Lok Sabha Question No. 489 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-11-20
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.489

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 20.11.2019

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 489.     SHRI PARBHUBHAI NAGARBHAI VASAVA:

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

- (a) the salient features of Digital India Programme;
- (b) the details of the expenditure incurred thereon so far, State/UT-wise including Gujarat;
- (c) the details of the targets fixed and achievements made thereunder, State/UT-wise including Gujarat;
- (d) the details of BPOs set up by the Government under the aegis of  Digital India Programme across the country, State/UT-wise including Gujarat and the achievements made by them; and
- (e) whether the Government is contemplating setting up of BPOs in some more States, if so, the details thereof and the time by which it is likely to be done?

## 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-Kranti- Electronic delivery of services, (vi) Information for All, (vii) Electronics Manufacturing Target NET ZERO Imports, (viii) IT for Jobs and (ix) Early Harvest Programmes.
- (b): 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:
- (c):  Digital India is an umbrella programme that covers multiple projects of various Central Ministries/Departments & States/UTs. All States/UTs have already been covered under Digital India programme including state of Gujarat. 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). So far, 3,80,988 Kms optical  fiber  has  been  laid  connecting  1,40,668  Gram  Panchayats.  1,28,376  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 124+ 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, 3.63 Lakh Common Services Centre are functional and are providing eServices; Out of this, 2.62 lakh are at GP level. Along with other services, CSCs are  providing  services  related  to  Banking  and  Finance  to  rural  citizens.  Over  350+  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,  3.23  crore  registered  user  of  DigiLocker.  369  crore authentic documents have been issued. 144 Issuers and 42 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, 3,34,963 resources under 7,839 catalogs published by 162 Ministries/Departments.
-  eTaal: eTaal  is  a  web  portal  for  dissemination  of  e-Transactions  statistics  of  National  and  State  level  eGovernance  Projects  including  Mission  Mode  Projects.  It  receives  transaction  statistics  from  web  based applications periodically on near real time basis. More than 3691 crore transactions have been recorded for 3,751 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.  2,99,544  Sellers  and  Services  providers  are registered on the portal. There are 14,85,806 Products and 19,415+ Services are available on the portal.
-  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 3.06 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, 30.79 lakh online appointments have been made in 237 Hospitals through ORS.
-  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,  497 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  490  services  from  104  departments  and  21  States  are already available on UMANG platform.
-  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  95  lakh  users  are registered  with  MyGov,  participating  in  various  activities  hosted  on  MyGov  platform.  MyGov  activities  are structured under 64 groups consisting of 864 tasks, 816 discussions, 265 Polls/Surveys and 185 talks.
-  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

| Financial Year   |   Budget allocated (Rs. in Crore) | Actual Expenditure (Rs. in Crore)   |
|------------------|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
| 2015-16          |                           1550.8  | 1452.70                             |
| 2016-17          |                           1244.93 | 1217.65                             |
| 2017-18          |                           1413.63 | 1407.19                             |
| 2018-19          |                           3339.73 | 3328.57                             |
| 2019-20          |                           3750.76 | 2049.10 (as on 11.11.2019)          |

digital literacy in rural India by covering 6 Crore rural households (one person per household). As on date, over 2.30 crore candidates have been trained under PMGDISHA scheme, out of which more than 1.69 crore candidates have been certified.

##  Electronics Manufacturing

-  Modified  Special  Incentive  Package  (M-SIPS):  As  on  31 st October,  2019,  233  applications  with  proposed investment of approximately Rs. 63,610 crore have been approved; 21 applications with proposed investments of approximately Rs. 9,728 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.

(d)  and  (e):    Government  had  launched  India  BPO  Promotion  Scheme  (IBPS)  and  North  East  BPO  Promotion Scheme (NEBPS) under Digital India Program with the aim to create employment opportunities. Details-State/UTwise and employment created is placed at annexure.

Annexure

## Number of BPO/ITeS units started in each State/UT under IBPS and NEBPS

| State/UT          | No. of units   |   Direct employment reported |
|-------------------|----------------|------------------------------|
| Andhra Pradesh    | 45             |                         8749 |
| Bihar             | 12             |                         1095 |
| Chandigarh        | 1              |                           58 |
| Chhattisgarh      | 4              |                          194 |
| Gujarat           | 1              |                           10 |
| Haryana           | 3              |                          151 |
| Himachal Pradesh  | 3              |                          144 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 8              |                          559 |
| Jharkhand         | 20             |                         1752 |
| Karnataka         | 11             |                         1353 |
| Kerala            | 3              |                          205 |
| Madhya Pradesh    | 6              |                         1155 |
| Maharashtra       | 16             |                         2059 |
| Odisha            | 21             |                         1894 |
| Puducherry        | 1              |                          105 |
| Punjab            | 10             |                         3481 |
| Rajasthan         | 3              |                          579 |
| Tamil Nadu        | 47             |                         8035 |
| Telangana         | 3              |                          210 |
| Uttar Pradesh     | 13             |                          902 |
| Uttarakhand       | 6              |                          295 |
| West Bengal       | 6              |                          182 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1              |                           28 |
| Assam             | 6              |                          235 |
| Manipur           | 3              |                           82 |
| Meghalaya         | 2              |                          174 |
| Nagaland          | 1              |                          130 |
| Tripura           | 1              |                           10 |
| Total:            | 257 Units      |                        33826 |

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