Lok Sabha Question No. 1472 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-02-10
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Vijay Kumar Dubey, Rebati Tripura

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1472

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 10.02.2021

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 1472. SHRI VIJAY KUMAR DUBEY: SHRI REBATI TRIPURA:

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

- (a). the  present  status  of  Digital  India  Programme  along  with  the  success  achieved  by  the Government against the target set thereunder and the funds allocated by the Government in this regard, State/UT-wise including UP and NER;
- (b). whether  the  Government  has  conducted  any  study  to  assess  the  role  played  by Governments' Digital Initiative in empowerment of people and if so, the details and the outcome thereof;
- (c). whether the Government has conducted any study to measure the extent of adoption of digital technologies by the rural masses in the State of Uttar Pradesh and NER and if so, the details and the outcome thereof; and
- (d). the increase in digital penetration and usage of e-Government tools in the last three years in the State of Uttar Pradesh and NER, State/UT,-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI SANJAY DHOTRE)

(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. Several schemes/projects are being implemented under Digital India programme for providing e-services to all the citizens across  the  country.  The  present  status  of  some  of  the  key  initiatives  undertaken  by  MeitY under Digital India programme 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 128+ crore residents have been enrolled.
-  Common  Services  Centre (CSC): The Common  Services Centres are service (Government  to  Citizen  &  Business  to  Citizen)  delivery  centres.  So  far,  3.73  Lakh Common Services Centres are functional including 2.78 lakh CSCs at Gram Panchayat levels.
-  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.
-  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, 5.5 crore registered  user  of  DigiLocker.  426  crore  authentic  documents  have  been  issued.  872 Issuers and 148 Requestor organizations have been on-boarded.
-  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  3,870  e-District  services  have  been  launched  in  705 districts across 33 States/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, 472,848 resources under 9,856 catalogs published by 175 Ministries/Departments & State/UTs.
-  eHospital/  Online  Registration  System(ORS): 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).  Till date, 36.56 lakh online appointments have been made in 260 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.  So  far,  516  applications  across  various  domains  are operational.
-  Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance (UMANG): UMANG has been developed  as  a  single  mobile  platform  to  deliver  major  Government  services.  About 20525  services  from  219  departments(Central  &  States)  are  already  available  on UMANG platform.
-  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  1.51  crore  users  are registered with MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform.
-  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. These would cover about 1500 Institutions comprising of all Universities, Institutions of Higher Learning, and  Research.  A  high  speed  data  communication  network  has  been  established  to interconnect Institution of higher learning, and research.1747 links to Institutions have been commissioned and made operational. 516 NKN links have been connected to NIC district centers across India. Rs. 4,450.10 cr have been released.
-  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  4.46  Crore  Digital  Life certificates have been processed since 2014.
-  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,  more  than  4.22  crore candidates have been enrolled under PMGDISHA. Training has been imparted to 3.44 crore candidates and out of this more than 2.51 crore candidates have been certified.
-  BharatNet: BharatNet  is  an  ambitious  initiative  to  trigger  a  broadband  revolution  in rural  areas.  This  project  is  being  implemented  by  Department  of  Telecommunications. BharatNet aims to connect all the 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats in the country and provide 100 Mbps connectivity to all gram panchayats (GPs). So far, a total number of 1,51,431 Gram Panchayats (Including Block HQ) have been made Service Ready.

##  Electronics Manufacturing

-  Modified  Special  Incentive  Package  (M-SIPS):  As  on  5 th February,  2021,  294 applications with proposed investment of approximately Rs. 81,085 crore have been approved;  17  applications  with  proposed  investments  of  approximately  Rs.  94,459 crore have been recommended by the Appraisal Committee for approval.
-  Electronic Manufacturing Clusters (EMC): Under Electronic Manufacturing Clusters (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 in 15 states across the  country.  227  companies  engaged  in  various  electronics  segments  have  booked space  for  setting  up  of  their  manufacturing  facilities  in  these  EMCs  with  projected investment of Rs. 35,641 crore. Out of which, 33 companies started production and about 70 companies have also commenced their construction activity and are various stage of implementation.

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 Ministry/departments and budget  details  are  being  maintained  by  concerned  Ministries/Departments  &  States/UTs. However, budget allocated and utilised by MeitY under Digital India programme during last four years is as follows:

| Financial Year   |   Budget allocated (Rs. in Cr.) | Actual Expenditure (Rs. in Cr.)   |
|------------------|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
| 2017-18          |                         1425.63 | 1451.59                           |
| 2018-19          |                         3352.81 | 3328.54                           |
| 2019-20          |                         3212.52 | 3191.09                           |
| 2020-21          |                         3044.82 | 1724.47 (as on 31.01.2021)        |

(b): MeitY has conducted third party  evaluation  for  Electronic  Governance  scheme  under Digital  India  Programme'.  The  study  was  initiated  in  January  2020  by  the  Centre  for Innovations in Public Systems (CIPS), Hyderabad, Telangana and submitted final report in October, 2020. Driven through technology, e-Governance is transforming citizen services by providing access to information, integrating various systems and services between government and citizens, thereby empowering and enhancing citizen's social, environmental and economic values. Following are the key findings of the study with  respect to availing services online:

-  Eighty-Eight  percent  of  the  sample  beneficiaries  (accessed  any  e-service)  of  the  study indicated that the cost associated with availing services online has significantly reduced compared  to  the  manual  system.  This  implies  a  reduction  in  the  costs  related  to  the number of trips made, out-of-pocket expense per trip, abolition of intermediaries etc.
-  Ninety-Two  percent  of  the  sample  beneficiaries  of  the  study  indicated  that  ease  of accessing  services  online  has  significantly  improved.  This  may  be  attributed  to  the availability of wider range of service delivery channels (mobile, portal, kiosks etc.) and extended hours of availability of service at these channels.

(c)  and  (d):  The  Ministry  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology  has  not  made  any formal assessment to measure the extent of adoption of digital technologies in the state of Uttar  Pradesh  and  NER.    However,  the  statistics  of  e-transactions  on  e-Taal  platform ( https://etaal.gov.in/ )  gives  an  indication  of  increase  in  digital  penetration  and  usage  of  eGovernment tools in India. More than 622 crore e-transactions have been recorded for 3,949 services during the year 2020. Number of e-transactions during the last 3 years in the State of Uttar Pradesh and NER is as follows.

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| States            |   Number of e-Transactions (in Crore) |   Number of e-Transactions (in Crore) |   Number of e-Transactions (in Crore) |
|-------------------|---------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|                   |                               2018    |                               2019    |                               2020    |
| Uttar Pradesh     |                                 34.68 |                                 39.91 |                                 38.39 |
| Arunachal Pradesh |                                  0.35 |                                  0.41 |                                  0.4  |
| Assam             |                                  3.76 |                                  6.27 |                                  4.51 |
| Manipur           |                                  0.23 |                                  0.27 |                                  0.26 |
| Meghalaya         |                                  0.39 |                                  0.3  |                                  0.27 |
| Mizoram           |                                  0.21 |                                  0.2  |                                  0.25 |
| Nagaland          |                                  0.23 |                                  0.26 |                                  0.29 |
| Sikkim            |                                  0.09 |                                  0.11 |                                  0.1  |
| Tripura           |                                  0.36 |                                  0.6  |                                  0.49 |