Lok Sabha Question No. 671 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-06-26
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Andimuthu Raja

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  671

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 26.06.2019

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 671.    SHRI A. RAJA:

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

- (a) the features of the Digital India Programme;
- (b) the number of States initially covered under this programme across the country;
- (c) the details of the funds sanctioned, allocated and utilized so far under this programme across the country, State/UTwise including Tamil Nadu;
- (d) the details of the target set and achievements made under this programme so far; and
- (e) whether this programme is facing hurdles on multiple fronts especially in remote rural areas  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  the  reasons  therefor  along  with  the  action taken/being taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

- (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.  The  Digital  India  programme  is  centred  on three  key  vision  areas  namely  Digital  Infrastructure  as  a  Core  Utility  to  Every  Citizen, Governance and Services on Demand and Digital Empowerment of Citizens. 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.
- (b):   All States/UTs have already been covered under Digital India programme.
- (c): Digital India is an umbrella programme that covers multiple projects of various Central Ministries/Departments & States/UTs. Each project has its own budgetary requirement and accordingly project-plan has been charted out by the implementing Ministry/Departments and budget  details  are  being  maintained  by  concerned  Ministries/Departments  &  States/UTs. However,  budget allocated and utilised by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under Digital India programme is as follows:

| Financial Year   |   Budget allocated (Rs. in Crore) |   Actual Expenditure (Rs. in Crore) |
|------------------|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
| 2015-16          |                           1550.8  |                             1452.7  |
| 2016-17          |                           1244.93 |                             1217.65 |

| 2017-18   |   1413.63 |   1407.19 |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 2018-19   |   3339.73 |   3328.57 |

(d):    The  present  status  of  some  of  the  key  initiatives  undertaken  under  Digital  India programme is as follows:

