Lok Sabha Question No. 3135 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-14
Subject: Digital India Initiative
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: RAJESHBHAI NARANBHAI CHUDASAMA

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state: -

- (a) the details of the schemes and projects being implemented under the Digital India initiative;
- (b) the performance of the above said schemes and projects in the last two years, quarter-wise; and
- (c) the details of steps taken to bring more private participation and to speed up digitization and network growth for quick delivery and implementation of e-governance services in rural areas of the country, State-wise ?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR  ELECTRONICS AND  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI K. J. ALPHONS)

(a) and (b): The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India has  initiated  the  'Digital  India'  programme  with  the  vision  to  transform  India  into  a  digitally empowered  society  and  knowledge  economy.  Digital  India  is  an  umbrella  programme  that  covers multiple projects of various Central Ministries/Departments & States/UTs and is being coordinated by MeitY. Each project has its own budgetary requirement and accordingly project-plan has been charted out by the implementing departments.

The  present  status  of  some  of  the  key  initiatives  undertaken  under  Digital  India  programme  is  as follows:

## Pillar 1: Broadband Highways

-  Under National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)/BharatNet project, 2.66 lakh KMs of optical fibre pulled for 1,13,226 GPs and 1,03,730 GPs have been connected so far till 04.03.2018.

## Pillar 2: Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity

-  Rural Tele-density is 56.54% (as on 30 th November, 2017).

## Pillar 3: Public Internet Access Programme

-  Common Services Centres are taking digital services to every corner of India. Till February, 2018, there are 2,92,481 Common Services Centres (CSCs) functioning across the country, of which, 1,83,184 CSCs are at Gram Panchayat (GP) level.

## Pillar 4: E-Governance: Reforming government through Technology (as on 28 th February, 2018)

-  Aadhaar: Aadhaar provides 12 digit biometric and demographic based identity that is unique, lifelong,  online  and  authenticable.  Further  to  give  statutory  backing  to  Aadhaar  'The  Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016' was notified. Over 120+ crore residents have been enrolled.
-  Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT): 414 schemes of 56 Ministries/ Departments are there on DBT platform.  An amount of more than Rs. 3.42 Lakh Crore has been transferred through DBT and the Ministries/Departments  have  reported  savings  of  Rs.  57,029  crores  in  last  three  years  due  to implementation of schemes in DBT mode.
-  E-Office: It  is  a  Digital  Workplace  Solution  which  aims  to  usher  in  efficient,  effective  and transparent inter-government and intra-government transactions and processes. NIC has implemented e-Office  Portal  in  149  Central  Government  (Ministries/Departments)  and  122  State  Governments (Secretariats/District Administrations).

## Pillar 5: eKranti- Electronic delivery of services

-  3541 e-services are being provided through 44 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) under e-Kranti. More than 3081 crore e-transactions with an average of 252 crore transaction per month were done during the year 2017.
-  MyGov Platform: 45 Ministries are engaged actively on MyGov platform, reaching out to the citizens  through  the  fundamental  concepts  of  Do,  Discuss  and  Disseminate.  Presently,  53.26  lakh users  are  registered  with  MyGov,  participating  in  various  activities  hosted  on  MyGov  platform. MyGov  activities  are  structured  under  63  groups  consisting  of  718  tasks,  762  discussions,  243 Polls/Surveys and 166 talks.
-  Open Government Data platform: The portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/Departments  their  organizations  to  publish  datasets,  documents,  services,  tools  and applications  collected  by  them  for  public  use.  As  on  28 th February,  2018,  over  160,223  dataset resources under 4,239 catalogs contributed by 110 Ministry/Departments (85 Central and 25 states). 1,344  Visualizations  created,  3617-Application  Programming  Interfaces  (APIs)  created,  115  Chief Data  Officers.  OGD  India  has  15.13  million  times  viewed  and  5.53  million  datasets  have  been downloaded.

