Lok Sabha Question No. 1005 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-07-26
Subject: CSC E-Governance
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Sunil Kumar Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1005

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 26.07.2023

## CSC E-GOVERNANCE

## 1005. SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

Will  the  MINISTER  OF  ELECTRONICS  AND  INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY  be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the work of 7th Economic Census was executed through CSC e-Governance services India Limited and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the amount paid to CSC by the Central Government for this work;
- (c)  whether  the  Government  is  aware  of  the  number  of  supervisors/VLEs/Vendors  by whom  the  work  of  7th  Economic  Census  was  executed  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof, State/UT-wise including the amount paid to the supervisors for the said work;
- (d)  whether  any  payment  to  the  supervisors  is  still  outstanding  and  if  so,  the  reasons therefor;  (e)  whether  VLEs/District  Manager  of  CSC  have  already  withdrawn  lakhs  of rupees  from  the  payment  made  in  their  accounts  for  executing  the  works  of  the  7th Economic Census in the year 2021 while no payment has been made to the supervisors performing that task till now; and
- (f) if so, the details thereof and the steps being taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) and (b): Ministry of Statistics and Programnme Implementation (MoSPI) apprised that the work of 7 th Economic Census (EC) was assigned to CSC e-Governance Service India Limited (CSC SPV) by MoSPI, which is essentially a service level contract. The copy of the work order dated 26.03.2019 is available at weblink: https://workdrive.zohopublic.in/external/54730395cc31c1e345e07b7dc33cb13af8c868aad5 aada58292c4bae56e7797e. As per the work order, the MoSPI has approved award of the work of 7 th Economic Census to CSC SPV at an estimated cost of Rs. 840.423114 crore (plus  taxes  as  applicable),  the  work  includes  development  of  IT  solution,  deployment  of technical  support  group,  training,  awareness/sensitization,  data  collection  etc.  Till  date MoSPI has released an amount of Rs. 667.28crore to CSC SPV for conducting 7 th Economic Census work.
- (c): CSC SPV has clarified that it has engaged around 1.70 lakh supervisors, 144 vendors, and more than 9.50 lakh  enumerators for conducting the 7th  Economic  Census.  As per provisional data, a sum of Rs 516.99 crore has been paid to the supervisors and vendors till 15 July, 2023. The State/UT-wise status of supervisors/enumerators/vendors as well as payment made to them is available at weblink: https://workdrive.zohopublic.in/external/f0e14867edf14bdf30514df73bdbe44e5b883feba7 76dace2c85bab045c10258

(d): CSC SPV apprised that a sum of Rs 50.63684crore is outstanding as on 15.07.2023, to be paid to supervisors/vendors and CSC SPV clarified the following reasons for the same

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- i. Approval of provisional survey results undertaken by Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) in 16 States and 6 UTs, is awaited;
- ii. The State Level Coordination Committee (SLCC) approved the provisional survey results of 11 States and 2 UTs which is yet to be published.
- iii. CSC SPV raised a bill of  provisional  expenditure  of  Rs.  772.5247  crore  for  the activities  completed  under  the  project  '7 th Economic  Census',  however,  MoSPI has  released  Rs.  667.28  crore  and  amount  of  Rs.  105.2548  crore  is  yet  to  be released.

In this regard, MoSPI has apprised that MoSPI released the payment to CSC SPV as per the payment milestones, subject to penalties for deficiencies in services provided by CSC as per the service level agreement. The non- release of balance payment to CSC is due to non-fulfillment  of  last  milestone  of  deliverables  (i.e.  release  of  7 th Economic  Census national result). Several States/UTs have not approved their provisional results on account of  data  quality  issues  in  the  7 th Economic  Census  data  that  has  been  collected  and supervise by CSC SPV.

(e) and (f): CSC SPV apprised payment of enumeration commission has been released to the supervisors and vendors who conducted the 7th Economic Census work.

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