-  BharatNet: BharatNet  is  an  ambitious  initiative  to  trigger  a  broadband  revolution  in rural  areas.  This  project  is  being  implemented  by  Department  of  Telecommunications. BharatNet aims to connect all the 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats in the country and provide 100  Mbps  connectivity  to  all  gram  panchayats  (GPs).  3,37,515  Kms  optical  fiber  has been laid connecting 1,28,870 Gram Panchayats. 1,19,513 Gram Panchayats are ready for service.
-  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 on 26 th March 2016. Over 123+ crore residents have been enrolled.
-  Common Services Centre (CSC): The Common Services Centres, which are kiosks for delivery of G2C Services, are being opened at each of 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats(GP). So far, 3.65 Lakh Common Services Centre are functional and are providing eServices; Out of this,  2.64  lakh  are  at  GP  level.  Along  with  other  services,  CSCs  are  providing services related to Banking and Finance to rural citizens. Over 300 digital services are being offered by these CSCs.
-  Meghraj and CSP: As part of the Digital India program, Government of India embarked upon an ambitious initiative known as MeghRaj, to utilize and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing. To fast track the adoption of cloud computing MeitY, Government of India  has  empanelled cloud service offerings of the 13 Cloud Service Providers under different deployment models viz. Public Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud and Government Community Cloud.
-  Digital locker: Digital Locker provides an ecosystem with collection of repositories and gateways  for  issuers  to  upload  the  documents  in  the  digital  repositories.  So  far,  2.37 crore  registered  user  of  DigiLocker.  352  crore  authentic  documents  have  been  issued. 126 Issuers and 36 Requestor organizations have been on-boarded.
-  Open Govt. Data Platform: Open Government Data (OGD) Platform is a platform for supporting Open  Data  initiative of Government  of  India. It intends to increase transparency  in  the  functioning  of  Government  and  also  open  avenues  for  many  more innovative usages of Government Data to give different perspective. Currently, 294,464 resources under 4,767 catalogs published by 148 Ministries/Departments (85 Central and 63 States/UTs Departments).
-  eTaal: eTaal  is  a  web  portal  for  dissemination  of  e-Transactions  statistics  of  National and  State  level  e-Governance  Projects  including  Mission  Mode  Projects.  It  receives transaction  statistics  from  web  based  applications  periodically  on  near  real  time  basis. More than 1454 crore transactions have been recorded for 3,702 services since January 2019.
-  Government e-Market  Place  (GeM): To  facilitate  on  line  procurement  of  Goods  & Services required by various  Government  Departments / Organizations / PSUs, Government                 e-Marketplace (GeM) has been implemented. GeM will enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. Presently, GeM is being used by various Departments/Ministries of Central Govt and States/UTs. 2,42,388 Sellers and Services  providers  are  registered  on  the  portal.  Also  others  Services  are  registered namely Transport, Scanning/Digitization, IT Manpower, FMS etc. There are 10,25,319 Products and 11,279+ Services are available on the portal.
-  e-District  Mission  Mode  Project  (MMP) has  been  implemented  at  district  and  subdistrict levels of all States/UTs, benefitting all citizens by delivering various e-Services such as Certificates (Birth, Caste, Death, Income and Local Resident), Pension (Old Age, Disability  and  Widow),  Grievance  Redressal,  Electoral,  Consumer  Court,  Revenue Court,  Land  Record  and  services  of  various  departments  such  as  Commercial  Tax, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Co-operative, Labour, Employment Training & Skill Development etc. e-District services have been launched in 721 districts across all States / UTs.
-  Jeevan  Pramaan: Digital  Life  Certificate  for  Pensioners  scheme  known  as  Jeevan Pramaan envisages to digitize the whole process of securing the life certificate.  It is  a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners.  With this initiative, the pensioner is no more required to physically present himself or herself in front of disbursing agency or the certification  authority.    Over  2.58  crore  Digital  Life  certificates  have  been  processed since 2014.
-  Online Registration System(ORS)/eHospital: Online Registration System (ORS) under eHospital includes online appointment and registration by new patients, viewing of lab reports, checking the status of blood availability and integration with payment gateway (PayGov).  Till date, 25.53 lakh online appointments have been made in 205 Hospitals through ORS.
-  National Scholarship Portal: 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. Over 1.40 crore applications have been submitted. There are 60 registered schemes from 14 Ministries/Departments.
-  NCOG- GIS Applications: National  Centre  of  Geo-informatics  (NCoG)  project,  is  a GIS platform developed for sharing, collaboration, location based analytics and decision support  system  for  Departments.  So  far,  230  applications  across  various  domains  are operational.
-  Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance (UMANG): UMANG has been developed as a single mobile platform to deliver major Government services with Core Platform  integrated  with  Aadhaar,  DigiLocker,  PayGov,  Rapid  Assessment  System (RAS) etc. About 362 services from 73 departments and 18 States are already available on UMANG and the count is increasing day by day.
-  MyGov: MyGov  is  a  first-of-its-kind  citizen  engagement  platform  for  participatory governance  in  India. MyGov  aims  to  facilitate  a  dialogue  between  citizens  and Government, bringing citizens closer to the Government and bringing the Government closer  to  the  citizens  it  serves,  via  this  platform.  Presently,  over  80  lakh  users  are registered  with  MyGov,  participating  in  various  activities  hosted  on  MyGov  platform. MyGov  activities are structured under 64 groups consisting of 813 tasks, 800 discussions, 263 Polls/Surveys and 184 talks.
-  National  Digital  Literacy  Mission  (NDLM)/Digital  Saksharta  Abhiyan  (DISHA): Government of India has implemented two Schemes for digital literacy namely 'National Digital Literacy Mission' (NDLM) with a target of training 10 lakh persons and Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) with a target of 42.5 lakh persons covering one person per family. These schemes were implemented concurrently across the country and a total of 53.67 lakh candidates have been trained and certified.
-  Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan(PMGDISHA): The Government  has  approved  a  new  scheme  titled  'Pradhan  Mantri  Gramin  Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA)' in February, 2017 to usher in digital literacy in rural India by covering 6 Crore rural households (one person per household). As on 20 th June, 2019, a total of 2.11 crore candidates have been trained under PMGDISHA scheme, out of which more than 1.33 crore candidates have been certified.

##  IT for Jobs

-  48,300 seats have been approved under India BPO scheme and over 45,480 BPO/ITeS seats operations distributed around 110 locations covering 20 States and 2 UTs.
-  5000 seats  have  been  approved  for  BPOs  in  North  East  and  2,485  seats  have  been allocated across 6 States of NER.

##  Electronics Manufacturing

-  Modified  Special  Incentive  Package  (M-SIPS):  201  applications  with  proposed investment  of  approximately  Rs.  52,083  crore  have  been  approved;  20  applications with proposed investments of approximately Rs. 5,048 crore have been recommended by the Appraisal Committee for approval.
-  Electronic Manufacturing Clusters (EMC): 23 applications (20 Greenfield EMCs and 3 Common Facility Centre in Brownfield EMCs) with project worth of Rs.3898 crore including Central Grant-in-aid of Rs.1577  crore  for setting up  of Electronics Manufacturing Clusters(EMC) have been accorded final approval in 15 states across the country.

(e): The primary challenges faced for implementation of Digital India programme are digital literacy and digital connectivity. Government has already taken necessary measures to tackle these challenges through implementing 'Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA)' to usher in  digital  literacy  in  rural  India  with  the  objective  of  covering  6 crore  rural  households  and  BharatNet  project  with  the  aim  to  connect  all  2,50,000  Gram Panchayats (GPs) in the country with 100 Mbps connectivity.

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