Lok Sabha Question No. 1640 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-10
Subject: Digital India Programme
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Dr. Nishikant Dubey

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1640

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 10.12.2025

## DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME

## 1640.  DR. NISHIKANT DUBEY:

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

- (a) the total funds allocated and utilised under the Digital India programme since 2023, yearwise;
- (b) the number of IT Professional re-skilled and up-skilled under the Future Skills Prime Programme since 2022, year-wise; and
- (c) the progress of Centres of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence on health, agriculture and sustainable cities to be set up under the Digital India programme?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI JITIN PRASADA)

(a) to (c) : Digital India is an umbrella programme covering multiple projects implemented across Central Ministries/Departments  and  State/UT  Governments.  Its  execution  requires  close  coordination  among these agencies, as many initiatives are jointly developed and implemented.

The details of funds allocated and utilised can be accessed from the website https://www.digitalindia.gov.in/about-us/

Government of India is actively promoting the growth of the IT sector, especially in smaller towns and cities. It aims to develop India as a global hub for software products,  boosting the domestic demand and exports of software products.

The performance of this sector over the last 5 years and estimates for 2024-25 are mentioned below:

(in billion dollars)

|                  |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |   2021-22 |   2022-23 |   2023-24 |   2024-25(E) |
|------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------------|
| Export revenue   |       147 |       152 |       178 |       194 |     199.5 |        224.4 |
| Domestic revenue |        44 |        45 |        49 |        51 |      54.4 |         58.2 |
| Total Revenue    |       191 |       196 |       227 |       245 |     254   |        282.6 |

(E) = Estimate                                                                                      Source: NASSCOM

To cater to the demand of this growing industry, the government is undertaking various capacity building initiatives.

The 'FutureSkills PRIME' programme is one such initiative being implemented in collaboration with the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).

- Focuses on skilling, reskilling, and upskilling individuals in new and emerging technologies
- Provides  premium  learning  content  to  support  flexible,  anytime-anywhere  learning  tailored  to candidates' aptitudes and career aspirations
- Courses are offered through an online digital-skills training platform, available at https://futureskillsprime.in

Under the FutureSkills Prime program, there are over 500 courses & 2000+ digital fluency pathways offered on the platform.

So far, more than 15.78 lakh candidates have benefitted in various courses comprising of approximately 41% women learners and 85% candidates from tier-2 and tier-3 cities. Year-wise details are mentioned in Annexure -1.

## Centres of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI-CoEs)

Government of India has established Centres of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI-CoEs). These centres have been established to address the areas of healthcare, sustainable cities and agriculture.

The AI-CoEs are led by the premier institutions of the nation such as IISc Bangalore, IIT Kanpur, and IIT Ropar, respectively. These CoEs have undertaken strategic initiatives aligned with their sectoral focus.

- Clean-air monitoring in Delhi and AI-based traffic and flood prediction for Surat project by AICoE for sustainable cities.
- o A Pilot project of Digital Nagar Palika platform in Kanpur streamlines municipal services by integrating  citizen  feedback,  service  requests,  and  urban  management  into  a  single  digital system
- Under the AI-CoE for Healthcare, projects are underway to develop AI tools on the detection of various chronic diseases like oral and breast cancer, retinal disease and diabetes
- AI-CoE for Agriculture has deployed Automatic Weather Stations, developed AgriLLM and pest & crop-identification tools.

Annexure -1

Year wise achievements of FutureSkills PRIME:

| Financial Year   | Enrolled/Trained   |
|------------------|--------------------|
| 2020-21          | 91,897             |
| 2021-22          | 2,58,919           |
| 2022-23          | 2,69,682           |

| 2023-24   | 2,86,401   |
|-----------|------------|
| 2024-25   | 3,40,012   |
| 2025-26*  | 3,31,399   |
| Total     | 15,78,310  |

* (as on 30.11.2025)

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