Lok Sabha Question No. 827 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-12-20
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY, NISHIKANT  DUBEY, GOPAL CHINAYYA SHETTY, KAMLA DEVI PATLE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 827

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 20.12.2017

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 827.   SHRI RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY:

SHRI NISHIKANT DUBEY:

SHRI GOPAL SHETTY:

SHRIMATI KAMLA DEVI PAATLE:

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

- (a). the present status of Digital India Programme and the success achieved against the fixed target along  with  the  amount  of  funds  allocated  by  the  Government  to  various  States  including Chhattisgarh under this programme;
- (b). whether all villages and remote towns of the country have been covered by basic communication/internet services and if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c). the  details  of  the  companies  and  persons  registered that  had  been a  part  of the  Digital  India Campaign;
- (d). the details of the schemes formulated/works undertaken at district level under the Digital India Programme  and  the  State-wise  details  of  those  districts  including  Chhattisgarh  where  these schemes had been launched and implemented; and
- (e). the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  digitalize  all  districts  and  the  time  limit  fixed  for  this purpose?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI ALPHONS KANNANTHANAM)

(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 progamme is as follows:

## Pillar 1: Broadband Highways

-  Under  National  Optical  Fibre  Network  (NOFN)/BharatNet  project,  2.46  lakh  KMs  of  optical fibre pulled for 1,05,274 Gram Panchayats(GPs) and 81,535 GPs have been connected till   3 rd December, 2017.

## Pillar 2: Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity

-  Rural Tele-density is 56.71% (as on 30 th September, 2017).

## Pillar 3: Public Internet Access Programme

-  Common  Services  Centres are  taking  digital  services  to  every  corner  of  India.  2,69,608 Common Services Centres (CSCs) are active and transacting for delivery of eServices across the country; among which 1,70,657 CSCs are at Gram Panchayat level.
-  Pillar 4: E-Governance: Reforming government through Technology (as on 15 th December, 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 119+ crore residents have been enrolled.
-  Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT): 395 schemes of 56 Ministries/ Departments are there on DBT platform.  An amount of more than Rs. 2.64 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

-  3506 e-services are being provided through 44 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) under e-Kranti. More than 2732 crore e-transactions with an average of 248 crore transaction per month were done since 1 st January, 2017.

## Pillar 6: Information for All (as on 15 th December, 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, 50.07 lakh users are registered with MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform. MyGov activities are structured under 64 groups consisting of 698 tasks, 752 discussions, 242 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 15 th December, 2017, over 142,034 dataset resources  under  4,241  catalogs  contributed  by  108  Ministry/Departments  (83  Central  and  25 states). 1,271 Visualizations created, 3590-Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) created, 114 Chief Data Officers. OGD India has 14.25 million times viewed and 5.32 million datasets have been downloaded.

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

-  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.
-  18  Electronics  Manufacturing  Clusters  (16  Greenfield  EMCs  and  2  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 15 th December, 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 National Digital Literacy Mission/Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (NDLM/DISHA), 82.74 lakh have been trained. Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharata Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) has been launched in October, 2017.

## Pillar 9: Early Harvest Programme (as on 15 th December, 2017)

-  Over 90 lakh Digital Lockers have been opened. About 124.55 lakh documents have been selfuploaded and more than 195 crore documents have been issued.  36 Issuers and 15 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  130  hospitals  and more than 12 lakh appointments have been taken online.
-  More  than  5.03  lakh  contributors  now  registered  on  the  Digitize  India  platform.  More  than 12.52 lakh documents are digitized through Digitize India platform.
-  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  140  lakh students to submit application on a single portal for 32 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  866  e-Services  of  165  departments  in  26 States/UTs.
-  Jeevan Pramaan is an Aadhaar enabled biometric Digital Life Certificate for pensioners. More than  141.63  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 4.42+ crore eSigns have been issued.
- (b): The steps taken by the Government to connect villages and remote towns of the country by basic communication/internet services are as follows:
- (i). BharatNet :  Provisioning  of  internet  connectivity  at  rural  areas  is  under  the  purview  of Department  of  Telecommunications  (DoT),  under Ministry of  Communications. DoT  is implementing  National  Optical  Fibre  Network  (NOFN)  project,  renamed  as  BharatNet.  It  has been envisaged to provide 100 Mbps broadband connectivity to  all Gram Panchayats (approx. 2.50 lakhs) in the country by using an optimal mix of underground fibre, fibre over power lines, radio and satellite media. The project is planned to be implemented in three phases: Under first phase of the project, 1 lakh Gram Panchayats (GPs) are to be connected by laying underground Optical  Fibre  Cable(OFC)  which  is  under  implementation  and    expected  to  be  completed  by November 2017. Under Phase-II, connectivity will be provided to remaining 1.5 lakh GPs in the country using an optimal mix of underground fibre, fibre over power lines, radio and satellite media,  and  provision  of  last  mile  access  to  the  network  and  broadband  service  provisioning through Wi-Fi or any other broadband access technologies in all 2,50,000 GPs in the country, which is targeted to be completed by March, 2019. Under third phase, a state-of-the-art network with ring architecture, is planned to be completed by 2023.

