Lok Sabha Question No. 4658 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-24
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Kripanath Mallah, Unmesh Bhaiyyasaheb Patil, Heena Vijaykumar Gavit, Shrikant Eknath Shinde, Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhepatil, Jaskaur Meena, Sambhajirao Mane Dhairyasheel

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4658

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 24.03.2021

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 4658.   SHRI KRIPANATH MALLAH:  SHRI UNMESH BHAIYYASAHEB PATIL: DR. HEENA GAVIT:  DR. SHRIKANT EKNATH SHINDE: DR. SUJAY RADHAKRISHNA VIKHE PATIL:  SHRIMATI JASKAUR MEENA: SHRI DHAIRYASHEEL SAMBHAJIRAO MANE:

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

- (a) the salient features of the Digital India Programme and the details of the funds sanctioned, allocated  and  utilized  thereunder  across  the  country  during  each  of  the  last  three  years, State/UT-wise including Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Assam;
- (b) the details of the target set and the achievement made by the Government under the aforesaid programme;
- (c) the  number  of  states  covered  under  this  programme  along  with  the  number  of  districts covered under the same in Assam;
- (d) the time by which all the districts in Assam will be covered under the programme and the steps  taken/being  taken  by  the  Government  to  create  further  awareness  and  expand  digital facilities in the digitized villages;
- (e) the measures taken/being taken by the Government to cover remote villages of Dausa district in Rajasthan under this programme; and
- (f) whether the Government proposes to set up an IT Park in Maharashtra and if so, the details threreof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI SANJAY DHOTRE)

(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-based  economy  by  ensuring  digital access, digital inclusion, digital empowerment and bridging the digital divide. 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 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  MeitY  under Digital India programme during last 3 years is as follows:

| Financial Year   |   Budget allocated (Rs. in Cr.) |   Actual Expenditure (Rs. in Cr.) |
|------------------|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
| 2017-18          |                         1425.63 |                           1451.59 |
| 2018-19          |                         3352.81 |                           3328.54 |
| 2019-20          |                         3212.52 |                           3191.09 |

(b): Digital  India  is  an  umbrella  programme  that  covers  multiple  projects  of  various  central Ministries/Departments  &  States/UTs.  Some  of  the  key  initiatives  undertaken  by  MeitY  under Digital India programme across the country are as follows:

-  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 128+ crore residents have been enrolled.
-  Common Services Centre (CSC): The Common Services Centres are service (Government to Citizen & Business to Citizen) delivery centres. So far, 3.73 Lakh Common Services Centres are functional including 2.78 lakh CSCs at Gram Panchayat levels.
-  Digital Village: MeitY has also initiated the 'Digital Village Pilot Project' in October, 2018. 700 Gram Panchayats (GPs)/Village with atleast one Gram Panchayat/Village per District per State/UT  are  being  covered  under  the  project.  The  digital  services  being  offered  are  Digital Health Services, Education Service, Financial Services, Skill Development, Solar panel powered street  lights  including  Government  to  Citizens  Services  (G2C),  Business  to  Citizen  (B2C) Services.
-  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,  5.8  crore registered user of DigiLocker. 427 crore authentic documents have been issued. 978 Issuers and 157 Requestor organizations have been on-boarded.
-  National Rollout of eDistrict MMP: e-District is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) that aims at electronic delivery of identified high volume citizen centric services at the district or sub-district level. Total 3,870 e-District services have been launched in 705 districts across 33 States/UTs.
-  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,  479,961  resources  under  10,040 catalogs published by 175 Ministries/Departments & State/UTs.
-  eHospital/  Online  Registration  System(ORS): 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, 38.06 lakh online appointments have been made in 272+ 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, 516 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.  About  20689 services from 234 departments(Central & 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 1.70 crore users are registered with MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform.
-  National Knowledge Network: The  Objective  of  the  NKN  is  to  inter-connect  all  knowledge institutions  across  the  country  through  high  speed  data  communication  network  to  encourage sharing of resources and collaborative research. A high speed data communication network has been  established  to  interconnect  Institution  of  higher  learning,  and  research.1747  links  to Institutions  have  been  commissioned  and  made  operational.  516  NKN  links  have  been connected to NIC district centers across India.
-  Jeevan  Pramaan: Digital  Life  Certificate  for  Pensioners  scheme  known  as  Jeevan  Pramaan envisages to digitize the whole process of securing the life certificate. 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  4.51  Crore  Digital  Life  certificates  have  been processed since 2014.
-  Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan(PMGDISHA): The Government has approved a new scheme titled 'Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA)' to usher in digital literacy in rural India by covering 6 Crore rural households (one person per household). So far, training has been imparted to 3.65 crore candidates and out of this more than 2.67 crore candidates have been certified. The scheme is applicable to all rural areas of the country.
-  BPO  Promotion  Scheme: The  India  BPO  Promotion  Scheme  (IBPS)  and  North  East  BPO Promotion Scheme (NEBPS) are initiatives under Digital India Programme to create employment opportunities  for  the  youth  of  the  country  by  setting  up  BPO/ITES  operation  in smaller cities across the country. Under IBPS Scheme, overall, 57,697 seats were allocated to eligible  bidders to  setup  BPO/ITES operations across the country against the target of 48,300 seats.  Under  NEBPS  Scheme,  overall  3511  seats  were  allocated  to  eligible  bidders  to  setup BPO/ITES operations in North Eastern Region (NER) against the target of 5000 seats.
-  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,  a  total  number  of  1,51,431  Gram  Panchayats  (Including Block HQ) have been made Service Ready.

