Lok Sabha Question No. 1721 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-02
Subject: Funds for Digital Education
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangre

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOKSABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1721 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.03.2020

## Funds for Digital Education

## †1721.SHRI SUDHAKAR TUKARAM SHRANGARE:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  the  digital  education  programmes  and  schemes  being  run  to  impart  employment oriented and quality education to students and to provide training to the teachers along with their teaching work in the remote areas and rural areas of the country, State-wise including Maharashtra;
- (b) the funds allocated and spent on digital education specially in the rural areas during the last three years and the details thereof, State-wise; and
- (c) if  so, the digital schemes related to health and the main objectives thereof along with the details thereof, State-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

- (a) The  key  initiatives  for  the  Ministry  of  Human  Resource  Development  on  Digital  Education programmes include:
-  SWAYAM :  the online education platform covering all disciplines in higher and school education.
-  SWAYAM Prabha : 32 DTH TV high quality educational channels for higher and school education.
-  The Free and Open Source Software for Education (FOSSEE) : to promote the use of open source software in higher education.
-  ARPIT: An online Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT) for the in-service teachers in the higher education.
-  Further  to  facilitate  digital  education  in  rural  areas,  full-fledged  degree/diploma  level  online education have started from January, 2020 by IGNOU(Indira Gandhi National Open University) and Amity University.
-  DIKSHA: The DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure  for  Knowledge  Sharing)  platform  offers  teachers, students and parents, engaging learning material relevant to the prescribed school curriculum.
-  Talking  books  for  Visually  Impaired  Learners  was developed  in  DAISY  (Digital  Accessible Information System) format for Senior Secondary and Secondary Course. DAISY is designed to be a complete audio substitute for print material and is specifically designed for use by people with "print disabilities," including blindness, impaired vision, and dyslexia.
-  Mukta  Vidya  Vani: Web  Audio  Streaming  -  Live  Personal  Contact  Programmes  of  3  hours broadcast every day from NIOS Audio Studio, then repeat 2 times and archived.
-  Open Educational Resources (OER): OERs available specifically for Vocational programmes to be offered  at  Secondary  (10 th )  and  Sr.  Secondary  (+2)  levels,  including  standalone  programmes,  in partnership with state level institutions and organizations.
-  e-Pathshala : A web portal ( http://epathshala.nic.in/, http://epathshala.gov.in/ ) and National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER): NROER portal (http://nroer.gov.in/welcome) were developed for teachers and teacher-educators.
-  National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA): A web portal and mobile app for management of NISHTHA training has been developed. The training for Heads & Teachers has been completed for 8 states and is in progress for 18 States.
- (b) All the above schemes of Higher Education & School Education are applicable pan India including Maharashtra. The funds allocated and spent in the last 3 years are as follows:

## Higher Education:

| Scheme name                     | 2017-18   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   | 2018-19   | 2019-20   | 2019-20   |
|---------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|                                 | Allocated | Spent     | Allocated | Spent     | Allocated | Spent     |
| FOSSEE                          | 3.00      | 3.00      | 5.00      | 3.00      | 7.00      | 6.994     |
| SWAYAM                          | 90.00     | 63.07     | 130.00    | 117.27    | 130.00    | 95.20     |
| NMEICT (SWAYAM Prabha included) | 160       | 63.43     | 150       | 28.364    | 170       | 55.138    |

## School Education:

| Scheme name                 | 2017-18 Spent   |   2018-19 Spent | 2019-20 Spent   |
|-----------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| NIOS (Digital Education)    | 1.85            |            3.41 | 4.82            |
| NCERT(Digital Education)    | 5.01            |            5.23 | 4.46            |
| ICT(Statewise-Annex. I)     | 637.63          |          771.18 | 316.92          |
| DIKSHA(Statewise-Annex. II) |                 |            2.98 |                 |

Amount in Cr

Amount in Cr

- (c) National  Medical  College  Network  (NMCN)  scheme  was  created  with  an  aim  of  creating  a homogenous  environment  within  shortlisted  50  Medical  Colleges  interconnected  on  National Knowledge  Network  (NKN)  to  provide  Tele-Education, Tele-Mentoring, Tele-Medicine and eLearning facilities to the Students, Doctors and Citizens. The Central Sponsored Scheme (CSS) got approved with the estimated budget of Rs. 104 Crores through EFC in Feb 2014 with implementation and Operational timelines of  5 years  (  where  NMCN is also  one of  the  components). Ministry  of Health  &  Family  Welfare  (MoHFW)  in  consultation  with  State  Governments  has  identified  a National  Resource  Centre  (NRC)  at  Sanjay  Gandhi  Postgraduate  Institute  of  Medical  Sciences (SGPGI)- Lucknow for providing necessary handholding and technical support for implementation and  7  Regional  Resource  Centers  (RRCs)  in  different  zones  to  take  up  the  task  of  NMCN implementation. The NMCN scheme is operational in 49 Colleges.

