Lok Sabha Question No. 344 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-12
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: PARBHUBHAI NAGARBHAI VASAVA, ANIL SHIROLE, George Baker

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 344

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 12.12.2018

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 344.   SHRI PARBHUBHAI NAGARBHAI VASAVA: SHRI ANIL SHIROLE: SHRI GEORGE BAKER:

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

- (a). the salient features of Digital India Programme;
- (b). the details of the funds sanctioned, allocated and utilized under this programme since its inception in the country, State/ UT-wise including that of Maharashtra, Gujarat and West Bengal;
- (c). the details of the target set and achievements made under this programme so far;
- (d). whether the instances of phishing sites misusing the Government's flagship schemes and  debiting  amounts  from  bank  accounts  have  come  to  the  knowledge  of  the Government;
- (e). if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor: and
- (f). whether the Government has identified these sites and if so, the details thereof and the action taken by the Government in this regard?

## 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 departments.

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.

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

## Vision Area 1:  Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen

-  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).  3,01,154  Kms  optical  fiber  has been laid connecting 1,21,652 Gram Panchayats. 1,16,411 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 122.91+ 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  active  and  transacting  for  delivery  of eServices; Out of this, 2.10 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 and formal and informal employment for 12 lakh young men and women in rural areas have been created.
-  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.  2.22  crore documents have been uploaded by 1.66 crore registered user of DigiLocker. 105 Issuers and 30 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, 241,411 resources under 4,438 catalogs published by 142 Ministries/Departments (84 Central and 58 States/UTs Departments).
-  eSign  framework    -  Online  Electronic  Signature  Service: eSign  is  an  initiative  for easy,  efficient,  and  secure  signing  of  electronic  documents  by  an  Aadhaar  holder. Aadhaar  holders  (individuals,  Government  officials,  corporate  executives,  etc.)  can digitally  sign  an  electronic  document without having a hardware cryptographic device. Five agencies namely eMudhra Ltd., C-DAC, (n)Code Solutions, NSDL e-Governance

Infrastructure Ltd. and Capricorn have been empanelled to offer e-Sign Services. Over 5.28+ crore eSign have been issued.

## Vision Area 2: Governance & Services on Demand

-  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 3143 crore transactions have been recorded for 3645 services since January 2018.
-  Direct Benefit Transfers(DBT): 433 schemes of 56 Ministries/ Departments are there on DBT platform.  An amount of more than Rs. 5.37 Lakh Crore has been transferred through DBT and the Ministries/Departments have reported savings of Rs 90,000 crore in last three years due to implementation of schemes in DBT mode.
-  E-Office: It is a Digital Workplace Solution which aims to usher in efficient, effective and transparent inter-government and intra-government transactions and processes. NIC has  implemented  e-Office  Portal  in  149  Central  Government  (Ministries/Departments) and 122 State Governments (Secretariats/District Administrations).
-  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. 1,45,106 Sellers and Services  providers  are  registered  on  the  portal.  Also  others  Services  are  registered namely  Transport,  Scanning/Digitization,  IT  Manpower,  FMS  etc.  There  are  501,144 Products and Services 4,917+ are available on the portal. 9,89,914 orders processed with value of Rs 14,664 Crore.
-  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 2.34 crore pensioners have registered themselves to avail of this facility for their life certificates.
-  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, 20.27 lakh online appointments have been made in 190 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 1.26 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 325 services from 59 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.

## Vision Area 3: Digital Empowerment of Citizens

-  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  71  lakh  users  are registered  with  MyGov,  participating  in  various  activities  hosted  on  MyGov  platform. MyGov  activities are structured under 64 groups consisting of 795 tasks, 791 discussions, 246 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). So far, more than 1.64  crore  candidates  have  been  enrolled,  out  of  which  training  has  been  imparted  to more than 1.60 crore candidates and 85.97 lakh candidates have been certified.
-  Information  Security  Education  and  Awareness  (ISEA)  Project: The  Information Security  Education  and  Awareness  (ISEA)  Project  Phase-II  was  approved  with  an objective of capacity building in the area of Information Security, training of Government  personnel  and  creation  of  mass  Information  Security  awareness.  So  far, 28,069  candidates  have  been  trained  in  various  formal/non-formal  courses  and  6,341 Government  officials  have  been  trained  in  various  short  term  courses  in  the  area  of Information Security.

## Other Initiatives

##  IT for Jobs

-  48,300 seats have been approved under India BPO scheme and over 38,855 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

-  268  Investment  proposals  under  Modified  Specific  Incentive  Programmes  (MSIPs) having  a  proposed  investment  of  Rs.  62,985  crore  have  been  so  far  received.  188 proposals with proposed investments of Rs. 40,922 crore have been approved.
-  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): Yes,  Sir. In one  of  the reported instance, e-grarn Digital  (website -egramdigital.co.in)  was  misusing  the  Government  flagship  Digital  India  programme,  for extorting  money  from  citizens,  across  many  States,  for  becoming  State  Partners  and Distributors  for  fake  scheme  "Apka  Angootha,  Apka  Bank"  and  duping  citizens  to  make payments for biometric devices.
- (f): Yes, Sir. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has issued directives to all  Central  Ministries/Departments  and  States/UTs  to  safeguard  citizens  from  fraudulent activities carried out in the name of Government schemes.

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