Lok Sabha Question No. 1197 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-25
Subject: Minority Cyber-Gram
Ministry: MINORITY AFFAIRS
Asked by: RABINDRA KUMAR JENA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No.1197

TO BE ANSWERED ON 25.07.2018

Minority Cyber-Gram

## 1197. SHRI RABINDRA KUMAR JENA:

Will the Minister of MINORITY AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any plans of launching Minority Cyber-Gram all across the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the current status of Cyber-Grams that exist across the country;
- (c) the objectives and the target beneficiaries of the yojana;
- (d) the total funds allocated by the Government for this programme;
- (e) the total number of Cyber-Grams that have been opened across the country and that are functional; and
- (f) whether the Government proposes to discontinue the scheme and if so, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF MINORITY AFFAIRS (SHRI MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI)

(a) to (e): A pilot project for minority Cyber Gram was launched for digital literacy in a minority dominated village Chandauli, District Alwar, Rajasthan. The Ministry mainstreamed the Cyber Gram project with the Multi-sectoral  Development  Programme  in  the  year  2014-15  as  a  special  initiative.  Under  this  initiative, students of minority communities are provided  hands on training in computers to enable them to acquire basic Information and Communication  Technology  (ICT)  skills;  become  digitally literate; actively participate in knowledge based activities; access financial, social and government services and use internet for  communications. The initiative covers students of Class VI to Class X belonging to notified minority communities(Muslims,  Sikhs,  Christians,  Buddhists,  Parsis  and  Jains )residing  in  minority  concentration areas indentified under Multi-sectoral Development Programme.(MsDP).  The project is being implemented through  Common  Service  Center  (CSC)  e-governance  India  Ltd-  a  company  under  Department  of Electronics  and  Information  Technology  with  support  of  States/UTs.  The  fund  per  candidate  sanctioned under the programme is Rs.1555/- which is shared by Central Government and State.  As per Cybergram Project Monitoring Unit (PMU) of CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd( http://www.cybergramyojana.in), the present status of implementation of cybergram is as under:-

| State         |   Approved unit (nos. of participants) |   Training completed (nos. of participants) |
|---------------|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| Uttar Pradesh |                                 173143 |                                      107050 |
| West Bengal   |                                 170005 |                                      213085 |
| Tripura       |                                  18109 |                                       18630 |
| Maharashtra   |                                  28000 |                                       19998 |
| Rajasthan     |                                  10400 |                                        9194 |

- (f)  Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram,  the restructured version of Multi-sectoral  Development Programme has given thrust on creating institutional infrastructure and has no provision for individual oriented schemes.

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