Lok Sabha Question No. 4486 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-30
Subject: Digital India Programme in the Country
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Sunil Kumar Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## RAJYA SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4486

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 30.03.2022

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME IN THE COUNTRY

## 4486. SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

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

- (a) whether the Government is aware that the Digital India Programme is delivering good governance to the common citizens in the country and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the details of the steps taken by the Government to ensure coordination among different agencies involved in the aforesaid programme;
- (c) the  details  of  the  Information  Technology  (IT)  Support  provided  toAtmaNirbhar  Bharat Abhiyan; and
- (d) the details of the contribution of Digital India in tackling COVID-19?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR)

(a): Yes, Sir. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India launched 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. In summary, our mission is to ensure that the digital technologies improve the life of every citizen; expand India's digital economy, create investment  &  employment  opportunities  and  global  digital  technological  capabilities  in  the country.

Digital India has dramatically reduced distance between Government and citizens significantly. Further,  Digital  India  has  also  helped  in  delivery  of  substantial  services  directly  to  the beneficiary  in  a  transparent  and  corruption  free  manner.  The  rollout  of  various  e-Governance initiatives under Digital India programme has led to delivery of 4020+ services as on February, 2022.  The  eGovernance  applications  for  Pradhan  Mantri  Jan-DhanYojana,  Subsidy  delivery schemes,  Unified  Payments  Interface  (UPI),  Bharat  Interface  for  Money  (BHIM),  Passport, Income  Tax, Road  Transport, MCA21,  Agriculture, e-District, e-Courts, Land  Records, Treasuries,  Public  Distribution  System(PDS), etc showcased the transformational capability of ICT and improved the service delivery significantly.

(b):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 IT Depts.
-  Departments Regular meetings and workshops with Industries

(c):Government of  India  has  implemented  National  Public  Digital  Platforms  in  strategic  areas through  indigenous  means,  which  is  making  the  country  self-reliant  under  the  initiative  of AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. Few of these platforms are described as below:

-  Unified Payment Interface (UPI) is  the  leading digital payment platform. It is integrated with 304 banks and facilitated over 452 crore monthly transactions worth Rs 8.26 lakh crore in February 2022.
-  DigiLocker is the paperless platform. It has more than 10 crore users. and it is offering 494 crore documents from 1,783 issuer organisations.
-  Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance (UMANG) is made operational to provide government services through a single mobile app. At present, 1,488 services from 279  departments  of  Central  Government  departments  and  Government  departments  of  32 States/UTs along with the 20,552 - Bharat Bill Payment Services (BBPS) utility services are available on UMANG. About 4.3 crore users are registered with UMANG and they have availed  2.4  crore  transactions.  The  language  localisation  support  has  been  extended  to  23 Indian languages.
-  API  Setu has  been  implemented  to  facilitate  data  exchange  among  the  systems  and databases.  As  28  Feb  2022 , 1447  APIs;  641  Publisher  organization  and  235  Consumer organizations are on API Setu Platform. Over 15.04 crore transactions have been reported in FY 2021-2022 on API Setu Platform.
-  Government e-Marketplace is the public procurement platform. As on March 24, 2022, it has facilitated 59,296 buyer organisations, 40 lakh sellers, 96.6 lakh orders worth Rs 2.19 lakh crore.

Further,  National  Informatics  Centre  (NIC),  an  attached  office  of  Ministry  of  Electronics  & Information  Technology  (MeitY),  has  started  working  towards  development  of  indigenous products  such  as  SANDES  (Government  Instant  Messaging  System),  LokSamvaad  (A  Micro blogging Platform), TEJAS (A Data Analytics Platform), CollabFiles (A Web-based platform to provide a Suite of Office Services), etc.

(d):Digital India has played a significant role in our country's response to the globally disruptive Covid-19 Pandemic.

It  has played a role in the healthcare & vaccination efforts on one hand and on the other hand ensured that our economy & Govt. keeps functioning and bounced back strongly post lockdown in the first quarter due to remote working, capabilities, platforms etc.  Some of the key platforms are as follows:

-  AarogyaSetu  App: The  App  works  based  on  contact  tracing  method  and  helps  the Government in identifying, monitoring and mitigating the spread of COVID-19 across the country. The App also augments the COVID-19 initiatives of the Government in proactively reaching  out  to  and  informing  the  users  of  the  app  regarding  risks,  best  practices  and relevant advisories pertaining to the containment of COVID-19.
-  Co-WIN: It is a platform for the citizens of India to register for COVID-19 vaccination and schedule their vaccination slots at the nearest vaccination centers.
-  RT-PCR  Mobile  App :  A  Covid-19  Sample  Collection  Management  System  used  by collection  Centre  technicians  to  enter  details  of  the  samples  being  collected  for  Covid-19 RT-PCR test.
-  eHospital/  Online  Registration  System  (ORS): e-Hospital  is  a  cloud-based  Hospital Management information system that acts as one-stop solution to bring hospitals, patients and doctors on single platform.
-  eSanjeevani: eSanjeevani  is  indigenously  developed  telemedicine  solution  with  in-built video conferencing & wireless import of test results & physiological parameters.