Under the BharatNet project (phase-I Target of 1,24,990 GPs), 2.46 lakhs KMs of optical fibre pulled for 1,05,274 GPs and 81,535 GPs have been connected so far till 03.12.2017.

- (ii). National Information Infrastructure (NII): A pilot project on National Information Infrastructure (NII) for a period of one year of operation was initiated by MeitY in July, 2015 for one district each in the States of Nagaland, Karnataka, Kerala, Gujarat, Uttarakhand and UT of Chandigarh and Puducherry to integrate  various  ICT  infrastructure  namely  State  Data  Centres (SDCs),  State  Wide  Area  Network  (SWAN),  National  Knowledge  Network  (NKN),  National Informatics  Centre  Network  (NICNET),  State  Service  Delivery  Gateway  (SSDG)  including National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)/BharatNet created in these States. The objective is to provide connectivity to government offices upto Gram Panchayat (GP) level (1059 GPs).
- (iii). Common  Services  Centre  (CSC): Common  Services  Centres  are  internet  enabled  centres operated by local entrepreneur, called Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) and provide eServices to rural citizens. CSCs deliver various Government-to-Citizen (G2C), Business-to-Citizen (B2C) services,  Aadhaar  services,  financial  inclusion  services,  Educational  services  including  Digital

Literacy, Financial Literacy, Legal Literacy, Skill development services etc. to citizens. For this, the  Ministry  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology  (MeitY),  Government  of  India  has initiated a project namely 'Common Services Centre (CSC) 2.0' in August, 2015 under Digital India Programme for a period of four years, which envisages setting up of at least one CSC at Gram Panchayat (GP) to cover all the 2.5 lakh GPs across the country.

Till  October,  2017,  there  are  2,69,608  Common  Services  Centres  (CSCs)  across  the  country; among which, 1,70,657 CSCs are at Gram Panchayat (GP) level.

(c):  Various  companies  have  been  touched  either  directly  or  indirectly  through  Digital  India Campaign. Most of the industry associations namely NASSCOM, FICCI, IAMAI, ASSOCHAM etc have been reached out directly. Details of the some of the organizations and persons registered that had been a part of the Digital India Campaign are as follows:

|   S. N. | Companies / Entrepreneurs / Citizens                                                                                               | Registered                                                                                                                          |
|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd. (CSC- SPV)                                                                                    | Implementing agency- CSC 2.0, Digitize India Platform (DIP), NDLM/DISHA, PMGDISHA, Wi-Fi Choupal etc.                               |
|       2 | National e-Governance Division (NeGD)                                                                                              | Implementing agency- Rapid Assessment System (RAS)                                                                                  |
|       3 | National Informatics Centre Services Incorporation (NICSI)                                                                         | Implementing agency- Open Govt. Data (OGD), eTaal 2.0 etc.                                                                          |
|       4 | CSC Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) registered under Digital India (started in August, 2015 for 4 years) (Under implementation) | Registered 3.91 lakh (including 2.6 lakh at Gram Panchayat level) Functional 2.69 lakh (including 1.7 lakh at Gram Panchayat level) |
|       5 | Digitize India Platform (DIP)                                                                                                      | Digital Contributors registered: 5.03 lakh                                                                                          |
|       6 | National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM)/ Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) (started in December, 2014 for 2 years)                | Registered candidates: 82.74 lakh                                                                                                   |
|       7 | Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) (started in February, 2017 for 2 years)                                 | Registered candidates : 98.39 lakh                                                                                                  |
|       8 | Digital Finance Inclusion, Awareness& Access (DFIAA) initiative under Digital India Programme (November, 2016 to March, 2017)      | Citizen Registered: 204 lakh                                                                                                        |
|       9 | Digital Finance Inclusion, Awareness& Access (DFIAA) initiative under Digital India Programme (November, 2016 to March, 2017)      | Merchants Registered: 27 lakh                                                                                                       |
|      10 | Government e-Market Place (GeM)                                                                                                    | Buyer organizations: 18,892 Sellers: 49,094 Service providers: 11,017                                                               |

(d) and (e):  Government of India has implemented following schemes under Digital India programme at district level.

