Lok Sabha Question No. 41 (STARRED), answered on 2021-12-01
Subject: PMGDISHA
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Dr. T. Sumathy (a) Thamizhachi Thangapandian

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION No. *41

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 01.12.2021

## PMGDISHA

## *41.    DR. T. SUMATHY (a) THAMIZHACHI THANGAPANDIAN:

Will the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology be pleased to state:

- (a) the State-wise details of rural households that have been covered under Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan (PMGDISHA) out of the six crore rural households;
- (b) whether marginalised sections of the society including Scheduled Castes (SCs)/ Scheduled  Tribes  (STs),  women,  differently-abled  persons,  etc.  have  been enrolled and certified and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether  the  Standing  Committee  on    Information  Technology  emphasised  the need to scale up and also  conduct quality impact assessments of PMGDISHA and other digital literacy programmes; and
- (d) if so, the action taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

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

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

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA  STARRED QUESTION NO *41 FOR 01.12.2021 REGARDING  'PMGDISHA' *******

- (a):  The State-wise details of numbers of rural households/beneficiaries that have been covered under the PMGDISHA Scheme are at Annexure .
- (b):  As stipulated in scheme guidelines, preference is given to marginalized sections of the society including Scheduled Castes (SC)/ Scheduled Tribes (ST), women, differentlyabled persons.  The category-wise status of these beneficiaries as on 24.11.2021, is given below:
- (c)  and  (d):    Yes,  Sir.    In  line  with  the  recommendations,  the  training  under  the PMGDISHA scheme was scaled up and as on date, a total of 5.36 Crore candidates have been  enrolled  under  the  PMGDISHA  Scheme,  out  of  this,  4.54  Crore  candidates  have been trained and 3.37 Crore candidates have been duly certified.

| Category          | Enrolled    | Trained     | Certified   |
|-------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| SC                | 1,03,97,563 | 89,22,690   | 67,88,527   |
| ST                | 48,69,800   | 40,70,145   | 29,26,211   |
| Women             | 2,80,38,385 | 2,42,22,349 | 1,85,71,710 |
| Differently-abled | 9,65,209    | 8,20,350    | 5,86,291    |

So far, three impact assessment studies of the Scheme have been carried out. First impact assessment study was carried out by Council for Social Development (CSD) in 2017-18.

The second impact assessment study was conducted by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)  -  Delhi  in  the  year  2019.  The  last  impact  assessment  study  of  the  scheme  was carried out by Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) in FY 2020-21. The aim of the study was to analyse the ground level situation of the scheme, with a larger aspect of continuation of the scheme beyond the 12 th plan  period.  IIPA,  after  the  comprehensive and methodological evaluation of scheme, concluded in the report that PMGDISHA as a digital literacy programme plays an indispensable part in not only bridging the digital gap in  the  country  but  also  transforming  it  into  a  knowledge  economy  and  society.  IIPA recommended the continuation of PMGDISHA Scheme.

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Annexure State-wise Status of PMGDISHA scheme as on 24.11.2021

|   S.N. | State                    | Registered   | Trained   | Certified   |
|--------|--------------------------|--------------|-----------|-------------|
|      1 | Andaman &Nicobar Islands | 308          | 109       | 51          |
|      2 | Andhra Pradesh           | 12,08,652    | 9,25,992  | 6,55,757    |
|      3 | Arunachal Pradesh        | 3,399        | 1,279     | 879         |
|      4 | Assam                    | 25,44,707    | 22,17,593 | 17,77,130   |
|      5 | Bihar                    | 57,13,248    | 50,05,225 | 36,52,652   |
|      6 | Chandigarh*              | -            | -         | -           |
|      7 | Chhattisgarh             | 24,98,702    | 21,54,259 | 16,29,617   |
|      8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli   | 1,644        | 730       | 446         |
|      9 | Daman and Diu            | 1,451        | 713       | 446         |
|     10 | Delhi*                   | 2,016        | 1,362     | 898         |
|     11 | Goa                      | 4,622        | 3,167     | 2,310       |
|     12 | Gujarat                  | 23,81,934    | 20,66,529 | 15,17,712   |
|     13 | Haryana                  | 17,18,241    | 14,54,522 | 10,95,505   |
|     14 | Himachal Pradesh         | 3,52,195     | 2,57,688  | 1,84,208    |
|     15 | Jammu And Kashmir        | 4,51,184     | 3,39,307  | 2,49,198    |
|     16 | Jharkhand                | 20,87,595    | 16,69,668 | 12,13,153   |
|     17 | Karnataka                | 9,84,704     | 7,40,234  | 4,79,458    |
|     18 | Kerala                   | 50,042       | 24,388    | 19,500      |
|     19 | Ladakh                   | 17,179       | 13,279    | 9,415       |
|     20 | Lakshadweep              | 93           | 35        | -           |

| 21    | Madhya Pradesh   | 45,27,611   | 39,30,382   | 28,81,367   |
|-------|------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| 22    | Maharashtra      | 34,56,906   | 28,43,852   | 20,55,450   |
| 23    | Manipur          | 10,239      | 5,858       | 3,691       |
| 24    | Meghalaya        | 1,11,714    | 80,594      | 53,878      |
| 25    | Mizoram          | 9,163       | 6,590       | 3,881       |
| 26    | Nagaland         | 5,597       | 4,011       | 2,872       |
| 27    | Odisha           | 27,10,255   | 22,28,217   | 16,90,468   |
| 28    | Puducherry       | 13,583      | 9,639       | 6,135       |
| 29    | Punjab           | 14,66,116   | 12,54,512   | 9,65,744    |
| 30    | Rajasthan        | 28,54,559   | 23,47,639   | 17,10,816   |
| 31    | Sikkim           | 3,551       | 1,521       | 717         |
| 32    | Tamil Nadu       | 10,07,652   | 8,07,999    | 5,78,353    |
| 33    | Telangana        | 7,19,040    | 5,59,271    | 3,91,725    |
| 34    | Tripura          | 2,46,878    | 1,83,870    | 1,45,314    |
| 35    | Uttarakhand      | 6,04,920    | 4,97,894    | 3,69,399    |
| 36    | Uttar Pradesh    | 1,40,04,199 | 1,22,81,000 | 92,36,198   |
| 37    | West Bengal      | 18,73,588   | 15,19,964   | 11,77,616   |
| Total | Total            | 5,36,47,487 | 4,54,38,892 | 3,37,61,959 |

*Chandigarh  and  Delhi  are  in  Urban  agglomeration,  hence  not  covered  under  the Scheme.

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