##  Electronics Manufacturing

-  Modified Special Incentive Package (M-SIPS): As on 5 th February,  2021,  294  applications with proposed investment of approximately Rs. 81,085 crore have been approved.
-  Electronic Manufacturing Clusters (EMC): Under Electronic Manufacturing Clusters (EMC) Scheme, 19 Greenfield EMCs and 3 Common Facility Centres (CFCs) measuring an area of 3,464 acres with total project cost of Rs. 3,743 crore including Government Grant-in-Aid of Rs. 1,527 crore have been approved in 15 states across the country. 227 companies engaged in  various  electronics  segments  have  booked  space  for  setting  up  of  their  manufacturing facilities in these EMCs with projected investment of Rs. 35,641 crore.

(c)  and  (d): All  States/UTs  have  already  been  covered  under  Digital  India  programme  including state of Assam. Several schemes/projects are being implemented under Digital India programme for creating awareness and providing digital facilities to all the citizens across the state of Assam. Some key initiatives are as follows:

-  Pradhan  Mantri  Gramin  Digital  Saksharta  Abhiyaan(PMGDISHA): MeitY is also implementing a scheme titled 'Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA)' to usher in digital literacy in rural India by covering 6 crore rural households (one person per household). So far, training has been imparted to 3.65 crore candidates and out of this more than 2.67 crore candidates have been certified. The scheme is applicable to all rural areas of the country.
-  Common Services Centres: The Common Services Centres are service (Government to Citizen & Business to Citizen) delivery centres. Common Services Centres are internet enabled centres operated  by  local  entrepreneur,  called  Village  Level  Entrepreneurs  (VLEs)  and  provide eServices to rural citizens. So far, 3.73 Lakh Common Services Centres are functional including 2.78  lakh  CSCs  at  Gram  Panchayat  levels.  In  the  33  Districts  of  Assam  state,  there  are  total 5,842 functional CSCs of them, 5,018  CSCs are at Gram Panchayat level.
-  Digital Village: MeitY has also initiated the 'Digital Village Pilot Project' in October, 2018. 700 Gram Panchayats (GPs)/Village with atleast one Gram Panchayat/Village per District per State/UT  are  being  covered  under  the  project.  The  digital  services  being  offered  are  Digital Health Services, Education Service, Financial Services, Skill Development, Solar panel powered street  lights  including  Government  to  Citizens  Services  (G2C),  Business  to  Citizen  (B2C) Services.
-  e-District Mission Mode Project (MMP): e-District project has been implemented at district and sub-district 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), Electoral, Consumer Court, Revenue Court, Land Record and services of various departments such as Commercial Tax, Agriculture, Labour, Employment Training & Skill Development etc.
- (e): All  States/UTs  have  already  been  covered  under  Digital  India  programme  including  state  of Rajasthan.  Several  schemes/projects  such  as  Common  Services  Centres(CSCs),  e-District  Mission Mode Projects, Digital Village, Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan(PMGDISHA), etc. are being implemented under Digital India programme for providing e-services to all the citizens across the state  of Rajasthan including Dausa district.
- (f): Currently, 6 Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) Centres are already made operational in the State of Maharashtra in Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Nasik, Mumbai and Pune.

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