Lok Sabha Question No. 6420 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-04-12
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: HEMANT TUKARAM GODSE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION NO. 6420

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 12.04.2017

## DIGITAL  INDIA  PROGRAMME

## 6420.    SHRI GODSE HEMANT TUKARAM:

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

- (a) the  present  status  of  Digital  India  Programme  along  with  the  success  achieved  against  the  target  set  and  the  funds allocated to States under the programme so far, State-wise;
- (b) the details of companies and individuals registered/been a part of Digital Campaign;
- (c) whether the Government has identified new areas which require immediate digital initiative;
- (d) if so, the details thereof and the fresh initiatives taken by the Government in this regard;
- (e) the scheme/works undertaken under Digital India Programme at district level and the details of districts in which the schemes has been launched and implemented, State-wise including Gujarat; and
- (f) the steps taken by the Government to make all districts in the country as digital districts and the time frame fixed for the same?

## ANSWER

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

(a):    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.

Digital  India  aims  to  provide  the  much  needed  thrust  to  nine  pillars  of  growth  areas  that  is  (i)  Broadband  Highways,  (ii) Universal  Access  to  Mobile  Connectivity,  (iii)  Public  Internet  Access  Programme,  (iv)  e-Governance  -  Reforming Government  through  Technology,  (v)  e-Kranti-  Electronic  delivery  of  services,  (vi)  Information  for  All,  (vii)  Electronics Manufacturing - Target NET ZERO Imports, (viii) IT for Jobs and (ix) Early Harvest Programmes. The present status of some of the key initiatives under Digital India progamme is as follows:

## Pillar 1: Broadband Highways

-  Under National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project, as on 2 nd April, 2017, optical fibre has reached to 90,027 Gram Panchayats and optical fiber cable has been laid for 2,02,675 kms.

## Pillar 2: Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity

-  Rural Tele-density 56.15% (as on 31 st January, 2017).

## Pillar 3: Public Internet Access Programme

-  As on 31 st March, 2017, a total of 2,91,366 Common Services Centres (CSCs) have been registered across the country, among which, 1,81,173 are at Gram Panchayats(GP) level. Out of the total registered CSCs, 2,50,345 CSCs are active and transacting for delivery of eServices; out of this, 1,59,633 are at GP level.

## Pillar 4: E-Governance: Reforming government through Technology

-  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 113 crore residents have been enrolled as on 31 st March, 2017.
-  Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT): As on 28 th February 2017, 84 schemes of 17 Ministries/ Departments are there on DBT platform.    Ministries/Departments  have  reported  savings  of                  Rs  49,560  crores  in  last  three  years  due  to implementation of schemes in DBT mode.
-  Number of user Departments for e-Office is 137 as on 31 st March, 2017.

## Pillar 5: eKranti- Electronic delivery of services

-  3325 e-services are being provided through 44 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) under e-Kranti. More than 1221.68 crore e-transactions with an average of 101.80 crore transaction per month were done during Financial Year of 2016-17.
-  MyGov Platform: As on 10th April, 2017, 45 Ministries are engaged actively on MyGov platform, reaching out to the citizens through the fundamental concepts of Do, Discuss and Disseminate. Presently, 41.45 lakh users are registered with MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform. MyGov activities are structured under 56 groups consisting of 611 tasks, 710 discussions, 237 Polls/Surveys and 121 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 31 st March, 2017, over 75,591 resources under 4116 catalogs have been published by 105 Ministries/Departments (81 Central and   24 states).

Pillar 6: Information for All

## Pillar 7: Electronics Manufacturing - Target NET ZERO Imports (as on 31 st March, 2017)

-  269 Investment proposals under Modified Specific Incentive Programmes (MSIPs) having a proposed investment of Rs. 1.57 lakh crores have been so far received. 95 proposals with investment of Rs. 20,000 crore have been approved.
-  15 Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMCs) 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 Cr involving a corpus of Rs. 10,906 Cr.

## Pillar 8: IT for Jobs (as on 31 st March, 2017)

-  48,300 seats have been approved under India BPO scheme and over 15,200 seats have been allocated.
-  5000 seats have been approved for BPOs in North East and 1,460 seats have been allocated.
-  Under Digital  Saksharta  Abhiyan  (DISHA)  Scheme,  around  82.74  lakh  candidates  have  been  trained  and  more  than 53.46 lakh candidates have been certified.

