Lok Sabha Question No. 3705 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-11
Subject: e-Governance
Ministry: PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
Asked by: Parvesh Sahib Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS

## (DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS & PUBLIC GRIEVANCES)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3705

(TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.12.2019)

## e-GOVERNANCE

## 3705. SHRI PARVESH SAHIB SINGH VERMA:

Will the PRIME MINISTER be pleased to state:

- (a) the steps taken by the Government through reforms, policies and schemes to promote egovernance in India;
- (b) the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  through  reforms,  policies  and  schemes  to  promote transparency and accountability in India; and
- (c) the  steps  being  taken  by  the  Government  with  regard  to  the  implementation  of recommendations  of  2nd  Administrative  Reforms  Commission  and  other  initiatives  to deal with corruption in India?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

(a) to (c):  The Government of India under its 'Digital India' programme initiated a number of reforms,  policies  and  schemes  to  promote  e-Governance.  Under  the  National  e-Governance Action Plan (NeGP) which is now subsumed under Digital India programme, core infrastructure components such as State Data Centres (SDCs), State Wide Area Networks (SWANs), Common Services Centres (CSCs), State e-Governance Service Delivery Gateway (SSDGs), e-District and Capacity Building are being implemented.

To improve the effectiveness of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), Government has initiated 'e-Kranti' with the vision to ensure delivery of all  Government  services electronically to citizens through integrated and interoperable systems via multiple modes, while ensuring efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs.

A large number of initiatives have been undertaken by the Government for promotion of pervasion of digital technology application across the country. Under Pillar 5: e-Kranti, a total of 44 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) are implemented.These MMPs are providing services in the  areas  such  as  education,  healthcare,  agriculture,  justice,  land  records,  social  benefits,  local governments,  rural  development,  women  &  child  development,  legislature,  local  language, transport, financial services, Income  Tax  (IT),  Passport,  Posts,  etc.  Other  e-Governance initiatives  are  M-Kisan  Portal,  Kisan  Call  Centres,  Kisan  Suvidha  Mobile  App,  e-National Agriculture  Market  (e-NAM),  etc. Government  has  also  taken  new  measures  which  include

Aadhaar, Common  Services Centres 2.0 (CSC  2.0), GeM,  Digital Locker System, eHospital/Online  Registration  System  (ORS),  Open  Govt.  Data  Platform,  Unified  Mobile Application for New-Age Governance (UMANG), E-Office, eSign - Online Electronic Signature Service, National  Scholarships  Portal  (NSP),  Jeevan  Pramaan,  National  Centre  of  Geoinformatics  (NCoG),  e-Samiksha,  Direct  Benefit  Transfer  (DBT)  payment,  e-Payments,  Legal Information  Management  Based  System  (LIMBS),  Online  application  system  for  notaries, Discontinuation of Interview in recruitment of Junior Level Posts, CPGRAMS Reforms, Laws to prohibit  Benami  transactions,  Compulsory  retirement  of  Government  servant  over  lack  of integrity,

The Second Administrative Reforms Commission made 134 recommendations in its 4 th Report 'Ethics in Governance' to promote ethics and minimize scope for corruption in public dealings,  out  of  which  79  recommendations  have  been  accepted  by  the  Government  and conveyed  to  concerned  Central  Ministries/Departments  and  State/UTs  for  taking  necessary action for their implementation.

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