Lok Sabha Question No. 626 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-06
Subject: Performance of Schemes Launched by Governmen
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: PRABHATSINH PRATAPSINH CHAUHAN, BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 626

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 06.02.2019

## PERFORMANCE  OF SCHEMES LAUNCHED  BY GOVERNMENT

## 626.  SHRI P.P. CHAUHAN: SHRI BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO:

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

- (a). the year-wise details of the schemes launched by the Government under the Ministry of Electronics  and  Information  Technology  since  the  year  2014  till  date  along  with  the details of the targets set and the achievements made under each of the said schemes;
- (b). the  State-wise  details  of  the  proposals  received  from  various  States  along  with  the proposals  approved  by  the  Union  Government  under  the  schemes  sponsored  by  the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology;
- (c). the  scheme-wise  and  State-wise  details  of  the  funds  allocated and  utilized for implementation of various schemes of this Ministry during each of the last four years and the current year;
- (d). whether  the  Government  has  set  any  time-limit  for  completing  the  pending  schemes and if so, the details thereof;
- (e). whether  the  Government  has  any  mechanism  to  monitor  the  funds  allocated  to  the States/organizations for achieving the said purposes and if so, the details thereof; and
- (f). the action taken against the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) found guilty in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI S.S. AHLUWALIA)

(a):  The  Ministry  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology  (MeitY),  Government  of India has approved a scheme namely 'Digital India' programme on 20 th August, 2014 and formally  launched  the  scheme  on  1 st July,  2015  with  the  vision  to  transform  India  into  a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. This scheme pulled together many then existing schemes which were to be restructured and refocused for implementation in synchronised  manner.  Each  project  has  its  own  budgetary  requirement  and  accordingly project-plan has been charted out by the implementing Ministry/departments. Some of the key initiatives undertaken under this scheme are as follows:

