Lok Sabha Question No. 1149 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-08
Subject: Digital Literacy
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: RAM CHARITRA, RAKSHA NIKHIL KHADSE, DEVJI MANSINGRAM PATEL, SUNIL KUMAR SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1149

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 08.02.2017

## DIGITAL LITERACY

## 1149 SHRI RAM CHARITRA NISAD: SHRIMATI RAKSHATAI KHADSE: SHRI DEVJI M. PATEL: SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

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

- (a) the  details  of  Digital  literacy  mission/  campaign  along  with  the  achievement  made. State-wise;
- (b) whether a large number of population do not have access to computer and other digital medium;
- (c) if so, whether Government proposes to provide computers to all the households and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether the Government proposes to spend Rs. 1,800 crore to train 60 million people across rural areas in three years under a digital literacy mission and if so, the details thereof along with the funds spent and the people benefitted so far under the mission, state-wise; and
- (e) whether  the  Common  Services  Centres,  e-Governance  Service  India  is  awaiting  the Government's nod for the said purpose and if so, the steps taken in this regard?

## ANSWER

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

(a): Government  had  implemented  two  digital  literacy  Schemes  viz.  National  Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) and Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) to impart digital literacy to  52.2  lakh  households  in  the  Country.  The  implementing  agency  for  these  schemes  was CSC e-Governance Services India Limited (CSC-SPV). The digital literacy targets envisaged under these scheme have been achieved. The State-wise achievements made under the above schemes is at Annexure.

(b): As  per  the  National  Sample  Survey  Office  (NSSO)  report  (NSS  71st  Round)  the proportion of households in the Country having computer during 2014 is 14% (only 6% of rural households and 29% of urban households possessed computer).

- (c): There is no such proposal to provide computers to the households in the Country.

(d) and (e): Hon'ble Finance Minister, while presenting the Union Budget 2016-2017, has 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  is  under  formulation  in  consultation  with various stakeholders.

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## Annexure

The State- wise details of achievements made under the National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) and Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) Schemes.

| State               |   Certified candidates |
|---------------------|------------------------|
| Andaman &Nicobar    |                    409 |
| Andhra Pradesh      |                 165661 |
| Arunachal Pradesh   |                   2139 |
| Assam               |                  20440 |
| Bihar               |                 440014 |
| Chandigarh          |                  13646 |
| Chhattisgarh        |                 172460 |
| Dadra &Nagar Haveli |                    182 |
| Daman &Diu          |                   1376 |
| Delhi               |                  80068 |
| Goa                 |                   1278 |
| Gujarat             |                 334432 |
| Haryana             |                 132302 |
| Himachal Pradesh    |                  31264 |
| Jammu &Kashmir      |                 121679 |
| Jharkhand           |                 114783 |
| Karnataka           |                 350068 |
| Kerala              |                  49357 |
| Lakshadweep         |                     20 |
| Madhya Pradesh      |                 365592 |
| Maharashtra         |                 404098 |
| Manipur             |                  31023 |
| Mizoram             |                   9507 |
| Nagaland            |                  12997 |
| Odisha              |                 121100 |
| Puducherry          |                  19016 |
| Punjab              |                  96962 |
| Rajasthan           |                 372029 |
| Sikkim              |                  10625 |
| Tamil Nadu          |                 291151 |
| Telangana           |                 184346 |
| Tripura             |                  42941 |
| Uttar Pradesh       |                 610189 |

| Uttarakhand   |   101881 |
|---------------|----------|
| West Bengal   |   641735 |
| Total         |  5346770 |

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