Lok Sabha Question No. 4075 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-18
Subject: Training Centres for Digital Education
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Chinta Anuradha

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (MeitY)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 4075

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 18.03.2020

## TRAINING   CENTRES  FOR DIGITAL  EDUCATION

## 4075.  SHRIMATI CHINTA ANURADHA:

Will the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether the Government has set up training centres in various districts and States for digital education of the poor people and if so, the details thereof along with the number of such centres set up during each of the last three years, State/UT-wise; and
- (b)      whether  the  Government  proposes  to  provide  free  Wi-Fi  facilities  to  poor  people  of  the  country particularly in Andhra Pradesh and if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor ?

## ANSWER

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

- (a): Key  initiatives  taken  by  the  Ministry  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology  (MeitY)  for imparting Digital Education/Literacy for the citizens of the country including poor people are as under:-
- (i) National  Institute  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology  (NIELIT),  an  autonomous  scientific society  is  actively  engaged  in  capacity  building  and  skill  development  in  the  areas  of  Information Technology  (IT),  Electronics,  Communication  Technologies  and  related  verticals  through  its  42 Centres/Extension Centres operating in various States/UTs. It offers courses both in the formal as well as  the  non-formal  sectors  and  is  also  one  of  the  National  Examination  Bodies  which  accredits institutes/organizations for the conduct of courses in the non-formal sector. NIELIT is also networked through  924  accredited  training  institutions  for  training  of  O/A/B/C  level  courses  under  DOEACC Scheme  and  also  through  10,246  facilitation  centres  engaged  in  training  at  various  levels  of  digital literacy  courses.  The  details  of  State/UT-wise  NIELIT  centres  setup  during  the  last  three  years  is  at Annexure-I.
- (ii) CSC e-Governance  Services  India  Limited  (CSC-SPV)  has  been  setup  as  a  special  purpose  vehicle incorporated  under  companies  act  1956.  The  CSC-SPV  is  the  implementing  agency  of  several  key schemes of Government including Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) and Digital Villages. CSC-SPV has also established CSC Academies to provide education and skillbased training to the masses in rural and semi-urban India through Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs). The main objective of PMGDISHA scheme is to make six crore rural households digitally literate (one person  per  household),  across  States/UTs.  The  Digital  Village  project  aims  to  cover  800  Gram Panchayats  (GPs)/villages  with  at  least  one  village  per  District  per  State/UT.  The  objective  of  the Digital Village project inter-alia includes creation of awareness and capacity building activities on IT systems.  The  details  state-wise  Training  centres  under  PMGDISHA,  Digital  Villages  and  CSC Academies is given in Annexure-II .
- (b):   Department of Telecommunications is implementing BharatNet project in a phased manner to provide broadband connectivity to all the Gram Panchayats (approx. 2,50,000) in the country. As part of BharatNet

project, the last mile connectivity, through Wi-Fi or any other suitable broadband access technology is to be provided in all Gram Panchayats (GPs). For the 1.23 lakh GPs (approx.) covered under BharatNet Phase-I, the  provisioning  of  Wi-Fi  Services  has  been  assigned  to  Government  of  Rajasthan  (for  10,000  GPs  in Rajasthan)  and  rest  to  CSC  e-Governance  Services  India  Limited  including  over  1400  GPs  in  Andhra Pradesh. At present these Wi-Fi services are being provided free of cost.

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Annexure-I Year wise details of augmentation of NIELIT own Centre during the last 3 years:-

| Financial Year   | No. of Centres   | Location/State                                                                         |
|------------------|------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 2017-18          | 2                | Pali(Rajasthan),Haridwar (Uttarakhand)                                                 |
| 2018-19          | 4                | Lakhanpura (Bihar), Majuli (Assam), Mandi (Himachal Pradesh), Tezu (Arunachal Pradesh) |
| 2019-20          | Nil              | N.A.                                                                                   |

## Annexure-II

State-wise details in respect of CSC e-Governance Services India Limited:-

## 1. Training centres under PMGDISHA :

|   S.No. | State Name               | 2017-18   | 2018-19   | 2019-20   |
|---------|--------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|       1 | Andaman and Nicobar Isl. | 7         | 25        | 19        |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh           | 3,501     | 1,452     | 4,654     |
|       3 | Arunachal Pradesh        | 45        | 29        | 188       |
|       4 | Assam                    | 2,131     | 1,653     | 3,311     |
|       5 | Bihar                    | 5,319     | 3,807     | 19,657    |
|       6 | Chandigarh               | 4         | 1         | 99        |
|       7 | Chhattisgarh             | 6,102     | 1,751     | 2,958     |
|       8 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      | 1         | 2         | 5         |
|       9 | Daman &Diu               | 3         | 7         | 1         |
|      10 | Delhi                    | 52        | 5         | 5         |
|      11 | Goa                      | 12        | 24        | 9         |
|      12 | Gujarat                  | 3,774     | 1,275     | 1,425     |
|      13 | Haryana                  | 4,384     | 2,463     | 1,070     |
|      14 | Himachal Pradesh         | 1,510     | 518       | 441       |
|      15 | Jammu And Kashmir        | 1,415     | 486       | 196       |
|      16 | Jharkhand                | 4,896     | 862       | 1,106     |
|      17 | Karnataka                | 1,367     | 1,280     | 1,438     |
|      18 | Kerala                   | 621       | 349       | 215       |
|      19 | Ladakh                   | 13        | 1         | -         |
|      20 | Lakshadweep              | -         | 2         | 1         |
|      21 | Madhya Pradesh           | 7,299     | 4,150     | 2,366     |
|      22 | Maharashtra              | 5,353     | 6,147     | 9,866     |
|      23 | Manipur                  | 176       | 24        | 19        |
|      24 | Meghalaya                | 151       | 271       | 93        |
|      25 | Mizoram                  | 27        | 35        | 55        |
|      26 | Nagaland                 | 45        | 33        | 32        |
|      27 | Odisha                   | 7,289     | 1,177     | 903       |
|      28 | Puducherry               | 89        | 8         | 84        |
|      29 | Punjab                   | 3,356     | 3,104     | 1,303     |

