Lok Sabha Question No. 2631 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-01-03
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: NALIN KUMAR KATEEL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2631

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 03.01.2018

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 2631.   SHRI NALIN KUMAR KATEEL:

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

- (a) whether it is true that 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 in all the Government departments;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  taken  adequate  necessary  measures  to  sensitize  all  ministries regarding this vast programme touching every corner of the Government;
- (d) if so; the details thereof; and
- (e) if not; the steps proposed to be taken to ensure that all ministries and government offices are brought under digitization and all the information are uploaded with immediate effect to help citizens  access information and knowledge ?

## ANSWER

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

(a) : Yes, Sir.

- (b):  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,  2.52  lakh  KMs  of  optical fibre pulled for 1,08,237 Gram Panchayats(GPs) and 96,039 GPs have been connected till   24 th 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.  2,71,311 Common Services Centres (CSCs) are active and transacting for delivery of eServices across the country; among which 1,73,853 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): 307 schemes of 56 Ministries/ Departments are there on DBT platform.  An amount of more than Rs. 2.68 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 3019 crore e-transactions with an average of 251 crore transaction per month were done during 2017.

## Pillar 6: Information for All (as on 29 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, 50.53 lakh users are registered with MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform. MyGov activities are structured under 64 groups consisting of 702 tasks, 757 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 29 th December, 2017, over 151,126 dataset resources  under  4,249  catalogs  contributed  by  109  Ministry/Departments  (84  Central  and  25 states). 1,286 Visualizations created, 3592-Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) created, 114 Chief Data Officers. OGD India has 14.45 million times viewed and 5.37 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 29 th December, 2017)

-  Over  92  lakh  Digital  Lockers  have  been  opened.  About  134  lakh  documents  have  been  selfuploaded and more than 197.54 crore documents have been issued.  37 Issuers and 17 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  131  hospitals  and more than 12.49 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,    21 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.
- (c):  Yes, Sir.
- (d): Government of India has undertaken various measures to sensitize all Ministries/Departments  to  digitally  transform  our  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 forward across the country 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 e-Governance initiatives.
- o One-half  day  Orientation  programmes: 11  programmes  conducted  and  around  722 govt. 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 govt officials have attended.
- o Role-Specific in-Depth Trainings: 30  training  programmes conducted and covered 687 govt. officials.
- o 11168  participants  are  introduced  to  e-Governance  and  Digital  India  content  through bouquets  of  training  programmes  during  the  last  2  years.  Around  38000  Govt  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 1st July, 2015 aims 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 25th 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 (ICEGOV2017): The tenth edition was organized in New Delhi, India during 7-9th March, 2017 in view of  the  strong  resonance  between  the  objectives  of  the  ICEGOV  series  and  Digital  India programme of Government of India.
-  Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS) - 2017: The 5 th edition was organized in New Delhi, India during 23-24 th November, 2017. The objectives of GCCS 2017 are to promote the importance of inclusiveness and human rights in global cyber policy, to defend the status quo of  an  open,  interoperable  and  unregimented  cyberspace,  to  create  political  commitment  for capacity building initiatives to address the digital divide and assist countries, and to develop security solutions in a balanced fashion that duly acknowledge the importance of the private sector and technical community.
-  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 to them.
-  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 delivered to various Ministries/Departments on process of integrating e-Governance services with RAS platform for obtaining feedback from the citizens availing the services.

(e):  Does not arise.

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