## Pillar 9: Early Harvest Programme (as on 31 st March, 2017)

-  Over 48.91 lakh Digital Lockers have been opened. About 72.66 lakh documents have been self-uploaded and more than 165 crore documents have been issued.  24 Issuers and 7 Accepters 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  73  hospitals  and  more  than  53.04  lakh appointments have been taken online.
-  More than 1.85 lakh contributors now registered on the Digitize India platform. 8.56 lakh documents are digitized through Digitize India platform.
-  Public Wi-Fi hotspots: Wi-Fi services have been provided at 79 tourist sites.
-  The National Scholarships Portal(NSP), a  one  stop  solution  for  end  to  end  scholarship process, have been implemented. Over 1.21 crore applications have been submitted through NSP. There are 24 registered schemes from 8 Ministries/Departments. Rs. 1156 crore has been disbursed to 39.46 lakh students in the financial year of 2016-17.
-  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, 13 applications across various domains are operational.
-  Rapid Assesment System have been integrated with 638 e-Services of 171 departments in 22 States/UTs.
-  Jeevan Pramaan is  an  Aadhaar  enabled  biometric  Digital  Life  Certificate  for  pensioners.  Over  65  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. Four agencies namely eMudhra Ltd.,       C-DAC, (n)Code Solutions, NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Ltd have been empanelled to offer e-Sign Services. So far, over 87.11 lakh eSigns have been issued.
- (b):   The following agencies are empanelled as part of Digital Campaign:
1. Prachar Communications Ltd.   2.  R K Swamy BBDO    3.  Crayons Advertising  4.  Creativeland Asia
5.   Goldmine Advertising   6.  Dentsu Communications   7.  Contract Advertising  8.  MSL Group   9. Wizcraft
10.    Promodome    11.    Moving  Pixels      12.    Cheil  Advertising    13  Group  M    14.    Impact  Communications    15.    Jagran Solutions
- (c) and (d):  Yes, Sir. Several new initiatives have been taken up such as:
-  DigiGaon: a Pilot project of Digital Village(DigiGaon) has been initiated for a period of          3 years involving 6 months of implementation  period  &  2.5  years  of  operation  &  maintenance/service  delivery  phase  post  implementation.  This  project intends to provide a platform for availability of services namely tele-education, tele-medicine, LED Street Lighting & Wi-Fi Hotspot and skill development to the citizens at the Gram Panchayats across various States/UTs.
-  Unified  Mobile  Application  for  New-Age  Governance  (UMANG) has  been  developed  as  a  single  mobile  platform  to deliver  major  Government  services.  The  'Go  live'  is  targeted  with  60-70  services  with  Core  Platform  integrated  with Aadhaar, Digilocker, PayGov, Rapid Assessment System(RAS) etc.
-  Big Data Analytics Platform (PaaS - Platform as a Service) over the cloud where user department can plug into the central data analytics hub and utilise it for drawing all sorts of analysis.
-  Government e-Market (GeM ) is a portal launched to facilitate the government procurements with the focus on online market places and e-tendering. It has made procurement possible at minimum price with the maximum ease.
-  The Centre of Excellence for Internet of Things (IoT), a combined initiative of Ministry of Electronics & IT, ERNET India and NASSCOM has been set up to promote IoT ecosystem which is vibrant & innovative, thereby helping India to attain a leadership role in this field.

(e) and (f): MeitY , Government of India has initiated e-District Mission Mode Project MMP) to ensure delivery of e-Services to  citizens  in  their  locality  across  all  districts  across  all  36  states/UTs.  The  e-District  MMP  ensures  Business  Process  Reengineering  (BPR)  of  services,  providing  easy,  anywhere  and  anytime  access  to  Government  services  through  various channels such as Government Offices, Online Web Portal, Mobile and Common Services Centre (CSC).    10 categories (5 mandatory + 5 State/UT Specific) of identified high volume citizen centric public services at district and sub-district level have been taken up for implementation to be electronically delivered under this project. Roll-out of eDistrict services in 555 districts has been completed including all 33 districts of Gujarat. It is envisaged to cover all the districts in the Financial Year 2017-18.

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