Lok Sabha Question No. 1487 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-28
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Omprakash Bhupalsinh alias Pawan Rajenimbalkar, Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1487

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 28.07.2021

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 1487    SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH alias PAWAN RAJENIMBALKAR: SHRI SANJAY JADHAV:

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

- (a)   the extent status of Digital India programme across the country;
- (b)  whether the Government has any schemes or projects to increase communication in rural area villages through information and service centres;
- (c)   if so, the details thereof, particularly in regard to Maharashtra;
- (d)   whether the Government has taken any decision to provide the said service centres to NGOs functioning in such areas and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e)   the manner in which the said program has affected the rural areas?

## ANSWER

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

(a): As per Annexure-I.

(b): Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is implementing the Common Services Centre (CSC) programme under pillar-3 of Digital India Program. The programme aims to set-up at-least one CSC at 2.50 lakh Gram Panchayats (GPs) across the country, for delivery of various Government-to-Citizens  (G2C)  and  other  citizen-centric  e-Services  to  citizens.  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.

(c): In Maharashtra, total 43,198 CSCs are functional, of which, 32,179 are functional at Gram Panchayat (GP)/village level.

(d):  Any  individual/citizen  having  capacity  of  establishing  a  centre  along  with  necessary  ICT infrastructure to deliver services to citizen within the locality can apply online for registration as Village Level Entrepreneur (VLE) and become a VLE.

(e):  Digital  India  has  dramatically  reduced  distance  between  Government  and  rural  citizen significantly. Further, Digital India has also helped delivery of substantial services to rural India with no leakage & directly. Digitisation and technology have facilitated key functional domain in rural  India,  including  e-governance  services,  banking  and  financial  services,  educational  and healthcare services, mobile/DTH recharge, e-ticketing services, online shopping, etc., through its common service  centres  run  by  Village  Level  Entrepreneurs  (VLEs)  at  the  village  and  Gram Panchayat (GP) level.

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## Annexure-I

- (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. The Digital India programme is centred on three key vision areas, namely Digital Infrastructure as a Core Utility to Every Citizen, Governance and  Services  on  Demand  and  Digital  Empowerment  of  Citizens.  Digital  India  is  an  umbrella programme that covers multiple projects of various central Ministries/Departments & States/UTs. Some of the key initiatives undertaken by MeitY under the Digital India programme across the country are 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 are service (Government to  Citizen  &  Business  to  Citizen)  delivery  centres.  So  far,  3.99  Lakh  Common  Services Centres are functional including 3.00 lakh CSCs at Gram Panchayat level.
- Digital Village: MeitY has also initiated the 'Digital Village Pilot Project' in October, 2018. 700 Gram Panchayats (GPs)/Villages 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  various  Government to Citizen 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.  Currently, there are more than 6.7 crore registered users of Digi Locker and  432 crore authentic documents have been issued. 1227 Issuers and 171 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 subdistrict 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 perspectives. Currently, 508,548 resources under 10,624 catalogs have been published by 179 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,  40.55  lakh  online  appointments  have  been  made  in  367+  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, 598 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 21,531 services from 257 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  1.85  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. A high speed data communication network has been established to interconnect institutions 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.
- 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.
- Pradhan  Mantri  Gramin  Digital  SakshartaAbhiyaan(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 4.16+ crore candidates and out of this more than 3.07+ crore candidates have been certified. The scheme is applicable to all rural areas of the country.

## · Electronics Manufacturing

- o Modified  Special  Incentive  Package  (M-SIPS):  As  on  June  2021,  306  applications  with proposed investment of approximately Rs. 81,895 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 3,565 acres with project cost of Rs. 3,898 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 has  been  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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