Lok Sabha Question No. 2582 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-04
Subject: Digital India
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Ashok Mahadeorao Nete

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2582

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 04.12.2019

## DIGITAL INDIA

## 2582.    SHRI ASHOK MAHADEORAO NETE:

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

- (a) the details of the schemes and projects being implemented in the country under Digital India initiative, State/UT-wise;
- (b) the quarterly performance under the said schemes and projects during each of the last two years; and
- (c) the steps taken by the Government for speeding up the implementation of e-governance, development of network for speedy transmission, digitization and promoting public-private partnership in this regard in the rural areas of the country, State/UTwise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

(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-based  economy  by ensuring  digital  access,  digital  inclusion,  digital  empowerment  and  bridging  the  digital  divide.  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  & States/UTs. 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.  Some  of  the  key  initiatives undertaken under Digital India programme are as follows:

-  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, 3,80,988 Kms optical fiber has been laid connecting 1,40,668 Gram Panchayats. 1,28,376 Gram Panchayats are ready for service.
-  Common Services Centre (CSC): MeitY has initiated a project namely 'Common Services Centre (CSC) 2.0' in August, 2015 under Digital India Programme, which envisages setting up of at least one CSC at Gram Panchayat (GP) to cover all the 2.5 lakh GPs across the country. Common Services Centres are internet enabled centres operated by local entrepreneur, called Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) and provide eServices to rural citizens. Over 350 digital services are being offered by these CSCs. The number of functional CSCs (Urban & Rural) across the Country is 3.64 Lakh, out of which 2.62 Lakh CSCs are functional at Gram Panchayat level.
-  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. To fast track the adoption of cloud computing MeitY, Government of India has empanelled 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. So far, 3.23 crore registered user of DigiLocker. 369 crore authentic documents have been issued. 144 Issuers and 42 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, 3,34,963 resources under 7,839 catalogs published by 162 Ministries/Departments.
-  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 3691 crore transactions have been recorded for 3,751 services since January 2019.
-  Digital Village: MeitY has also initiated the 'Digital Village Pilot Project' in October, 2018.  700 Gram Panchayats(GPs)/ villages with atleast one Gram Panchayat/village per District per State/UT are being covered across the country. The digital services being offered are Digital Health Services (Tele-Health & Tele-Veterinary consultation), Education Service (NIELIT courses  on  BCC/CCC,  Tally),  Financial  Inclusion  Awareness  Programme,  Skill  Development,  Solar  panel  powered  street lights including Government to Citizens Services (G2C), Business to Citizen (B2C) Services.
-  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.  2,99,544  Sellers  and  Services  providers  are  registered  on  the  portal.  There  are  14,85,806 Products and 19,415+ Services are available on the portal.
-  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 3.06 crore Digital Life certificates have been processed since 2014.
-  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, 30.79 lakh online appointments have been made in 237 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, 497 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 490 services from 104 departments and 21 States are already available on UMANG platform.
-  Soil Health Card: It  has been developed to establish the national database on Soil Health and provide fertilizer and micronutrient  suggestions for the soil to farmers. The system captures data at each stage of soil sample collection and testing to generate Soil Health Card in uniform format with local language interface for 22 languages.
-  Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS): AEPS is a bank led model which allows online interoperable financial inclusion transaction at PoS (MicroATM) through the Business correspondent of any bank using the Aadhaar authentication.
-  BHIM: Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) is an app that makes payment transactions simple, easy and quick using Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
-  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  95  lakh  users  are  registered  with  MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform. MyGov activities are structured under 64 groups consisting of 864 tasks, 816 discussions, 265 Polls/Surveys and 185 talks.
-  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). As on date, over 2.30 crore candidates have been trained under PMGDISHA scheme, out of which more than 1.69 crore candidates have been certified.

##  Electronics Manufacturing

- o Modified Special Incentive Package (M-SIPS): As on 31 st October, 2019, 233 applications with proposed investment of approximately  Rs.  63,610  crore  have  been  approved;  21  applications  with  proposed  investments  of  approximately  Rs. 9,728 crore have been recommended by the Appraisal Committee for approval.
- o Electronic  Manufacturing  Clusters  (EMC):  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.
- (c):  The Government is already implementing projects in areas such as e-governance, development of network for transmission, digitization and promoting public-private partnership in the rural areas of the country. Some of the key initiatives are as follows:
-  Common Services Centre (CSC): MeitY has initiated a project namely 'Common Services Centre (CSC) 2.0' in August, 2015 under Digital India Programme, which envisages setting up of at least one CSC at Gram Panchayat (GP) to cover all the 2.5 lakh GPs across the country. Common Services Centres are internet enabled centres operated by local entrepreneur, called Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) and provide eServices to rural citizens. Over 350 digital services are being offered by these CSCs. The number of functional CSCs (Urban & Rural) across the Country is 3.64 Lakh, out of which 2.62 Lakh CSCs are functional at Gram Panchayat level.
-  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  high  volume  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-District services have been launched in 721 districts across all States/ UTs. In the state of West Bengal, 116 e-District services have been launched.
-  Digital Village: MeitY has also initiated the 'Digital Village Pilot Project' in October, 2018.    700 Gram Panchayats(GPs)/ villages with atleast one Gram Panchayat/village per District per State/UT are being covered across the country. The digital services being offered are Digital Health Services (Tele-Health & Tele-Veterinary consultation), Education Service (NIELIT courses  on  BCC/CCC,  Tally),  Financial  Inclusion  Awareness  Programme,  Skill  Development,  Solar  panel  powered  street lights including Government to Citizens Services (G2C), Business to Citizen (B2C) Services. The project is covering atleast one Gram Panchayat/Village from 23 district of the West Bengal for implementation under Digital Village Pilot Project.
-  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, 3,80,988 Kms optical fiber has been laid connecting 1,40,668 Gram Panchayats. 1,28,376 Gram Panchayats are ready for service.
-  National Information Infrastructure (NII): Government has implemented the National Information Infrastructure (NII) pilot project in 7 States, one district in each State/UTs and its block and Gram Panchayat namely Mysore (Karnataka), Trivandrum (Kerala), Peren (Nagaland), Chandigarh, Haridwar (Uttarakhand) and Puducherry covering 1580 Gram Panchayats (GPs) in 36 Blocks and its 4740 government offices for delivery of  e-governance services at the GP level. The pilot has integrated various ICT infrastructure namely SDC, SWAN, NKN, NICNET, SSDG and also NOFN/BharatNet.

The Government is already using services through private participation in various initiatives such as Government e-Market Place, India BPO Promotion Scheme & North East BPO Promotion Scheme, Common Services Centre, Cloud Service Provider(CSP), Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA), Modified Special Incentive Package, etc. to carry out various activities under Digital India programme.