Lok Sabha Question No. 4187 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-21
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: CHINTAMANI MALVIYA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4187

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 21.03.2018

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 4187.    PROF. CHINTAMANI MALVIYA:

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

- (a) the  current  status  of  Digital  India  Programme,  the  target  fixed  under  the  same  and  the  status  of Madhya Pradesh with regard to the said programme so far;
- (b) the details of the share of registered companies under the said Digital India campaign;
- (c) whether the Government has identified new sectors for which urgent digital initiative is required and whether the Digital India Programme has been introduced by the Government at the district level;
- (d) if so, the details thereof and the new initiatives taken by the Government in this regard; and
- (e) the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  make  all  districts  digitally  connected  and  the  time  frame earmarked for the same?

## 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 Digital India programme is as follows:

## Pillar 1: Broadband Highways

-  Under National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)/BharatNet project, 2.67 lakh KMs of optical fibre pulled for 1,13,467 GPs and 1,04,548 GPs have been connected so far till 11.03.2018. In Madhya Pradesh, as on 11.03.2018, by laying a total length of 37583 km Optical Fibre Cable (OFC), 12,231 GPs have been connected, out of which 11,102 GPs have been made Service Ready.

## 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.  In  the  State  of  Madhya  Pradesh,  there  are  20,835  Common Services Centres (CSCs) functioning across the State, of which, 14,976 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. In the State of Madhya Pradesh, over 7.49 crore residents have been enrolled.

-  Direct  Benefit  Transfer(DBT): 432  schemes  of  56  Ministries/  Departments  are  there  on  DBT platform.  An amount of more than Rs. 3.44 Lakh Crore has been transferred through DBT. In the State of Madhya Pradesh, 59 schemes of 11 Ministries/ Departments are on-boarded on DBT platform.
-  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  eOffice 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. In the State of Madhya Pradesh, 145 e-Services have been integrated with eTaal platform and more than 4.36 crore digital transactions since         1 st January, 2018.

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

-  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 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. In the State of Madhya Pradesh, 3200 seats have been approved out of which 900 seats have been allocated.
-  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 1.18 crore candidates have been registered out of which more than 55.50 lakh candidates have been duly certified. In the state of Madhya Pradesh, under PMGDISHA Scheme 7,48,491 persons have been registered under the scheme out of which 3,51,875 have been duly certified.
-  Information  Security  Education  and  Awareness  (ISEA)  Project  Phase-II: The  Information Security  Education  and  Awareness  (ISEA)  Project  Phase-II  was  approved  with  an  objective  of  capacity building  in  the  area  of  Information  Security,  training  of  Government  personnel  and  creation  of  mass Information Security awareness. So  far, 28,069  candidates  have  been  trained  in  various  formal / non formal  courses  and 4,457

Government officials have been trained in various short term courses in the area of Information Security. In the State of Madhya Pradesh, so far 1,177 candidates have been trained and 96 Government officials have been  trained.  Besides  this,  10  half  day  general  awareness  workshops  on  Information  Security  have  been organized for various user groups covering 2,629 participants.

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) : It has been made operational in 142 hospitals and more than 13 lakh appointments have been taken online. In the State of Madhya Pradesh, e-Hospital has been implemented in 10 hospitals.
-  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,               25 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 eSign Services. Over 4.70+ crore eSigns have been issued.
- (b): 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 and States/UTs have their own agreement with registered companies/agencies.
- (c) and (d): The Government has identified several new areas and the details of some of the new initiatives undertaken are as follows:
-  Unified  Mobile  App  for  New-age  Governance  (UMANG): UMANG  is  an  initiative  to  build  a common, unified platform and mobile app to facilitate single point of access for government services through mobile. Through the application, citizens can access high impact pan India e-Gov services from  the  central  Government,  State  Governments,  local  bodies  and  their  agencies  and,  even  those from  private  sector.  At  present,  196  services  from  38  departments  and  4  States  are  available  on UMANG.
-  Government e-Marketplace (GeM): To facilitate on line procurement of Goods & Services required by  various  Government  Departments  /  Organizations  /  PSUs.  GeM  will  enhance  transparency,
- efficiency and speed in public procurement. It will also provide the tools of e-bidding and reverse eauction as well as demand aggregation to facilitate efficient procurement. Presently, GeM is being used by 16,471 Organisations of Central Govt and States/UTs. 46,804 Sellers and Services providers are registered on the portal.
-  National Centre of Geo-informatics (NCoG): It  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, 25 applications across various domains are operational.
-  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.
-  Digital Locker: Digital Locker System serves as a platform to enable citizens to securely store and share their documents with service providers who can directly access them electronically. 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.
-  e-Hospital/Online Registration System (ORS): It  includes  online  appointment and registration by new patients, viewing of lab reports, checking the status of blood availability and integration  with payment gateway (PayGov).  Online Registration System (ORS) has been made operational in 142 hospitals and more than 13 lakh appointments have been taken online.
-  Rapid Assessment System (RAS): RAS is  a  continuous  feedback  system  for  e-services  delivered through  various  Digital  India  platforms  and  various  e-Gov  applications.  Rapid  Assessment  System has been integrated with 947 e-Services of 178 departments in 28 States/UTs.
-  Digital  Literacy: The  Government  has  initiated  a  scheme  titled  'Pradhan  Mantri  Gramin  Digital Saksharta Abhiyan' (PMGDISHA) for ushering in digital literacy in rural India by covering 6 Crore rural households.
- (e):  MeitY is implementing following scheme to make all districts digitally connected.
-  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/UTs
-  e-District: 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 Ministry of Electronics & Information  Technology  (MeitY),  Government  of  India  (GoI)  is  the  nodal  Ministry  for  e-District MMP.  This  MMP  is  being  implemented  by  State  Governments/UT  Administrations  through  their designated  agencies.  Presently,  e-District  services  have  been  launched  in  649  districts  across  32 States/UTs.
-  National  Informatics  Centre  (NIC),  Ministry  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology  has  its District Centres at the District level and all the districts are digitally connected. NIC district centres provide IT support to the district Administration.

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