-  Common  Services  Centre  (CSC)  2.0: This  project    was  launched  in  2015,  which consists of expanding the network of kiosks for delivery of G2C Services.These were to be  opened  at  each  of  2,50,000  Gram  Panchayats(GP).  So  far,  3.05  Lakh  Common Services Centre are functional and are providing eServices; Out of this, 2.13 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.
-  National  Digital  Literacy  Mission  (NDLM)/Digital  SakshartaAbhiyan  (DISHA): Government  of  India  has  initiated  two  projectsin  December,  2014  for  digital  literacy namely 'National Digital  Literacy  Mission'  (NDLM)  with  a  target  of  training  10  lakh persons  and  Digital  SakshartaAbhiyan  (DISHA)  with  a  target  of  42.5  lakh  persons covering  one  person  per  family.  These  schemes  have  been  implemented  concurrently across the country and a total of 53.67 lakh candidates have been trained and certified.
-  Pradhan MantriGramin Digital SakshartaAbhiyaan(PMGDISHA): The Government has approved a new  project titled 'Pradhan MantriGramin Digital SakshartaAbhiyan (PMGDISHA)' in February, 2017 to usher in digital literacy in rural India  by  covering  6  Crore  rural  households  (one  person  per  household).  As  on 28 th January, 2019, a total of 1.88 crore candidates have been trained under PMGDISHA scheme, out of which more than 1.03 crore candidates have been certified.
-  India  BPO  Promotion  Scheme  (IBPS): The  Government  has  initiated  India  BPO Promotion Scheme (IBPS) in 2015 under the Digital India Programme, for promotion of BPO/ITES operations across the country and creation of employment opportunities. The scheme provides financial support along with special incentives uptoRs. 1 lakh/seat in the form of Viability Gap Funding (VGF). 48,300 seats have been approved under India BPO scheme and over 45,480 seats have been allocated across 20 States and 2 UTs.
-  North  East  BPO  Promotion  Scheme  (NEBPS): The  North  East  BPO  Promotion Scheme  (NEBPS)  has  been  initiated  in  2015  to  incentivize  BPO/ITES  Operations  in North East Region (NER) for creation of employment opportunities for the youths and growth of IT-ITES Industry. 5000 seats have been approved for BPOs in North East and 2,185 seats have been allocated across 6 States in NER.
-  National Information Infrastructure (NII) Pilot project: A pilot project for a period of one year on National Information Infrastructure (NII) for one district each in 7 states namely  Nagaland,  Karnataka,  Kerala,  Gujarat,  Uttarakhand,  UTs  of  Chandigarh  and Puducherry has been implemented  successfully covering 36 blocks,  1560  Gram Panchayats  (GPs)  and  more  than  4000  government  offices.    The  pilot  has  integrated various ICT infrastructure namely State Data Center(SDC), State wide Area Network(SWAN), National  Knowledge  Network(NKN),  NIC  network(NICNET)  State Service Delivery Gateway(SSDG) and also NOFN/BharatNet.
-  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. UMANG app was launched by the Hon'ble Prime Minister at the fifth edition of the Global Conference on Cyberspace in November, 2017. About 334 services from 67  departments  and  17  States  are  already  available  on  UMANG  and  the  count  is increasing day by day.
-  MyGov: MyGov  is  a  first-of-its-kind  citizen  engagement  platform  for  participatory governance  in  India.  MyGov  platform  was  launched  in  2014  by  the  Hon'ble  Prime Minister of 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  76  lakh  users  are  registered  with MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform. MyGov activities are structured under 64 groups consisting of 804 tasks, 795 discussions, 262 Polls/Surveys and 184 talks.
-  Digital locker: Digital Locker was launch on 1 st July 2015 by the Hon. Prime Minister of India. Digital Locker provides an ecosystem with collection of repositories and gateways for issuers to upload the documents in the digital repositories. 2.36 crore documents have been uploaded by 1.91 crore registered user of DigiLocker. 112 Issuers and 35 Requestor organizations have been on-boarded
-  Jeevan Pramaan: Jeevan Pramaan is a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners. It  was launched on 10 th November 2014. 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  2.45  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).  The application was launched by Hon'ble Prime Minister in July 2015. Till date, 21.59 lakh online appointments have been made in 194 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.  National  Centre  for  Geo-Informatics  (NCoG)  was launched by Hon'ble Minister of Electronics and Information Technology on December 28, 2015. So far, 85 applications across various domains are operational.
-  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 1.84 crore applications have been awarded scholarships. There are 52 registered schemes from 14 Ministries/Departments/States.
-  Promotion of Digital Payments: MeitY has taken several initiatives to promote digital payments and achieve the targets in a mission mode. Few of them are outlined below.
- (i). Digital  payment  transactions  target  have  been  assigned  to  Central  Ministries  with high  citizen  touch  points,  Public  Sector  and  Private  Sector  Banks  to  achieve  the target as announced in the Budget speech.
- (ii). Promotional materials on publicity of digital payments including IEC materials are being shared with stakeholders to create awareness and sensitization.
- (iii). Digital Payment dash board has been created to track and monitor the progress of digital transactions achieved by Banks.
- (iv). Promotion and awareness approach framework on digital payments has been shared with Banks.
- (v). BHIM  cash  back  schemes  for  merchants,  BHIM  Aadhaar  merchant  incentive schemes and BHIM referral bonus schemes for Individuals.
- (b): No proposals have been approved by the Government to States since 2014, as no Sponsored Schemes are being implemented by the Ministry since then.
- (c): Funds allocated and utilised by Ministry during each of the last four year and current year under Digital India Programme are as follows: (Rs. in crore)
- (d): Various  projects  are  being  implemented  under  the  Digital  India  programme.  These projects have their own project implementation timelines which vary across projects.
- (e): Government has various mechanism to monitor the funds allocated to the States/organizations  through  system  of  monitoring  committee  such  as  Apex  Committee, Empowered Committee, Project  Review  and  Steering  Group  (PRSG),  Review  meetings  at various  levels  etc.  and  through  Utilization  Certificate  Monitoring  System  under  public financial management system.
- (f): Not applicable as no NGO is involved in this scheme.

| Scheme/Programme   | Digital India Programme   | Digital India Programme   |
|--------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------|
| Financial Year     | Allocation                | Expenditure               |
| 2014-15            | 2355.20                   | 2272.11                   |
| 2015-16            | 1465.80                   | 1384.50                   |

| 2016-17   |   1192.55 | 1176.38                    |
|-----------|-----------|----------------------------|
| 2017-18   |   1425.63 | 1451.59                    |
| 2018-19   |   3352.81 | 2453.62 (as on 31.01.2019) |

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