Pillar 6: Information for All (as on 28 th February, 2018)

## Pillar 7: Electronics Manufacturing - Target NET ZERO Imports (as on 28 th February, 2018)

-  242  Investment  proposals  under  Modified  Specific  Incentive  Programmes  (MSIPs)  having  a proposed  investment  of  Rs.  91,642  crore  have  been  so  far  received.  107  proposals  with  proposed investments of Rs. 21,494 crore have been approved.
-  21 Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (18 Greenfield EMCs and 3 Common Facility Centre (CFC) in Brownfield EMC) have been granted final approval and are under implementation.
-  Electronic Development Fund has been launched and 22 daughter funds have been approved with a commitment of Rs. 1,227 crore involving a total targeted corpus of Rs. 10,900 crore.

Pillar 8: IT for Jobs (as on 28 th February, 2018)

-  48,300 seats have been approved under India BPO scheme and over 31,732 seats have been allocated across 20 States and 2 UTs.
-  5000 seats have been approved for BPOs in North East and 1,610 seats have been allocated across 5 States in NER.
-  Under  National  Digital  Literacy  Mission/Digital  Saksharta  Abhiyan  (NDLM/DISHA),  53.67 lakh have been trained. Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharata Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) has been launched in October, 2017.
-  Pradhan  Mantri  Gramin  Digital  Saksharta  Abhiyan(PMGDISHA):  The  Scheme  is  aimed  at empowering the citizens by providing them access to information, knowledge and skills for operating computers/ digital access devices. Under the Scheme, a total of more than 1.05 crore candidates have been registered. A total of more than 1.04 crore candidates have been trained out of which more than 50 lakh candidates have been duly certified.

Pillar 9: Early Harvest Programme (as on 28 th February, 2018)

-  Over 107 lakh Digital Lockers have been opened. About 139 lakh documents have been selfuploaded.    42  Issuers  and  18  Requester  Organizations  have  been  on-boarded.  Digital  Locker Authority has been constituted and Digital Locker rules have been notified.
-  e-Hospital/Online Registration System (ORS) has been made operational in 142 hospitals and more than 13 lakh appointments have been taken online.
-  Public  Wi-Fi  hotspots: Wi-Fi  services  have  been  provided  at  90  tourist  sites  across  the country.
-  The  National  Scholarships  Portal(NSP) has  been  developed  as  a  one-stop  solution  to implement  end-to-end  disbursement  of  the  scholarship  to  the  beneficiaries.  The  process  includes student registration, application, approval and disbursement. It has enabled nearly 1.66 Crore students to submit application on a single portal for 52 different scholarships schemes.
-  National  Centre  for  Geo-Informatics  (NCoG) provides  Geographical  Information  System (GIS) based services to Government Ministries/Departments for sharing, collaboration, location based analytics  and  decision  support  system  (DSS)  for  various  organizations.  So  far,          23  applications across various domains are operational.
-  Rapid Assessment System has been integrated with 947 e-Services of 178 departments in 28 States/UTs.
-  Jeevan Pramaan is an Aadhaar enabled biometric Digital Life Certificate for pensioners. More than 159 lakh pensioners have registered themselves to avail of this facility for their life certificates.
-  eSign  -  Online  Electronic  Signature  Service: eSign  is  an  initiative  for  easy,  efficient,  and secure signing of electronic documents by an Aadhaar holder. Five agencies namely eMudhra Ltd., CDAC,  (n)Code  Solutions,  NSDL  e-Governance  Infrastructure Ltd. and Capricorn have been empanelled to offer e-Sign Services. Over 4.50+ crore eSigns have been issued.
- (c):    As  Digital  India  is  an  umbrella  programme  that  covers  multiple  projects  of  various  Central Ministries/Departments  &  States/UTs  and  is  being  implemented  by  concern  Ministry/Department. Each  Ministry/Department  has  its  own  agreement  with  company/agency.  MeitY  is  implementing following schemes to speed up digitization and network growth for quick delivery of e-governance services in rural areas of the country.
-  State  Wide  Area  Network  (SWAN): Under  this  Scheme,  technical  and  financial  assistance  are being provided to the States/UTs for establishing SWANs to connect all State/UT Headquarters up to the Block level via District/ sub-Divisional Headquarters, in a vertical hierarchical structure with a minimum bandwidth capacity of 2 Mbps per link.