Approved Budget Outlay per Institute (as per EFC).

| S. No.   | Item Description                                              | CAPEX Cost   | OPEX Cost    |              |
|----------|---------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
| S. No.   | Item Description                                              | CAPEX Cost   | OPEX Cost    | Total        |
| 1        | Medical Colleges                                              | 70,17,600    | 85,97,780    | 1,56,15,380  |
| 2        | Regional Resource Centre                                      | 1,73,10,750  | 1,91,13,480  | 3,64,24,230  |
| 3.       | National Resource Centre                                      | 4,66,76,300  | 17,90,62,520 | 22,57,38,820 |
| 4.       | Establishment of Disaster Recovery Site at JIPMER, Puducherry | 2,50,00,000  | 1,55,48,000  | 4,05,48,000  |
| 5.       | Miscellaneous                                                 |              |              | 4,50,00,000  |
| 6.       |                                                               | TOTAL        | TOTAL        | 36,33,26,430 |

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Annexure - I as mentioned in part  b of the answer given to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No 1721 to be answered on 02.03.2020 asked by Shri Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangare regarding 'Funds for Digital Education'

## Approval and expenditure under ICT

| Sl. No.   | State/UT                    | 2017-18     | 2017-18     | 2018-19   | 2018-19     | 2019-20 (till 31.01.2020)   | 2019-20 (till 31.01.2020)   |
|-----------|-----------------------------|-------------|-------------|-----------|-------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
|           |                             | Approved    | Expenditure | Approved  | Expenditure | Approved                    | Expenditure                 |
| 1         | Andaman And Nicobar Islands | 1.98        | 0.62        | 4.68      | 1.02        | 0.67                        | 2.07                        |
| 2         | Andhra Pradesh              | 0.00        | 0.43        | 30.00     | 0.00        | 48.52                       | 18.59                       |
| 3         | Arunachal Pradesh           | 1.13        | 0.00        | 2.34      | 0.15        | 2.11                        | 0.00                        |
| 4         | Assam                       | 72.67       | 59.33       | 18.13     | 22.05       | 40.54                       | 11.33                       |
| 5         | Bihar                       | 24.32       | 0.00        | 46.21     | 0.00        | 30.78                       | 0.00                        |
| 6         | Chandigarh                  | 0.51        | 0.00        | 0.99      | 0.91        | 0.53                        | 0.53                        |
| 7         | Chhattisgarh                | 8.75        | 8.75        | 24.16     | 3.27        | 0.00                        | 68.59                       |
| 8         | Dadra And Nagar Haveli      | 0.00        | 0.00        | 0.43      | 0.28        | 0.05                        | 0.00                        |
| 9         | Daman And Diu               | 0.18        | 0.00        | 1.40      | 0.02        | 0.00                        | 0.00                        |
| 10        | Delhi                       | 26.54       | 18.00       | 0.00      | 18.20       | 14.82                       | 10.00                       |
| 11        | Goa                         | 0.00        | 0.00        | 0.27      | 0.27        | 0.00                        | 0.00                        |
| 12        | Gujarat                     | 0.00        | 0.00        | 32.02     | 0.00        | 22.80                       | 0.00                        |
| 13        | Haryana                     | 12.73       | 0.00        | 59.31     | 16.98       | 0.00                        | 0.00                        |
| 14        | Himachal Pradesh            | 37.62       | 35.97       | 49.10     | 57.06       | 45.28                       | 11.90                       |
| 15        | Jammu& Kashmir              | 36.36       | 0.00        | 51.42     | 26.71       | 24.43                       | 12.57                       |
| 16        | Jharkhand                   | 28.74       | 14.49       | 15.06     | 15.21       | 50.82                       | 11.24                       |
| 17        | Karnataka                   | 0.00        | 0.00        | 47.64     | 33.36       | 135.45                      | 0.00                        |
| 18        | Kerala                      | 1.15        | 0.00        | 0.00      | 0.00        | 0.00                        | 0.00                        |
| 19        | Lakshadweep                 | 0.00        | 0.00        | 1.15      | 0.00        | 0.00                        | 0.00                        |
| 20        | Madhya Pradesh              | 0.00        | 0.00        | 9.66      | 0.00        | 0.00                        | 0.00                        |
| 21        | Maharashtra                 | 110.83      | 200.37      | 110.66    | 110.66      | 154.89                      | 23.69                       |
| 22        | Manipur                     | 6.84        | 0.00        | 7.79      | 19.97       | 12.34                       | 1.67                        |
| 23        | Meghalaya                   | 1.60        | 3.51        | 0.00      | 3.33        | 2.76                        | 0.00                        |
| 24        | Mizoram                     | 1.44        | 0.00        | 0.90      | 0.60        | 0.00                        | 0.00                        |
| 25        | Nagaland                    | 0.00        | 0.00        | 0.88      | 0.88        | 0.50                        | 0.00                        |
| 26        | Odisha                      | 122.48      | 116.08      | 233.02    | 131.09      | 98.76                       | 40.00                       |
| 27        | Puducherry                  | 2.52        | 4.50        | 4.80      | 6.71        | 2.52                        | 0.00                        |
| 28        | Punjab                      | 6.40        | 0.00        | 6.62      | 6.62        | 0.00                        | 0.00                        |
| 29        | Rajasthan                   | 42.41       | 86.53       | 69.09     | 50.79       | 36.42                       | 4.20                        |
| 30        | Sikkim                      | 2.26        | 2.22        | 6.74      | 3.94        | 4.14                        | 4.99                        |
| 31        | Tamil Nadu                  | 0.00        | 0.00        | 0.00      | 214.39      | 104.28                      | 67.39                       |
| 32        | Telangana                   | 0.00        | 0.00        | 52.73     | 26.69       | 40.46                       | 0.00                        |
| 33        | Tripura                     | 0.00        | 0.00        | 0.00      | 0.00        | 5.71                        | 0.00                        |
| 34        | Uttar Pradesh               | 0.00        | 86.83       | 37.41     | 0.00        | 1.09                        | 0.00                        |
| 35        | Uttarakhand                 | 0.00        | 0.00        | 40.83     | 0.00        | 1.45                        | 28.16                       |
|           | Total                       |             |             | 965.46    |             |                             |                             |
| 36        | West Bengal                 | 0.00 549.47 | 0.00 637.63 | 0.00      | 0.00 771.18 | 0.00 882.12                 | 0.00 316.92                 |

