Lok Sabha Question No. 3842 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-08-09
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: NALIN KUMAR KATEEL, DODDAALAHALLI KEMPEGOWDA SURESH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3842

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 09.08.2017

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 3842.   SHRI NALIN KUMAR KATEEL:     SHRI D.K. SURESH:

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

- (a). whether  the  Government  has  implemented  Digital  India  Programme  to  transform  India  into  digital  empowered  society  and  knowledge economy;
- (b). if so, the status of implementation of the digital India programme in all the Government departments;
- (c). whether the Government has taken adequate necessary measures to sensitize all Ministries to this vast programme touching every corner of the Government and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d). the  steps  taken/proposed  to  be  taken  to  ensure  that  all  the  Ministries  and  Government  offices  are  brought  under  digitization  and  all  the information is uploaded with immediate effect to help citizens access information and knowledge?

## ANSWER

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

(a) and (b): Yes, Madam.  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-KrantiElectronic 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 undertaken by MeitY under Digital India progamme is as follows:

## Pillar 1: Broadband Highways

-  Under National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)/BharatNet project, 2.22 lakhs KMs of optical fibre pulled for 1,00,322 GPs and 26,548 GPs have been connected till 30 th July, 2017.

## Pillar 2: Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity

-  Rural Tele-density is 56.98% (as on 30 th April, 2017).

Pillar 3: Public Internet Access Programme (as on 30 th June, 2017)

-  3,00,774 Common Services Centres (CSCs) have been registered across the country, out of which, 1,96,922 are at Gram Panchayats(GP) level. Out of the total registered Common Services Centre, 2,61,071 CSCs are active and transacting for delivery of eServices; out of which, 1,63,226 are at GP level.

## Pillar 4: E-Governance: Reforming government through Technology (as on 31 st July, 2017)

-  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 116 crore residents have been enrolled.
-  Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT): As on 31 March 2017, 140  schemes of 51 Ministries/ Departments are there on DBT platform.  Till date an  amount of more than Rs. 2.14 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.
-  Number of user Departments for e-Office is 263.

## Pillar 5: eKranti- Electronic delivery of services

-  3438 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  2016-17.

Pillar 6: Information for All (as on 31 st July, 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, 45.28 lakh users are registered with MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform. MyGov activities are structured under 61 groups consisting of 660 tasks, 728 discussions, 238 Polls/Surveys and 148 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. Over 1,06,372 resources under 4189 catalogs have been published by 105 Ministries/Departments (81 Central and 24 states).
-  233 Investment proposals under Modified Specific Incentive Programmes (MSIPs) having a proposed investment of Rs. 1.44 lakh crores have been received so far.  97 proposals with proposed investments of Rs. 20,809 crores 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 total targeted corpus of Rs. 10,900 Cr.

Pillar 7: Electronics Manufacturing - Target NET ZERO Imports (as on 30 th June, 2017)

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

-  48,300 seats have been approved under India BPO scheme and over 18,160 seats have been allocated.
-  5000 seats have been approved for BPOs in North East and 1,610 seats have been allocated.
-  Under Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) Scheme, around 53.46 lakh candidates have been certified.

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

-  Over 77 lakh Digital Lockers have been opened. About 95.87 lakh documents have been self-uploaded and more than 187 crore documents have been issued.   31  Issuers  and  9  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 121 hospitals and more than 65 lakh appointments have been taken online.
-  More than 3.54 lakh contributors are  now registered on the Digitize India platform. More than   9.99 lakh documents are digitized through Digitize India Platform (DIP).  Currently more than 241.7 lakh snippets  are digitised.
-  Public Wi-Fi hotspots: Wi-Fi services have been provided at 86 tourist sites across the country.
-  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 20 registered schemes from 8 Ministries/Departments.
-  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,    20 applications across various domains are operational.
-  Rapid Assessment System has been integrated with 893 e-Services of 202 departments in 25 States/UTs.
-  Jeevan Pramaan is  an  Aadhaar enabled biometric Digital Life Certificate for pensioners. More than 84 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 (i) eMudhra Ltd., (ii) C-DAC, (iii) (n)Code Solutions and (iv) NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Ltd have been empanelled to offer e-Sign Services. More than 1.79 crore eSign have been issued.