Presently,  SWANs  have  been  made  operational  in  34  States  namely  Andhra  Pradesh,  Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh,  Delhi,  Gujarat,  Goa,  Haryana,  Himachal  Pradesh,  Jharkhand,  Kerala,  Karnataka, Lakshadweep, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland,  Meghalaya  Rajasthan  Dadar&  Nagar  Haveli  and  Daman  &  Diu.  The  States/UTs  are utilizing  the  core  infrastructure  of  SWAN  for  providing  the  closed  user  connectivity  to  various Government offices in the State/UTs.

-  State Data Centre (SDC): Under the SDC Scheme, establishing Data Centres in all the States/UTs has been proposed to consolidate services, applications and infrastructure in order to provide efficient electronic  delivery  of  Government  to  Government  (G2G),  Government  to  Citizen  (G2C)  and Government  to  Business  (G2B)  services.  Presently,  28  SDCs  have  been  made  operational  in  the States namely Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Goa Karnataka, Manipur,  Orrisha,  Sikkim,  Haryana,  Kerala,  Maharashtra,  Gujarat,  Tripura,  Rajasthan,  Nagaland, Uttar  Pradesh,  Andaman  &  Nicobar,  Madhya  Pradesh,  Lakshadweep,  Chhattisgarh,  Jammu  & Kashmir, Mizoram Bihar, Himachal Pradesh , Jharkhand and Punjab.
-  National Information Infrastructure (NII): A pilot project on National Information Infrastructure (NII)  in  one  district  each  of  the  7  States/UTs  namely  Chandigarh,  Peren  district  of    Nagaland, Trivandrum  district  of  Kerala,  Mysore  district  of  Karnataka,  Puducherry,  Haridwar  district  of Uttarakhand  and  Anand  district  of  Gujarat  for  providing  seamless  and  high  speed  bandwidth connectivity  upto  Gram  Panchayats  has  been  initiated.  The  pilot  in  Chandigarh,  Nagaland  and Pondicherry are completed and are delivering various e-governance services upto  Gram  Panchayat level.
-  e-District: The e-District Mission Mode Project (MMP) aims to provide high volume citizen centric services which are delivered from the district or sub-district level and are currently not covered by any other MMP. e-District services have been launched in 649 districts (including 40 pilot districts) across 32 States / UTs.
-  Common Services Centre (CSC) 2.0: MeitY  has  initiated  a  project  namely  'Common  Services Centre (CSC) 2.0' in August, 2015 at a total project outlay of Rs. 475.11 Cr for a period of four years, which aimed to set up at least one CSC at Gram Panchayat (GP) level to cover all the 2.5 lakh GPs across the country including the State of Andhra Pradesh. The key objective of CSCs is to deliver various  citizen  centric  services,  such  as,  Government  to  Citizen  (G2C),  Business  to  Citizen  (B2C) services, financial inclusion services, educational services, skill development services etc.

Till  February,  2018,  there  are  2,92,481  Common  Services  Centres  (CSCs)  functioning  across  the country,  of  which,  1,83,184  CSCs  are  at  Gram  Panchayat  (GP)  level.  The  number  of  CSCs  in  the country (State/UT-wise) is shown in Annexure.

