Lok Sabha Question No. 2872 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-08-03
Subject: Digital India
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: SANGANNA AMARAPPA KARADI, E. T. MOHAMMED BASHEER, KINJARAPU RAM MOHAN NAIDU, MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAI VASAVA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2872

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 03.08.2016

## DIGITAL  INDIA

## 2872         SHRI  SANGANNA  AMARAPPA:

SHRI E.T.  MOHAMMED  BASHEER:

SHRI  RAM  MOHAN  NAIDU  KINJARAPU:

SHRI MANSUKHBHAI  DHANJIBHAI  VASAVA:

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

- (a) the present status of Digital India Programme along with the success achieved against the target set and the funds allocated to States under the programme so far, State-wise;
- (b) the details of companies and individuals registered/been a part of Digital India Campaign; and
- (c) whether the Government has identified new areas which require immediate digital initiative;
- (d) if so, the details thereof and the fresh initiative taken by the Government in this regard;
- (e) the scheme/works undertaken under Digital India Programme at district level and the details of districts in which the schemes has been launched and implemented, State-wise including Gujarat; and
- (f) the steps taken by the Government to make all districts in the country as digital districts and the time frame fixed for the same?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI P.P. CHAUDHARY)

(a): The present status of Digital India Programme along with the success achieved against the target set is as follows:

## Pillar 1: Broadband Highways

-  Under National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project, optical fibre has reached to 53,557 Gram Panchayats against the envisaged target of 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats.

## Pillar 2: Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity

-  Mobile connectivity to be provided to 55,669 uncovered villages
-  Tender has been floated for 11,621 North Eastern villages.

## Pillar 3: Public Internet Access Programme

-  1.23 lakh Common Services Centres have been set up at Gram Panchayats level under CSC 2.0 scheme the envisaged target of 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats.
-  22,137 Post Offices for Core Banking Solution (CBS) and 25,406 Post Offices for Core Insurance Solution (CIS) have been migrated. ATM services are installed in 759 Post Offices.
-  Aadhaar seeding in PDS (55.7%), NREGA(61.9%), Scholarship(37%), Election Commission Database(38%), PAHAL (75.6%), NSAP (31.9%) completed
-  Number of user Departments for e-Office is 171.

## Pillar 4: E-Governance : Reforming government through Technology

## Pillar 5: eKranti- Electronic delivery of services

-  The Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) has been increased from 31 MMPs to 44 MMPs under e-Kranti. 29 MMPs have been implemented.
-  The MMPs of e-Kranti have been delivering more than 62 crore e-Transactions per month.

## Pillar 6: Information for All

-  MyGov platform, a medium to seek ideas/ suggestions from Citizen, has been implemented. 49 Groups, 489 Tasks, 589 Discussion Themes, 221 Blogs are operational on MyGov. 35.1 lakh registered users. 1.81 lakh contributions for 464 tasks. 33.9 lakh comments for 584 discussions. Weekly newsletters are being sent to more than 18.5 lakh registered users.
-  Open  Government  Data  platform  has  been  implemented  which  exposes  government  data  to  citizens. Currently 27,337 datasets from 111 Departments are available and 29.2 lakhs downloaded.

## Pillar 7: Electronics Manufacturing - Target NET ZERO Imports

-  199  Investment  proposals  under  Modified  Specific  Incentive  Programmes  (MSIPs)  having  a  proposed investment of Rs. 1.22 lakh crores have been so far received.
-  7  Greenfield  Electronics  Manufacturing  Clusters  (EMCs)  and  1  Common  Facility  Centre  (CFC)  in Brownfield have been approved.
-  Electronic Development Fund has been launched and 11 venture funds involving Rs. 490.00 crore have been approved.

## Pillar 8: IT for Jobs

-  48,300  seats  have  been  approved  under  India  BPO  scheme  and  over  5000  seats  have  been  approved  for BPOs in North East. 300 seats at Guwahati, Shillong and Itanagar have been allotted.
-  Around 72.92 lakh candidates have been trained and more than 33.15 lakh candidates have been certified so far under Digital Literacy Program (Digital Saksharta Abhiyan)

## Pillar 9: Early Harvest Programme

-  Secure email within government project has been implemented for 10 lakh employees in Phase I.
-  SMS based weather information and disaster alerts have been made operational.
-  Over 20.26 lakh residents have created their accounts on Digital Locker. More than 24.77 lakh documents have been uploaded on it.
-  More than 9.45 lakh Life Certificates have been processed through Jeevan Pramaan portal.
-  Online  Registration  System  (ORS)  has  been  made  operational  in  43  hospitals  and  28.60  lakh  online appointments have been provided so far.
-  Since  15 th August  2014,  mailers  have  been  sent  on  239  campaigns  through  SAMPARK  (IT  platform  for messages) to 1.1 crore emails and 14 crore Mobile nos.
-  The Government e-Greetings have been sent to more than 20 lakh citizens directly from the portal. The portal has more over 642 cards.
-  Biometric  Attendance  has  been  implemented  in  638  Central  Government  offices  covering  1.85  lakh employees and States/UTs involving 2 lakh employees.
-  On the National Portal for Lost & Found children (Khoya-Paya), 4362 users have registered, 3102 are being sighted and 752 missing children have been reported.
-  The  National  Scholarships  Portal,  a  one  stop  solution  for  end  to  end  scholarship  process,  have  been implemented. 77 scholarship schemes from 16 Ministries / Departments have been registered.

Each project/scheme being implemented under Digital India programme has its own budgetary requirement.

