Lok Sabha Question No. 238 (STARRED), answered on 2021-08-04
Subject: Digital India
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: A. Chellakumar, M. Selvaraj

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO.*238

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 04.08.2021

## DIGITAL INDIA

## *238. DR. A. CHALLAKUMAR:

## SHRI M. SELVARAJ:

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

- (a) the progress made so far in achieving the objectives envisaged under the 'Digital India' programme;
- (b) the number of companies within the country as well as abroad which have entered into an agreement with the Government under the said programme;
- (c) the investment made and the employment likely to be generated as a result thereof;
- (d) the details of funds disbursed under the programme during the financial year ending on 31 st March, 2021; and
- (e) the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  ensure  coordination  among  different  agencies involved in this programme?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) to (e): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO *238 FOR 04.08.2021 REGARDING DIGITAL INDIA

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- (a): 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 has dramatically reduced distance between Government and rural citizens significantly. Further, Digital India has also helped improve the  delivery of   services and direct  delivery  of benefits to citizens. The status of some of the key initiatives undertaken by MeitY under Digital India programme across the country is at Annexure.
- (b): Digital India is an umbrella programme that covers multiple projects of various central Ministries/Departments &  States/UTs.  Some  of  the  major  association  with  industries (including global Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and domestic companies) under Digital India initiatives are as follows:
-  Technology  Incubation  and  Development  of  Entrepreneurs  (TIDE  2.0)  Scheme: Under the scheme, financial and technical support is provided to incubators engaged in supporting ICT Startups using emerging technologies. Under the scheme, 300+ Startups have been onboarded across 51 Incubation Centres.
-  MeitY Start-up Hub (MSH): MSH is assisting incubators and Startups improving their scalability,  market  outreach,  etc.  and  has  also  established  partnerships  with  various stakeholders  paving  the  way  for  an  economy  built  on  innovation  and  technological advancement. MSH has seen a consolidation of over 2500 Startups, 400 incubators, 336 mentors and 22 state of the art Centres of Excellence (CoEs).
-  BPO Promotion Scheme: Under the BPO Promotion Schemes, 179 Indian companies have received In-Principle Approval (IPA) for setting up 255 BPO/ITES units.
-  Government  E-Marketplace(GeM): 22+  lakh  sellers  and  Services  providers  (out  of these, 7 lakh+ sellers and service providers are micro and small sellers(MSE).
-  MeghRaj: 17 empanelled private cloud service providers.
-  DigiLocker: 30 Private organisations as requestors.
-  Aadhaar: 858 Active Enrolment Agencies
-  UMANG : 8 Companies for frontend, backend, helpdesk, AI bot, Map, Service delivery, PayU and Audit services
- NASSCOM
-  Electronics Manufacturing:
- o 14 companies eligible under PLI for IT Hardware
- o 5 companies approved under PLI Scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing

-  FutureSkills Prime:

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- Unified Payment Interface: 229 Banks

(c): So  far,  an  expenditure  of  Rs.14059.79 Crore has been incurred since FY 2015-16 for various projects initiated under Digital India programme.

-  Under  Modified  Special  Incentive  Package  Scheme  (MSIPS),  306  units  with  an investment of Rs. 83,895 crore and committed incentives of Rs. 9,049 crore have been approved. Incentives amounting to Rs. 1,203.77 crore have been disbursed. Out of 306 units  approved,  237  units  have  invested  Rs.  26,799  crore  and  207  units  have  started production. Direct and indirect employment generated so far is 2,52,783.
-  Under the Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) scheme, 19 Greenfield EMCs and 3 Common Facility Centres  (CFCs)  measuring  an  area  of  3,464  acres  with  total  project cost of Rs. 3,743 crore including Government Grant-in-Aid of Rs. 1,527 crore have been approved.
-  Under BPO Promotion (IBPS and NEBPS), 252 BPO/ITES units have started operations distributed  across  more  than  100  locations  covering  27  States/UTs  providing  direct employment to over 42,000 persons.

(d):  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 Ministries/Departments and budget details are being maintained by concerned Ministries/Departments & States/UTs. The  Ministry  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology  has  made  an  expenditure  of  Rs. 3030.54 Crore in FY 2020-21 till 31 st March, 2021 for various projects/schemes under the Digital India.