-  e-District is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) that aims at electronic delivery of identified high volume citizen  centric  services  at  the  district  or  sub-district  level.  The  objectives  of  the  eDistrict  project  are  to  ensure:  end-to-end  workflow  to  ensure  delivery  of  e-Services  by undertaking  Business  Process  Re-engineering  (BPR)  of  services,  providing  easy,  anywhere and anytime access to Government services.

e-District services have been launched in 649 districts (in 32 States/UTs) out of the total 678 districts. e-District services have been launched in all Districts of Chhattisgarh. State/ Districtwise launch status of e-District services is given in Annexure-I.

-  Common  Services  Centres  (CSCs): The  CSCs  are  Information  and  Communication Technology (ICT) enabled centres with broadband connectivity to provide various G2C, B2C and G2B services to all rural citizens of country such as Aadhaar services, Pan Card, Passport, Electricity Bill payment, IRCTC services and services related to Education, Employment and Banking etc.  Governments, private and social services at the doorstep of the citizen. As on date 2,69,608 CSCs have been made operational in 36 States/UTs. The State/UT-wise status of CSC is given in Annexure-II.
-  State Wide Area Network (SWAN): SWAN has been implemented 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. SWAN has been implemented in all the States/UTs except Jammu & Kashmir and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

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## Annexure-I

|   S. No. | State/UT Name            |   No. of District |   No. of District where Services Launched |   No. of Services Launched |
|----------|--------------------------|-------------------|-------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
|        1 | Andaman &Nicobar Islands |                 3 |                                         0 |                          0 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh           |                13 |                                        13 |                         50 |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh*       |                16 |                                        16 |                          6 |
|        4 | Assam                    |                33 |                                        32 |                         47 |
|        5 | Bihar*                   |                38 |                                        38 |                         31 |
|        6 | Chandigarh               |                 1 |                                         1 |                         13 |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh             |                27 |                                        27 |                         40 |
|        8 | D&N Haveli               |                 1 |                                         1 |                          1 |
|        9 | Daman &Diu               |                 2 |                                         0 |                          0 |
|       10 | Delhi                    |                11 |                                        11 |                         14 |
|       11 | Goa*                     |                 2 |                                         2 |                         11 |
|       12 | Gujarat                  |                33 |                                        33 |                         49 |

| S. No.   | State/UT Name    |   No. of District |   No. of District where Services Launched |   No. of Services Launched |
|----------|------------------|-------------------|-------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
| 13       | Haryana          |                21 |                                        21 |                        110 |
| 14       | Himachal Pradesh |                12 |                                        12 |                         31 |
| 15       | Jammu &Kashmir*  |                22 |                                         0 |                          0 |
| 16       | Jharkhand        |                24 |                                        24 |                         24 |
| 17       | Karnataka        |                30 |                                        30 |                         29 |
| 18       | Kerala           |                14 |                                        14 |                         39 |
| 19       | Lakshadweep      |                 1 |                                         0 |                          0 |
| 20       | Maharashtra      |                35 |                                        35 |                         52 |
| 21       | Manipur          |                 9 |                                         9 |                          3 |
| 22       | Meghalaya        |                11 |                                        11 |                          6 |
| 23       | Mizoram          |                 8 |                                         8 |                         15 |
| 24       | Madhya Pradesh   |                51 |                                        51 |                        101 |
| 25       | Nagaland         |                11 |                                        11 |                          7 |
| 26       | Odisha           |                30 |                                        30 |                          7 |
| 27       | Puducherry       |                 4 |                                         4 |                         72 |
| 28       | Punjab           |                22 |                                        22 |                         42 |
| 29       | Rajasthan        |                33 |                                        33 |                        105 |
| 30       | Sikkim           |                 4 |                                         4 |                          2 |
| 31       | Tamil Nadu       |                32 |                                        32 |                         27 |
| 32       | Telangana        |                10 |                                        10 |                         33 |
| 33       | Tripura          |                 8 |                                         8 |                         13 |
| 34       | Uttar Pradesh    |                75 |                                        75 |                         26 |
| 35       | Uttarakhand      |                13 |                                        13 |                         15 |
| 36       | West Bengal      |                18 |                                        18 |                         27 |
| Total    | Total            |               678 |                                       649 |                       1048 |