(b): Various projects/schemes are being implemented under the Digital India programme. These projects/schemes have their own project implementation approach and methodologies. As per the requirements of  individual  project/scheme's  implementation,  Central/State  Government  organisations,  private  and  public sector  IT  companies  and  individuals  from  Academia  are  providing  their  services  for  efficient  and  smooth delivery of the project/scheme.

(c)  and  (d): Yes,  Sir.  The  Government  has  identified  several  new  areas  and  the  details  of  new  initiatives undertaken are as follows:

- Unified Mobile App for New-age Governance (UMANG): UMANG is an initiative to build a common, unified platform and mobile app to facilitate single point of access for government services through mobile. Through  the  application,  citizens  can  access  high  impact  pan  India  e-Gov  services  from  the  central Government, State Governments, local bodies and their agencies and, even those from private sector.
- Government e-Marketplace (GeM): To facilitate on line procurement of Goods & Services required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs. GeM will enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. It will also provide the tools of  e-bidding  and reverse e-auction as well  as demand aggregation to facilitate efficient procurement.
- Rapid Assessment System (RAS): RAS is a continuous feedback system for e-services delivered through various Digital India platforms and various e-Gov applications.
- Digital  Literacy: In  new  National  Digital  Literacy  Mission(NDLM)  scheme,  target  is  to  make  6  crore people digitally literate in 3 years.
- National  Scholarships  Portal  (NSP): The  portal  is  a  one-stop  solution  to  implement  end-to-end disbursement of the scholarship to the beneficiaries. The process includes student registration, application, approval  and  disbursement.  76  schemes  of  22  Ministries/Departments  of  the  Government  are  being  onboarded on the portal.
- NIC e-Mail: The  current  E-mail  infrastructure  of  NIC  is  being  augmented  to  meet  the  requirement  of providing e- mail services to 5 million Government users. The upgraded email infrastructure will enable the scaling up of the E-mail services of NIC with additional features, for all the employees of Government both at  the  Centre  and  State.    This  service  will  have  the  latest  E-mail  architecture,  design,  performance,  and deployment features. This service would be configured in a manner to protect sensitive data with content filtering, virus protection, and encryption.
- National  Centre  of  Geo-informatics  (NCoG): GIS  platform  for  sharing,  collaboration,  location  based analytics and decision support system for Departments. Currently, 8 applications across various domains are operational.

(e)  and (f): The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India is implementing eDistrict Mission Mode Project (MMP) under Pillar 5 (eKranti - Electronic Delivery of Services) of Digital India programme.  The  duration  of  implementation  of      e-District  MMP  is  4  years.  This  MMP  aims  at  electronic delivery of identified high volume citizen centric services at the district or sub-district level. e-District services have been launched in 555 districts across 27 States including all 33 districts of Gujrat. The State-wise launch status is provided at Annexure.

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## State-wise status of launch of e-District services

|   S. No | State / UT Name        |   No. of Districts |   No. of Districts where eDistrict services are launched |
|---------|------------------------|--------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | Andaman &Nicobar       |                  3 |                                                        0 |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh         |                 13 |                                                       13 |
|       3 | Arunachal Pradesh      |                 16 |                                                        0 |
|       4 | Assam                  |                 27 |                                                       27 |
|       5 | Bihar                  |                 38 |                                                        4 |
|       6 | Chandigarh             |                  1 |                                                        1 |
|       7 | Chhattisgarh           |                 27 |                                                       27 |
|       9 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli |                  1 |                                                        1 |
|       8 | Daman and Diu          |                  2 |                                                        0 |
|      10 | Delhi                  |                 11 |                                                       11 |
|      11 | Goa                    |                  2 |                                                        0 |
|      12 | Gujarat                |                 33 |                                                       33 |
|      13 | Haryana                |                 21 |                                                       21 |
|      14 | Himachal Pradesh       |                 12 |                                                       12 |
|      15 | Jammu &Kashmir         |                 22 |                                                        0 |
|      16 | Jharkhand              |                 24 |                                                       24 |
|      17 | Karnataka              |                 30 |                                                        0 |
|      18 | Kerala                 |                 14 |                                                       14 |
|      19 | Lakshadweep            |                  1 |                                                        0 |
|      20 | Madhya Pradesh         |                 51 |                                                       51 |
|      21 | Maharashtra            |                 35 |                                                       35 |
|      22 | Manipur                |                  9 |                                                        9 |
|      23 | Meghalaya              |                 11 |                                                       11 |
|      24 | Mizoram                |                  8 |                                                        8 |
|      25 | Nagaland               |                 11 |                                                       11 |
|      26 | Odisha                 |                 30 |                                                       30 |
|      27 | Puducherry             |                  4 |                                                        0 |
|      28 | Punjab                 |                 22 |                                                       22 |
|      29 | Rajasthan              |                 33 |                                                       33 |
|      30 | Sikkim                 |                  4 |                                                        1 |
|      31 | Tamil Nadu             |                 32 |                                                       32 |
|      32 | Telangana              |                 10 |                                                       10 |
|      33 | Tripura                |                  8 |                                                        8 |
|      34 | Uttar Pradesh          |                 75 |                                                       75 |

## Annexure

| S. No   | State / UT Name   |   No. of Districts |   No. of Districts where eDistrict services are launched |
|---------|-------------------|--------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| 35      | Uttarakhand       |                 13 |                                                       13 |
| 36      | West Bengal       |                 18 |                                                       18 |
| Total   | Total             |                672 |                                                      555 |

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