(e):  Following  steps  have  been  taken  by  the  Government  to  ensure  coordination  among different agencies involved in this programme.

-  Close monitoring of various initiatives under Digital India.
-  Inter-ministerial meetings to create synergy and collaboration.
-  Regular meeting and workshops with States and UTs especially with the State/UT  IT Departments
-  Regular meetings and workshops with Industries

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## ANNEXURE

Annexure  referred  to  in  Part  (a)  of  the  Lok  Sabha  Starred  Question  No.  *238  for Answer on 04.08.2021.

The present status of some of the key initiatives undertaken by MeitY under Digital  India programme across the country is as follows:

-  Aadhaar: Aadhaar provides 12 digit biometric and demographic based identity that is unique, lifelong, online and authenticable. Further to give statutory backing to Aadhaar 'The  Aadhaar  (Targeted  Delivery  of  Financial  and  Other  Subsidies,  Benefits  and Services) Act, 2016' was notified on 26 th March 2016. Over 129.90+ crore residents have been enrolled.
-  Common Services Centre (CSC): The Common Services Centres project aims to set-up at least one CSC at 2.50 lakh Gram Panchayats(GPs) across the country, for delivery of various  Government  to  Citizen(G2C)  and  other  citizen  centric  e-Services.  It  is  a  selfsustainable entrepreneurship model which is run by Village level Entrepreneurs (VLEs). As on June, 2021, total 3,99,675 functional CSCs across the country, of which, 3,00,955 are functional at Gram Panchayat (GP) level.
-  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, more than 7.34  crore  registered  user  of  DigiLocker.  432  crore  authentic  documents  have  been issued. 1227 Issuers and 171 Requestor organizations have been on-boarded.
-  Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance (UMANG): UMANG has been developed as a single mobile platform to deliver major Government services. Currently, 1,251  services  from  257  Central/  State  Government  department/  agencies  of  32  States along with 20,280 services of BBPS Utility services have been on-boarded on UMANG.
-  e-Sign: e-Sign service facilitates instant signing of forms/documents online by citizens in a legally acceptable form. The services are being leveraged by various applications using OTP based authentication services of UIDAI. Total e-sign issued are 17.9 Crore and over 3.16 Crore e-Sign issued by CDAC.
-  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  1.85  crore  users  are registered with MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform.
-  Digital Village: MeitY has also initiated the 'Digital Village Pilot Project' in October, 2018. 700 Gram Panchayats (GPs)/Village with atleast one Gram Panchayat/Village per District  per  State/UT  are  being  covered  under  the  project.  The  digital  services  being offered are Digital Health Services, Education  Service, Financial Services, Skill Development,  Solar  panel  powered  street  lights  including  Government  to  Citizens Services (G2C), Business to Citizen (B2C) Services.
-  National Rollout of eDistrict MMP: e-District is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) that aims  at  electronic  delivery  of  identified  high  volume  citizen  centric  services  at  the
- district  or  sub-district  level.  Total  3,916  e-District  services  have  been  launched  in  709 districts across   28 States/ 6 UTs.
-  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, 508,548 resources under 10,624 catalogs published by 179 Ministries/Departments & State/UTs.
-  eHospital/ Online Registration System (ORS): e-Hospital application is the Hospital Management  Information  System  for  internal  workflows  and  processes  of  hospitals. Online Registration System (ORS) as well as e-Hospital applications are hosted at NIC's National Cloud. Currently, 624 Hospitals have been on-boarded on e-Hospital with over 20.32 crore e-Hospital transactions, and ORS has been adopted by 363 hospitals across the country with over 40.70 lakh appointments booked from ORS.
-  Jeevan  Pramaan: Digital  Life  Certificate  for  Pensioners  scheme  known  as  Jeevan Pramaan envisages to digitize the whole process of securing the life certificate. 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  4.57  Crore  Digital  Life certificates have been processed since 2014.
-  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,  598  applications  across  various  domains  are operational.