## Annexure-II

| STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON31 OCTOBER, 2017   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON31 OCTOBER, 2017   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON31 OCTOBER, 2017   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON31 OCTOBER, 2017   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON31 OCTOBER, 2017   |
|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| S. No.                                               | State                                                | No. of Gram Panchayat (GP)                           | Total No. of CSCs including GP                       | No. of CSCs at GP level                              |
| 1                                                    | Andhra Pradesh                                       | 10778                                                | 6376                                                 | 3905                                                 |
| 2                                                    | Arunachal Pradesh                                    | 1767                                                 | 71                                                   | 53                                                   |
| 3                                                    | Assam                                                | 2662                                                 | 2892                                                 | 2145                                                 |

| STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON31 OCTOBER, 2017   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON31 OCTOBER, 2017   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON31 OCTOBER, 2017   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON31 OCTOBER, 2017   | STATE/UT-WISE STATUS OF CSCs AS ON31 OCTOBER, 2017   |
|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| S. No.                                               | State                                                | No. of Gram Panchayat (GP)                           | Total No. of CSCs including GP                       | No. of CSCs at GP level                              |
| 4                                                    | Bihar                                                | 8284                                                 | 20976                                                | 13110                                                |
| 5                                                    | Chhattisgarh                                         | 10995                                                | 11856                                                | 8555                                                 |
| 6                                                    | Goa                                                  | 191                                                  | 45                                                   | 33                                                   |
| 7                                                    | Gujarat                                              | 13620                                                | 13531                                                | 7576                                                 |
| 8                                                    | Haryana                                              | 6207                                                 | 8644                                                 | 5489                                                 |
| 9                                                    | Himachal Pradesh                                     | 3226                                                 | 2731                                                 | 2156                                                 |
| 10                                                   | Jammu &Kashmir                                       | 4202                                                 | 1897                                                 | 1277                                                 |
| 11                                                   | Jharkhand                                            | 4358                                                 | 10532                                                | 6067                                                 |
| 12                                                   | Karnataka                                            | 6028                                                 | 5851                                                 | 2772                                                 |
| 13                                                   | Kerala                                               | 979                                                  | 2308                                                 | 1238                                                 |
| 14                                                   | Madhya Pradesh                                       | 22825                                                | 19268                                                | 14199                                                |
| 15                                                   | Maharashtra                                          | 28053                                                | 29977                                                | 20684                                                |
| 16                                                   | Manipur                                              | 163                                                  | 628                                                  | 317                                                  |
| 17                                                   | Meghalaya                                            | 1463                                                 | 201                                                  | 80                                                   |
| 18                                                   | Mizoram                                              | 776                                                  | 118                                                  | 110                                                  |
| 19                                                   | Nagaland                                             | 1123                                                 | 146                                                  | 130                                                  |
| 20                                                   | Odisha                                               | 6801                                                 | 7771                                                 | 6319                                                 |
| 21                                                   | Punjab                                               | 13016                                                | 6125                                                 | 3996                                                 |
| 22                                                   | Rajasthan                                            | 9891                                                 | 13382                                                | 9156                                                 |
| 23                                                   | Sikkim                                               | 176                                                  | 35                                                   | 25                                                   |
| 24                                                   | Tamil Nadu                                           | 11649                                                | 8751                                                 | 5019                                                 |
| 25                                                   | Telangana                                            | 8695                                                 | 5509                                                 | 3165                                                 |
| 26                                                   | Tripura                                              | 1038                                                 | 427                                                  | 361                                                  |
| 27                                                   | Uttar Pradesh                                        | 59019                                                | 65371                                                | 41254                                                |
| 28                                                   | Uttarakhand                                          | 7958                                                 | 4720                                                 | 4233                                                 |
| 29                                                   | West Bengal                                          | 3342                                                 | 17063                                                | 7101                                                 |
|                                                      | State Total                                          | 249285                                               | 267202                                               | 170525                                               |
|                                                      | Union Territory                                      |                                                      |                                                      |                                                      |
| 1                                                    | Andaman &Nicobar                                     | 70                                                   | 52                                                   | 22                                                   |
| 2                                                    | Chandigarh                                           | 24                                                   | 77                                                   | 23                                                   |
| 3                                                    | Dadra &Nagar Haveli                                  | 10                                                   | 25                                                   | 10                                                   |
| 4                                                    | Daman and Diu                                        | 15                                                   | 12                                                   | 1                                                    |
| 5                                                    | Delhi                                                | 0                                                    | 2111                                                 | 0                                                    |
| 6                                                    | Lakshadweep                                          | 10                                                   | 3                                                    | 2                                                    |
| 7                                                    | Puducherry                                           | 98                                                   | 126                                                  | 74                                                   |
|                                                      | UT Total                                             | 227                                                  | 2406                                                 | 132                                                  |
|                                                      | GRAND TOTAL                                          | 249512                                               | 269608                                               | 170657                                               |

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