Lok Sabha Question No. 2915 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-15
Subject: India Enterprise Architecture
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Dr. T. Sumathy (a) Thamizhachi Thangapandian

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2915

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 15.12.2021

## INDIA ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

## 2915. DR. T. SUMATHY (a) THAMIZHACHI THANGAPANDIAN:

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

- (a) the details of the criteria have been used by the Ministry of Information and Technology for declaring India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) as an e-Governance standard;
- (b) the State-wise and year-wise details of the purpose that India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) has served till now;
- (c) whether the India Enterprise Architecture links the database and other information of citizens with their Aadhaar cards and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the  details  of  the  measures  taken  by  India  Enterprise  Architecture  (IndEA)  including  for marginalised  groups  that  have  been  denied  access  to  basic  amenities  in  the  e-governance mode?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a): Under  the  project  titled  'National  Centre  for  e-Governance  Standards  &  Technology (NeST)'  implemented  by  the Standardization Testing and Quality Certification  (STQC) Directorate, an attached office of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), a  Working  Group  on  Enterprise  Architecture  (EA)  was  formed  with  participation  of  other Ministries/States,  academia,  Research  &  Development  (R&D)  organizations  and  industry  in October, 2016.

The Working Group submitted a draft report on India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) Framework and  Adoption  Guide,  which  was  circulated  to  Ministries/States  for  providing  feedback  and subsequently, the report was also published on the NeST website for public feedback by STQC. Thereafter,  the  draft  was  circulated  to  the  members  of  the  Apex  Body,  constituted  under  the chairmanship of Secretary, MeitY for their suggestions and approval. After following the above criteria, MeitY has notified IndEA Framework and Adoption Guide on October 09, 2018.

(b): A project was initiated by MeitY in March, 2019 for pilot implementation of IndEA by National e-Governance Division (NeGD) wherein one State (Meghalaya) was formally selected.

Year-wise details of the purpose that IndEA has served in the State of Meghalaya are given as under:

- As per announcement made by Hon'ble Minister of Electronics and Information Technology (IT) during the launch of the North East Vision document in August, 2018, Meghalaya was selected  as  the  first  pilot  State  for  preparation  of  State  Wide  Enterprise  Architecture  and implementation of segment architecture for Finance Department.
- Under the project, the State held 39 awareness and sensitization workshops, floated 'Request for  Proposal  (RFP)'  for  developing  in-house  capacities  of  EA  experts,  preparing  vision, requirements, solution architecture for Finance & detailed blueprint artefacts, and initiated the implementation of Phase I of segment architecture for Finance Department in 2019.
- It has helped in faster and seamless sanctions and disbursement of funds to the Departments, reducing the turn-around time from 6 months to 15 days.
- The  first  phase  of  Application  Programming  Interface  (API)  integrations  among  budget estimates, allocation system, e-Billing, centralized treasury MIS, single sign on, pensions and integrated platform of the State was launched on September 17, 2021 by the Hon'ble Union Minister of Electronics and IT and Hon'ble Chief Minister of Meghalaya jointly.
- (c)  and (d): No, Madam, the primary purpose of IndEA is to help Ministries/Departments/States at various levels to adopt a structured approach for developing their enterprise solutions.

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