Lok Sabha Question No. 3453 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-12-07
Subject: Digital Literacy
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: ADHIR RANJAN CHOWDHURY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(MeitY)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3453

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 07.12.2016

## DIGITAL LITERACY

## 3453.      SHRI ADHIR RANJAN CHOWDHURY:

Will the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology be pleased to state: -

- (a) whether the Government has launched Digital Literacy Mission for 60 million rural Indians with a view to making people digitally literate;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the details of Institutes / Labs functioning in the country as on date, State-wise;
- (d) whether any survey has been conducted to be shared with companies investing in startup projects to propagate digital literacy and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the share of SCs, STs and Minorities in digital literacy schemes, State-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI P.P. CHAUDHARY)

- (a)  to  (b):  Hon'ble  Finance  Minister,  while  presenting  the  Union  Budget  2016-17,  had  announced  to  launch  a  new Digital  Literacy  Mission  Scheme  for rural  India to  cover  around  6 crore  additional  households  within  the  next  three years. As a follow-up to this announcement, a new scheme to cover 6 crore rural households within the next three years has been formulated.
- (c): The Government has implemented two digital literacy schemes viz. National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) and Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan (DISHA). The implementing agency for these schemes is CSC e-Governance Services India Limited (CSC-SPV). The State-wise details of training partner / training centers affiliated with CSC-SPV is enclosed at

## Annexure-I.

- (d): National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has published the 71 st Round Survey Report titled 'Social Consumption Education Survey 2014', which inter-alia covers IT Literacy. The report is available in website of Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation at http://mail.mospi.gov.in/index.php/catalog/160.
- (e): The State-wise details of SCs, STs and Minorities certified under NDLM/DISHA schemes is enclosed at AnnexureII .

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Annexure-I

## State-wise Training Partner/Centers affiliated with CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd. for the NDLM / DISHA

Schemes

|   S.No | State        |   Training Partner |   Training Center |
|--------|--------------|--------------------|-------------------|
|      1 | Jharkhand    |                 64 |              3604 |
|      2 | Nagaland     |                  7 |               189 |
|      3 | Assam        |                 33 |              1796 |
|      4 | Mizoram      |                  5 |                92 |
|      5 | Maharashtra  |                 88 |              8416 |
|      6 | Chhattisgarh |                 43 |              3231 |
|      7 | Bihar        |                148 |              9176 |
|      8 | Manipur      |                  9 |               478 |
|      9 | Goa          |                  9 |                74 |
|     10 | Gujarat      |                 73 |              6296 |

| 11    | Arunachal Pradesh   |    8 |    112 |
|-------|---------------------|------|--------|
| 12    | Madhya Pradesh      |  211 |   7122 |
| 13    | Meghalaya           |    8 |     64 |
| 14    | Haryana             |   76 |   3652 |
| 15    | Uttar Pradesh       |  212 |  19405 |
| 16    | West Bengal         |  114 |   6508 |
| 17    | Tamil Nadu          |   40 |   3042 |
| 18    | Uttarakhand         |   59 |   2129 |
| 19    | Karnataka           |   50 |   3206 |
| 20    | Rajasthan           |  100 |   7111 |
| 21    | Himachal Pradesh    |   24 |   2007 |
| 22    | Odisha              |   53 |   3354 |
| 23    | Chandigarh          |   11 |    231 |
| 24    | Tripura             |   12 |    360 |
| 25    | Punjab              |   73 |   2489 |
| 26    | Andaman &Nicobar    |    2 |     10 |
| 27    | Andhra Pradesh      |   58 |   2920 |
| 28    | Dadra &Nagar Haveli |    2 |      1 |
| 29    | Daman &Diu          |    2 |      4 |
| 30    | Jammu &Kashmir      |   18 |   1075 |
| 31    | Kerala              |   16 |   1188 |
| 32    | Lakshadweep         |    1 |      1 |
| 33    | Delhi               |  102 |   1635 |
| 34    | Puducherry          |    7 |     75 |
| 35    | Sikkim              |    7 |    170 |
| 36    | Telangana           |   60 |   2436 |
| Total | Total               | 1805 | 103659 |

Annexure-II

## State-wise details of SC/ST/Minority candidates certified under NDLM / DISHA Schemes

|   S.No | State               |   Scheduled Caste |   Scheduled Tribe |   Minorities |
|--------|---------------------|-------------------|-------------------|--------------|
|      1 | Andaman &Nicobar    |                 6 |                 9 |          200 |
|      2 | Andhra Pradesh      |             27813 |              7364 |        20773 |
|      3 | Arunachal Pradesh   |                 5 |             12324 |          137 |
|      4 | Assam               |             12550 |             28490 |        60887 |
|      5 | Bihar               |            145762 |             23675 |       169039 |
|      6 | Chandigarh          |              3860 |               634 |         1287 |
|      7 | Chhattisgarh        |             68244 |             97062 |         9736 |
|      8 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli |                 1 |               280 |            9 |
|      9 | Daman &Diu          |               185 |               486 |          219 |
|     10 | Delhi               |             17915 |               582 |        18635 |
|     11 | Goa                 |               104 |               255 |          276 |
|     12 | Gujarat             |             50786 |             72944 |        49516 |
|     13 | Haryana             |             49720 |              1228 |         4154 |
|     14 | Himachal Pradesh    |             14125 |              3632 |         1170 |
|     15 | Jammu &Kashmir      |              2043 |              1996 |       239335 |
|     16 | Jharkhand           |             18159 |             29193 |        47834 |
|     17 | Karnataka           |             73980 |             20143 |        67034 |
|     18 | Kerala              |              5555 |               726 |        28112 |
|     19 | Lakshadweep         |                 0 |                 1 |            0 |
|     20 | Madhya Pradesh      |            141946 |             99608 |        61197 |
|     21 | Maharashtra         |            162240 |            131153 |        92803 |
|     22 | Manipur             |              2254 |             30300 |         1121 |
|     23 | Meghalaya           |                 6 |               141 |           16 |
|     24 | Mizoram             |              1457 |             18676 |            1 |

|   25 | Nagaland      |    179 |   26252 |    364 |
|------|---------------|--------|---------|--------|
|   26 | Odisha        |  24745 |   10981 |   5821 |
|   27 | Puducherry    |   2552 |      24 |    472 |
|   28 | Punjab        | 136293 |     587 |   3011 |
|   29 | Rajasthan     | 210495 |   74599 |  35705 |
|   30 | Sikkim        |    930 |   10202 |   1395 |
|   31 | Tamil Nadu    | 111882 |    3701 |  18674 |
|   32 | Telangana     |  34562 |   17208 |  29871 |
|   33 | Tripura       |  13852 |   15740 |  10057 |
|   34 | Uttar Pradesh | 226047 |   12193 | 172657 |
|   35 | Uttarakhand   |  50865 |    7237 |  35344 |
|   36 | West Bengal   | 251583 |   27127 | 576955 |

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