-  National  Knowledge  Network: The  Objective  of  the  NKN  is  to  inter-connect  all knowledge  institutions  across  the  country  through  high  speed  data  communication network to encourage sharing of resources and collaborative research. A high speed data communication  network  has  been  established  to  interconnect  Institution  of  higher learning,  and  research.  So  far,  1746  links  to  Institutions  have  been  commissioned  and made operational.  517  NKN  links  have  been  connected  to  NIC  district  centers  across India.
-  Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan (PMGDISHA): The Government  has  approved  a  new  scheme  titled  'Pradhan  Mantri  Gramin  Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA)' to usher in digital literacy in rural India by covering 6 Crore rural households (one person per household). So far, training has been imparted to  4.20  crore  candidates  and  out  of  this  more  than  3.10  crore  candidates  have  been certified. The scheme is applicable to all rural areas of the country.
-  Unified Payment Interface (UPI): UPI is a leading digital payment platform. It powers multiple  bank  accounts  into  a  single  mobile  application  (of  any  participating  bank), merging several banking features, seamless fund routing & merchant payments into one hood. It also caters to the 'Peer to Peer' collect request which can be scheduled and paid as per requirement and convenience. 229 Banks are providing UPI Services.
-  Future Skills  Prime: MeitY in collaboration with NASSCOM  has  initiated a programme  titled  Future  Skills  PRIME.  The  programme  is  aimed  at  re-skilling/  upskilling of IT professionals in 10 new/emerging technologies which include Augmented/Virtual Reality, Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Additive Manufacturing/ 3D Printing, Cloud Computing, Social & Mobile, Cyber Security and Blockchain.
-  National  Super  Computing  Mission  (NSM): The  National  Supercomputing  Mission was  launched  to  enhance  the  research  capacities  and  capabilities  in  the  country  by connecting  them  to  form  a  Supercomputing  grid,  with  National  Knowledge  Network (NKN) as the backbone. The NSM is setting up a grid of supercomputing facilities in
- academic  and  research  institutions  across  the  country.  The  Mission  is  being  jointly steered  by  the  Department  of  Science  and  Technology  (DST)  and  the  Ministry  of Electronics  and  Information  Technology  (MeitY)  and  implemented  by  the  Centre  for Development  of  Advanced  Computing(C-DAC),  Pune,  and  the  Indian  Institute  of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
-  Cyber  Security: Matters  relating  to  Cyber  Laws,  administration  of  the  Information Technology Act.  2000  (21  of  2000)  (IT  Act,  2000)  and  other  IT  related  laws"  comes under the purview of MeitY. While administering the parent IT Act, 2000, MeitY has the specific responsibility to ensure-better internet  governance,  data  protection,  cyber security,  privacy  over  the  Internet,  promotion  and  regulation  of  technology  companies and  promotion  of                    e-governance.  India  has  made  it  to  the top  10  in  Global Cybersecurity  Index  (GCI)  2020 launched  by  the  International  Telecommunication Union (ITU) on June 29, 2021, moving up 37 places to rank as the tenth best country in the world on key cybersafety parameters.
-  BPO Promotion Scheme: The  India  BPO  Promotion  Scheme  (IBPS)  and  North  East BPO  Promotion  Scheme  (NEBPS)  were  initiated  under  Digital  India  Programme  to create employment opportunities for the youth of the country by setting up BPO/ITES operation  in  smaller  cities  across  the  country  and  North  Eastern  Region.  The  BPO Promotion Schemes aimed at incentivising establishment of total 53,300 seats in respect for  BPO/ITES  operation  across  the  country.  Overall,  61,208  seats  were  allocated  to eligible entities to setup BPO/ITES operation under these schemes.
-  Electronics Manufacturing
- o Modified  Special  Incentive  Package  (M-SIPS):  As  on  June,  2021,  306  applications with proposed investment of approximately Rs. 83,895 crore have been approved.
- o Electronic Manufacturing Clusters (EMC): Under EMC scheme, 20 Greenfield EMCs and          3  Common  Facility  Centres  (CFCs)  measuring  an  area  of  3565  acres  with project cost of     Rs. 3898 crore including Government Grant-in-aid of Rs. 1577 crore have been approved in 15 states across the country. Modified Electronics Manufacturing  Clusters  (EMC  2.0)  Scheme  notified  on  1 st April,  2020  for  further strengthening  the  infrastructure  base  for  electronics  industry  in  the  country  and deepening the electronics value chain.

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