| 30          | Rajasthan     | 5,221   | 2,597   | 1,041   |
|-------------|---------------|---------|---------|---------|
| 31          | Sikkim        | 9       | 6       | 9       |
| 32          | Tamil Nadu    | 2,989   | 2,022   | 543     |
| 33          | Telangana     | 2,055   | 671     | 959     |
| 34          | Tripura       | 214     | 284     | 153     |
| 35          | Uttar Pradesh | 18,269  | 10,483  | 11,521  |
| 36          | Uttarakhand   | 1,514   | 749     | 1,398   |
| 37          | West Bengal   | 3,329   | 1,122   | 1,751   |
| Grand Total | Grand Total   | 92,542  | 48,875  | 68,894  |

2. CSC Academy :
3. Digital village :

| State-wise count of registered CSC Academies as on 13.03.2020   | State-wise count of registered CSC Academies as on 13.03.2020   | State-wise count of registered CSC Academies as on 13.03.2020   |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| S.No.                                                           | State                                                           | Count                                                           |
| 1                                                               | Andhra Pradesh                                                  | 83                                                              |
| 2                                                               | Arunachal Pradesh                                               | 1                                                               |
| 3                                                               | Assam                                                           | 126                                                             |
| 4                                                               | Bihar                                                           | 272                                                             |
| 5                                                               | Chhattisgarh                                                    | 173                                                             |
| 6                                                               | Delhi                                                           | 20                                                              |
| 7                                                               | Gujarat                                                         | 171                                                             |
| 8                                                               | Haryana                                                         | 91                                                              |
| 9                                                               | Himachal Pradesh                                                | 79                                                              |
| 10                                                              | Jammu &Kashmir                                                  | 57                                                              |
| 11                                                              | Jharkhand                                                       | 223                                                             |
| 12                                                              | Karnataka                                                       | 151                                                             |
| 13                                                              | Kerala                                                          | 53                                                              |
| 14                                                              | Madhya Pradesh                                                  | 315                                                             |
| 15                                                              | Maharashtra                                                     | 356                                                             |
| 16                                                              | Manipur                                                         | 8                                                               |
| 17                                                              | Meghalaya                                                       | 12                                                              |
| 18                                                              | Mizoram                                                         | 3                                                               |
| 19                                                              | Nagaland                                                        | 2                                                               |
| 20                                                              | Odisha                                                          | 316                                                             |
| 21                                                              | Punjab                                                          | 105                                                             |
| 22                                                              | Rajasthan                                                       | 151                                                             |
| 23                                                              | Tamil Nadu                                                      | 121                                                             |
| 24                                                              | Telangana                                                       | 48                                                              |
| 25                                                              | Tripura                                                         | 1                                                               |
| 26                                                              | Uttar Pradesh                                                   | 931                                                             |
| 27                                                              | Uttarakhand                                                     | 39                                                              |

| 28          | West Bengal   |   213 |
|-------------|---------------|-------|
| Grand Total | Grand Total   |  4121 |

| State-wise data of Digital Villages   | State-wise data of Digital Villages   | State-wise data of Digital Villages   |
|---------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| S.No                                  | State/ UT                             | Count                                 |
| 1                                     | Andaman Nicobar                       | 1                                     |
| 2                                     | Andhra Pradesh                        | 31                                    |
| 3                                     | Arunachal Pradesh                     | 18                                    |
| 4                                     | Assam                                 | 33                                    |
| 5                                     | Bihar                                 | 39                                    |
| 6                                     | Chhattisgarh                          | 46                                    |
| 7                                     | Dadar Nagar Haveli                    | 1                                     |
| 8                                     | Daman &Diu                            | 2                                     |
| 9                                     | Goa                                   | 2                                     |
| 10                                    | Gujarat                               | 34                                    |
| 11                                    | Haryana                               | 22                                    |
| 12                                    | Himachal Pradesh                      | 12                                    |
| 13                                    | Jammu &Kashmir                        | 22                                    |
| 14                                    | Jharkhand                             | 27                                    |
| 15                                    | Karnataka                             | 32                                    |
| 16                                    | Kerala                                | 14                                    |
| 17                                    | Lakshadweep                           | 1                                     |
| 18                                    | Madhya Pradesh                        | 53                                    |
| 19                                    | Maharashtra                           | 45                                    |
| 20                                    | Manipur                               | 15                                    |
| 21                                    | Meghalaya                             | 11                                    |
| 22                                    | Mizoram                               | 8                                     |
| 23                                    | Nagaland                              | 11                                    |
| 24                                    | Odisha                                | 30                                    |

| 25          | Puducherry    |   4 |
|-------------|---------------|-----|
| 26          | Punjab        |  23 |
| 27          | Rajasthan     |  33 |
| 28          | Sikkim        |   4 |
| 29          | Tamil Nadu    |  42 |
| 30          | Telangana     |  31 |
| 31          | Tripura       |   8 |
| 32          | Uttar Pradesh | 103 |
| 33          | Uttarakhand   |  15 |
| 34          | West Bengal   |  24 |
| Grand Total | Grand Total   | 797 |

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