Lok Sabha Question No. 1874 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-07
Subject: Digital India
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: SHIVKUMAR CHANABASAPPA UDASI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1874

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 07.03.2018

## DIGITAL INDIA

## 1874.   SHRI SHIVKUMAR UDASI:

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

- (a). the progress recorded under the 'Digital India' campaign initiated by the Government;
- (b). the  number  of  companies  which  have  entered  into  an  agreement  under  the  'Digital India'; and
- (c). the  amount  of  investment  and  the  number  of  employment  opportunities  generated through these initiatives?

## ANSWER

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

(a):  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 9 pillars of Digital India programme is as follows:

## Pillar 1: Broadband Highways

-  Under  National  Optical  Fibre  Network  (NOFN)/BharatNet  project,  2.65  lakh  KMs  of optical  fibre  laid  for  1,12,677 GPs  and  1,03,289  GPs  have  been  connected  so  far  till 25.02.2018.

## 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 January, 2018, there are 2,92,406 Common Services Centres (CSCs) functioning across the country; among which, 1,83,005 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): 412 schemes of 56 Ministries/ Departments are there on DBT  platform.    An  amount  of  more  than  Rs.  2.88  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 eKranti. 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,  3617Application 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.
-  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

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

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 self-uploaded.  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., C-DAC, (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.

(b):  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.  However,  National  e-Governance  Division(NeGD),  MeitY  has  signed agreement to carry out various activities under Digital India as follows:

-  Under Digital Locker-18
-  Consulting Companies-6
-  Advertising agencies- 10
-  Audio visual agencies- 2
-  Translation agencies - 4
-  Digital Media Services Agencies- 17
-  Website/Microsite and App Development Agencies- 17
-  Gamification- 8
-  Game Development - 3
-  Outreach Agencies- 4

(c):  Amount of investments generated under some of the schemes under Digital India are as follows:

-  Under Modified Specific Incentive Programmes (MSIPs): A proposed investment of    Rs. 91,642 crore for 242 proposals.
-  Electronic Development Fund(EDF): 22 daughter funds have been approved with a  commitment  of  Rs.  1,227  crore  involving  a  total  targeted  corpus  of  Rs.  10,900 crore.
-  Electronics  Manufacturing  Clusters(EMC): 21  EMCs  with  project  cost  of  Rs. 3645 crore including Government of India Grant-in-aid of Rs. 1477 crore.

The Job opportunities generated under some of the initiatives as follows:

-  BPO Promotion schemes: More than 1.50 Lakh
-  Common Services Centre (CSC): More than 10 Lakh
-  Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMC): More than 10 Lakh
-  Cellular Mobile Handset & components manufacturing: 4.50 Lakh

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