Lok Sabha Question No. 2434 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-11-30
Subject: E-Governance
Ministry: PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
Asked by: KONDA VISHWESHWAR REDDY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS (DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS AND PUBLIC GRIEVANCES)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2434

(TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.11.2016)

## E-GOVERNANCE

## 2434. SHRI KONDA VISHWESHWAR REDDY:

Will the PRIME MINISTER be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of e-governance initiatives taken by the Government in the last two years; and
- (b) the total amount spent on the above initiatives so far?

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office. (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

- (a): The  Government  of  India  is  implementing  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 Government Ministries and Departments and is being coordinated by MeitY. Various e-Governance initiatives are being taken in last two years by Government are as follows:
- Under the National e-Governance Action Plan (NeGP) which is now subsumed under Digital  India,  core  infrastructure  components  such  as  State  Data  Centres  (SDCs), State  Wide  Area  Networks  (SWANs),  Common  Services  Centres  (CSCs),  State  eGovernance Service Delivery Gateway (SSDGs), e-District and Capacity Building are being implemented.
- The  pillar  5:  e-Kranti  Electronic  delivery  of  services  envisages  provisioning  of various  e-Governance  services  in  the  country.  The  focus  of  the  e-Kranti  is  to transform  the  e-Governance  services  by  expanding  the  portfolio  of  Mission  Mode Projects (MMPs) in e-Governance under various Government Departments, undertaking  Government  Process  Reengineering  (GPR),  work  flow  automation, introducing  latest  technologies  such  as  Cloud  and  mobile  platform  and  focus  on integration of services.

Various other projects/schemes are being implemented under Digital India are as follows:

- MyGov aims to establish a link between Government and Citizens towards meeting the goal  of  good  governance.  MyGov  encourages  citizens  as  well  as  people  abroad  to participate in various activities i.e. 'Do', 'Discuss', 'Poll', 'Talk', 'Blog', etc.
- Digital Locker System :  It  serves  as  a  platform  to  enable  citizens to securely store and share their documents with service providers who can directly access them electronically.

- e-Hospital -Online Registration  Framework (ORF) is an initiative to facilitate the patients to take online OPD appointments with government hospitals. This framework also covers patient care, laboratory services and medical record management.
- National Scholarships Portal(NSP): provides a centralized platform for application and disbursement  of  scholarship  to  students  under  any  scholarship  scheme.  Over  1  crore applications have been submitted.
- Common Services Centres 2.0 (CSC 2.0): The Government of India is  implementing CSCs  scheme to  develop  and  provide  support to  the  use  of  information  technology  in rural  areas  of  the  country.  The  CSCs  are  Information  and  Communication  Technology (ICT)  enabled  kiosks  with  broadband  connectivity  to  provide  various  Governments, private and social services at the doorstep of the citizen.
- Mobile Seva: to provide government services to the people also through mobile phones and tablets.
- Jeevan  Pramaan: It is an Aadhaar based Biometric Authentication  System for Pensioners. The Hon'ble Prime Minister inaugurated the Jeevan Pramaan in November, 2014. The system provides authenticity to Digital Life Certificate without the necessity of the  pensioner  being  present  in  person  before  his/  her  Pension  Dispensing  Authority (PDA).
- National Centre of Geo-informatics (NCoG): Under this project, Geographic Information  System  (GIS)  platform  for  sharing,  collaboration,  location  based  analytics and decision support system for Departments has been developed.

(b): The total  funds  utilised  by  e-Governance,  MeitY  on  above e-Governance  initiatives are as below:

| Financial Year   |   Funds Utilised (Rs. in crore) |
|------------------|---------------------------------|
| 2014-15          |                         1064.87 |
| 2015-16          |                          483.9  |

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