Note: Expenditure may include the spillover amount also.

(Rs. in Crore)

Annexure - II as mentioned in part b of the answer given to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No 1721 to be answered on 02.03.2020 asked by Shri Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangare regarding 'Funds for Digital Education'

Allocation and Expenditure on DIKSHA during 2018-19*

(Rs. in Lakh)

| Sl.No       | Particular                  |   Budget Approved |   Total Expenditure |
|-------------|-----------------------------|-------------------|---------------------|
| 1           | Andaman And Nicobar Islands |              8.9  |               8.9   |
| 2           | Andhra Pradesh              |            246    |               0     |
| 3           | Arunachal Pradesh           |             38.58 |              10.23  |
| 4           | Assam                       |             22.59 |              20.34  |
| 5           | Bihar                       |             55.72 |               0     |
| 6           | Chandigarh                  |             12    |               1.65  |
| 7           | Chhattisgarh                |             36    |               6.2   |
| 8           | Dadra And Nagar Haveli      |              6    |               0     |
| 9           | Daman And Diu               |              5.1  |               0     |
| 10          | Delhi                       |             52.8  |              52.8   |
| 11          | Goa                         |             23.25 |               0.41  |
| 12          | Gujarat                     |             59.78 |               0     |
| 13          | Haryana                     |             11.8  |               0     |
| 14          | Himachal Pradesh            |             43.8  |               0     |
| 15          | Jammu And Kashmir           |             34.44 |               0     |
| 16          | Jharkhand                   |             60    |               0     |
| 17          | Karnataka                   |             31    |               0     |
| 18          | Kerala                      |             45    |              15.12  |
| 19          | Lakshadweep                 |              0.96 |               0     |
| 20          | Madhya Pradesh              |             60.19 |               0     |
| 21          | Maharashtra                 |             40    |              16.701 |
| 22          | Manipur                     |             36.81 |              20     |
| 23          | Meghalaya                   |             23.02 |              10     |
| 24          | Mizoram                     |             33.25 |               0     |
| 25          | Nagaland                    |             25    |              13.94  |
| 26          | Odisha                      |             52    |              30     |
| 27          | Puducherry                  |              9.5  |               0     |
| 28          | Punjab                      |             74.97 |               0     |
| 29          | Rajasthan                   |            100    |               0.11  |
| 30          | Sikkim                      |             52.14 |              10.39  |
| 31          | Tamil Nadu                  |            150    |               0     |
| 32          | Telangana                   |             47.87 |              35     |
| 33          | Tripura                     |             45.24 |              45.24  |
| 34          | Uttar Pradesh               |            112    |               0     |
| 35          | Uttarakhand                 |             20.41 |               1.96  |
| 36          | West Bengal                 |             36    |               0     |
| Grand Total | Grand Total                 |           1712.12 |             298.991 |