(c): Government of India has undertaken various measures to sensitize all Ministries/Departments to digitally transform the nation and create opportunities for all citizens by harnessing digital technologies and services. Some of the major workshop/conference/trainings are as bellow:

-  Capacity Building Scheme under Digital India programme   in all the Central Ministries/Departments and States/UTs. The scheme addressed the critical  'Human  Resource Development' and 'Training' components of e-Governance to provide technical & professional support  to  Centre  &  State  level  policy  &  decision-making  bodies  and  to  build  the  in-house  capacity  for  implementation  of  various  eGovernance initiatives.
- o One-half day Orientation programmes: 11 programmes conducted and around 722 Government  officials have been trained about Digital India and some of the important frameworks, guidelines and common service infrastructure initiatives.
- o Orientation  &  Consultation  on  Emerging  Themes  (Thematic  Workshops)  Consultations: 16  workshops  conducted  where  3294 Government officials   attended.
- o Role-Specific in-Depth Trainings : 30 training programmes conducted and covered 687 Government officials.
- o 11168 participants have been  introduced to e-Governance and Digital India content through bouquets of training programmes during the last  2  years.  Around  38,000  Government    officers participated  in  short  duration  webinars  through  Learning  Management  System(LMS), MyGov and You Tube.
-  Digital India week: The Digital India Week was launched by the Hon'ble Prime Minister on 1 st July, 2015 aimed at encouraging people's involvement and creating awareness among them.
-  Good Governance Week: A week-long celebration of Good Governance Week was organized by MeitY starting from 25 th December 2015 at New Delhi. This event involved active participation from MeitY, Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and Department of Posts (DoP) and their agencies.
-  International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV-2017): The tenth edition was organized in New Delhi,  India  during  7-9 th March,  2017  in  view  of  the  strong  resonance  between  the  objectives  of  the  ICEGOV  series  and  Digital  India programme of Government of India.
-  e-Kranti:  Electronic  Delivery  of  Services has  been  approved  by  the  Union  Cabinet  on  25.03.2015.  Mission  Mode  Projects  (MMPs) portfolio has increased from 31 to 44 MMPs. An Office Memorandum has been issued and all Central Ministries / Departments and States /UTs have been communicated about the e-Kranti and its importance.
-  Under Open Govt. Data (OGD) project, Capacity Building/training/ presentations/ demonstrations have been provided to the Ministries/ Departments on process and procedure of releasing datasets in an open format.
-  Under Rapid  Assessment  System  (RAS) project,  presentations/demonstrations  have  been  given  to  various  Ministries/Departments  on process of integrating e-Governance services with RAS platform for obtaining feedback from the citizens availing the services.

(d): Some of the key steps taken by MeitY to ensure that all the Ministries and Government offices are brought under digitization and the information is uploaded with immediate effect to help citizen access information and knowledge are as follows:

-  e-Kranti: e-Kranti- Electronic Delivery of Services is one of the piller of Digital India programme. Total of 44 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) are being implemented. There are 13 Central, 17 State and 14 Integrated MMPs. These MMPs are providing e-Governance services
- in the areas such as education, healthcare, agriculture, justice, land records, social benefits, local governments, rural development, women & child development, legislature, local language, transport, financial services, etc. Currently, more than 141 crore electronic transactions per month are taking place at both national and state level e-governance projects including MMPs since January, 2017.
-  e-Office: It is digital workplace solution which aims to usher in efficient, effective and transparent inter-government and intra-government transactions and processes. e-Office has been implemented in more than 263 Government departments/organizations.
-  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, 45.28 lakh users are registered with MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform. MyGov activities are structured under 61 groups consisting of 660 tasks, 728 discussions, 238 Polls/Surveys and 148 talks.
-  Open Govt. Data  (OGD): Open  Govt.  Data  aimed  to  develop  a  platform  intended  to  be  used  by  Union  Ministries/Departments,  their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use.  All the Central Government Ministries/Departments  have  accepted  the  policy.  As  on  31 st July,  2017,  OGD  India  has  102,034+  dataset  resources,  4,179  catalogs contributed  by  105  Ministry/Departments,  1,102  Visualizations  created,  1234-Application  Programming  Interfaces  (APIs)  created,  110 Chief Data Officers appointed. OGD India has been viewed 11.78 million times   and 4.72 million datasets have been downloaded.
-  Digitize India Platform (DIP): DIP aimed to develop a platform intended to provide digitization services for scanned document images or physical  documents  for  any  Govt.  organization  through  crowd  sourcing.  As  on  31 st July,  2017,  more  than  3.54  lakhs  contributors  have registered on the platform and more than 9.99 lakhs documents have been digitized.  Currently more than 241.7 lakhs snippets are digitized.

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