Lok Sabha Question No. 475 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-06
Subject: Digital India
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: ANJU BALA, L.R. Shivaramegowda, Tejpratap Singh,Yadav

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 475

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 06.02.2019

## DIGITAL INDIA

## 475.  SHRIMATI ANJU BALA: SHRI L.R. SHIVARAME GOWDA: SHRI TEJ PRATAP SINGH YADAV:

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

- (a). whether  the  Government  is  implementing  Digital  India  Programme  to  digitize  various sectors;
- (b). if so, the current status of Digital India Programme, the target fixed/achieved under the same so far;
- (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  undertaken  by  the  Government  in  this regard; and
- (e). the steps taken by the Government to bridge digital divide in the country?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI S. S. AHLUWALIA)

(a) and (b): 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. Each project has its own budgetary requirement and accordingly project-plan has been charted out by the implementing Ministry/departments. 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).  3,10,097  Kms  optical  fiber  has been laid connecting 1,23,489 Gram Panchayats. 1,16,876 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, 3.05 Lakh Common Services Centre are functional and are providing eServices; Out of this,  2.13  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. This will ensure accelerating the delivery of e-services in the country and  optimizing  ICT  spending  of  the  Government.  To  fast  track  the  adoption  of  cloud computing MeitY, Government of India has empaneled 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.  2.36  crore documents have been uploaded by 1.91 crore registered user of DigiLocker. 112 Issuers and 35 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, 260,470 resources under 4,476 catalogs published by 144 Ministries/Departments (84 Central and 60 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 3813 crore transactions have been recorded for 3653 services since January 2018.
-  Direct Benefit Transfers(DBT): 437 schemes of 55 Ministries/ Departments are there on DBT platform.  An amount of more than Rs. 6.06 Lakh Crore has been transferred through DBT and the Ministries/Departments have reported savings of Rs 1,09,983 crore in last three years due to implementation of schemes in DBT mode.
-  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. 1,89,453 Sellers and Services  providers  are  registered  on  the  portal.  Also  others  Services  are  registered namely  Transport,  Scanning/Digitization,  IT  Manpower,  FMS  etc.  There  are  749,570 Products and 4,164+ 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  2.45  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, 21.59 lakh online appointments have been made in 194 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 1.84 crore applications have been submitted. There are 52 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,  85  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 334 services from 67 departments and 17 States are already available on UMANG and the count is increasing day by day.
-  Rapid Assessment System (RAS): Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has developed Rapid Assessment System (RAS) for continuous feedback for e-services delivered  by  Government  of  India  and  State  Governments.  This  system  has  multiple channels  for  receiving  feedback  and  is  backed  by  analytics.  These  analytics  will  help integrated departments for continuous system improvement and better governance.
-  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  76  lakh  users  are registered  with  MyGov,  participating  in  various  activities  hosted  on  MyGov  platform. MyGov  activities are structured under 64 groups consisting of 804 tasks, 795 discussions, 262 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  28th January,  2019,  a  total  of  1.88  crore  candidates  have  been  trained  under  PMGDISHA scheme, out of which more than 1.03 crore candidates have been certified

##  IT for Jobs

-  48,300 seats have been approved under India BPO scheme and over 45,480 seats have been allocated across 20 States and 2 UTs.
-  5000 seats  have  been  approved  for  BPOs  in  North  East  and  2,185  seats  have  been allocated across 6 States in NER.

##  Electronics Manufacturing

-  193 applications  with  proposed  investment  of  approximately  Rs.  41,611  crore  have been  approved.  19  applications  with  proposed  investments  of  approximately  Rs. 12,841 crore have been recommended by the Appraisal Committee for approval.
-  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.

(c) and  (d): Under  Digital  India  programme  Government  has  imitated  various  projects such  as                    e-Hospital  for  health  services,  DigiDhan  Mission  for  Digital  Payment, SWAYAM for               E-education, e-NAM- online trading platform for  agricultural commodities, MyGov for collaborative governance and Digital democracy, PMGDISHA for Digital  literacy,  Government  e-Marketplace  (GeM)-  to  facilitate  on  line  procurement  of Goods  &  Services  in  Government  and  Unified  Mobile  App  for  New-age  Governance (UMANG) for integrated delivery of services through Smart phone, etc covering most of the sectors including emerging sectors. e-District Mission Mode Project (MMP), Common Services Centre (CSC), State Wide Area Network(SWAN)  and  BharatNet  etc.  have  been  implemented  in  various  districts  of  the country.

(e): To  bridge  the  digital  divide  in  the  country,  Ministry  of  Electronics  and  Information Technology, Government of India has initiated schemes such as IT Mass Literacy (National Digital Literacy Mission) & Digital Saksharta Abhiyan(DISHA) and Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA).

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