadia, and Pranav Mistry, a computer scientist and the author of '6th Sense'.<br /><br />"Thereafter, no other person has been appointed as Brand Ambassador for Digital India," the statement said.<br /><br />The statement further added that services of these brand ambassadors will be used, as and when required, to generate mass awareness for the programme.<br /><br />The government issued a denial in the morning today which stated, "There were certain news reports that there is move to appoint a brand ambassador for the Digital India Programme of the government. This is to clarify that there has been no such move to appoint a brand ambassador as reported."<br /><br />The government though withdrew it a few hours later and issued a fresh statement in the evening.<br /><br />"When the Prime Minister announced the Digital India programme in Delhi, I was invited to that and I received a certificate as one of the brand ambassadors of the programme," Fadia told PTI yesterday. <br /></div>