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## ANNEXURE

| STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON 28 FEBRUARY, 2018   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON 28 FEBRUARY, 2018   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON 28 FEBRUARY, 2018   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON 28 FEBRUARY, 2018   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON 28 FEBRUARY, 2018   |
|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| S. No.                                                 | State                                                  | No. of Gram Panchayat (GP)                             | Total No. of CSCs including GP                         | No. of CSCs at GP level                                |
| 1                                                      | Andhra Pradesh                                         | 12917                                                  | 7951                                                   | 4391                                                   |
| 2                                                      | Arunachal Pradesh                                      | 1814                                                   | 76                                                     | 59                                                     |
| 3                                                      | Assam                                                  | 2548                                                   | 3117                                                   | 2435                                                   |
| 4                                                      | Bihar                                                  | 8315                                                   | 22611                                                  | 14231                                                  |
| 5                                                      | Chhattisgarh                                           | 10948                                                  | 12780                                                  | 9014                                                   |
| 6                                                      | Goa                                                    | 191                                                    | 48                                                     | 37                                                     |
| 7                                                      | Gujarat                                                | 14085                                                  | 14586                                                  | 7983                                                   |
| 8                                                      | Haryana                                                | 6205                                                   | 9318                                                   | 5784                                                   |
| 9                                                      | Himachal Pradesh                                       | 3226                                                   | 2944                                                   | 2269                                                   |
| 10                                                     | Jammu &Kashmir                                         | 4167                                                   | 2046                                                   | 1567                                                   |
| 11                                                     | Jharkhand                                              | 4398                                                   | 11397                                                  | 6785                                                   |
| 12                                                     | Karnataka                                              | 6021                                                   | 6308                                                   | 3112                                                   |
| 13                                                     | Kerala                                                 | 939                                                    | 2499                                                   | 1371                                                   |
| 14                                                     | Madhya Pradesh                                         | 22771                                                  | 20835                                                  | 14976                                                  |
| 15                                                     | Maharashtra                                            | 27977                                                  | 32325                                                  | 21795                                                  |
| 16                                                     | Manipur                                                | 165                                                    | 677                                                    | 334                                                    |
| 17                                                     | Meghalaya                                              | 1463                                                   | 217                                                    | 90                                                     |
| 18                                                     | Mizoram                                                | 713                                                    | 145                                                    | 116                                                    |
| 19                                                     | Nagaland                                               | 1203                                                   | 157                                                    | 122                                                    |
| 20                                                     | Odisha                                                 | 6804                                                   | 8398                                                   | 6690                                                   |
| 21                                                     | Punjab                                                 | 12922                                                  | 6653                                                   | 4260                                                   |
| 22                                                     | Rajasthan                                              | 9883                                                   | 14425                                                  | 9648                                                   |
| 23                                                     | Sikkim                                                 | 176                                                    | 32                                                     | 26                                                     |
| 24                                                     | Tamil Nadu                                             | 12507                                                  | 9542                                                   | 5289                                                   |
| 25                                                     | Telangana                                              | 8687                                                   | 5938                                                   | 3335                                                   |
| 26                                                     | Tripura                                                | 1178                                                   | 460                                                    | 380                                                    |
| 27                                                     | Uttar Pradesh                                          | 59018                                                  | 70916                                                  | 43825                                                  |
| 28                                                     | Uttarakhand                                            | 7957                                                   | 5088                                                   | 4460                                                   |
| 29                                                     | West Bengal                                            | 3328                                                   | 18394                                                  | 8657                                                   |
|                                                        | State Total                                            | 252526                                                 | 289883                                                 | 183041                                                 |
|                                                        | Union Territory                                        |                                                        |                                                        |                                                        |
| 1                                                      | Andaman & Nicobar                                      | 70                                                     | 56                                                     | 24                                                     |
| 2                                                      | Chandigarh                                             | 12                                                     | 83                                                     | 24                                                     |
| 3                                                      | Dadra &Nagar                                           | 20                                                     | 27                                                     | 12                                                     |

|    | Haveli        |        |        |        |
|----|---------------|--------|--------|--------|
| 4  | Daman and Diu |     14 |     13 |      2 |
| 5  | Delhi         |      0 |   2276 |      0 |
| 6  | Lakshadweep   |     10 |      8 |      3 |
| 7  | Puducherry    |     98 |    135 |     78 |
|    | UT Total      |    224 |   2598 |    143 |
|    | GRAND TOTAL   | 252750 | 292481 | 183184 |

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