Lok Sabha Question No. 9 (STARRED), answered on 2016-02-24
Subject: Digital India Campaign
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: SANTOSH AHLAWAT, SUMEDHANAND SARASWATI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *9

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 24.02.2016

## DIGITAL INDIA CAMPAIGN

## *9   SHRIMATI SANTOSH AHLAWAT: SHRI SUMEDHANAND SARSWATI:

Will the Minister of Communications & Information Technology be pleased to state: -

- (a)    the  progress  made  so  far  in  achieving  the  objectives  envisaged  under  the  'Digital  India' campaign;
- (b)  the number of companies within the country as well as abroad which have entered into an agreement with the Government under the 'Digital India' campaign;
- (c)    the investment made and the employment likely to generated as a result thereof;
- (d)   the details of funds disbursed under the project in the current fiscal till January, 2016; and
- (e)  the steps taken by the Government to ensure coordination among different agencies involved in this scheme?

## ANSWER

MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

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

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO *9 FOR 24-02-2016 REGARDING DIGITAL INDIA CAMPAIGN

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(a):    Digital  India  is  a  programme  to  transform  India  into  a  digitally  empowered  society  and knowledge  economy.    It  is  an Umbrella  Programme that  covers  multiple  Government Ministries and Departments. Digital India is to be coordinated by DeitY and implemented by the entire Government .

The  programme  aims  at  pulling  together  many existing  schemes .  The  schemes  will  be restructured and re-focused and will be implemented in a synchronized manner.

## Vision of Digital India: The Vision of Digital India is centred on three key areas:

1. Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen
2. Governance and services on Demand
3. Digital Empowerment of Citizens

Pillars  of  Digital  India: There  are  nine  pillars  of  growth  areas  under  the  Digital  India programme.  Each  of  these  areas  is  a  complex  programme  in  itself  and  cuts  across  multiple Ministries and Departments. The progress made so far is as follows:

## Pillar 1: Broadband Highways

-  Under  National  Optical  Fibre  Network  (NOFN)  project,  optical  fibre  has  reached  to 40,333 Gram Panchayats and optical fiber cable has been laid for 94,689 kms.

## Pillar 2: Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity

-  Rural tele-density has reached to more than 49%.
-  Spectrum Sharing and Trading has been approved and guidelines issued on 24.09.2015 and 12.10.2015.

## Pillar 3: Public Internet Access Programme

-  1,03,631 Common Services Centres have been set up under CSC 2.0 scheme in Gram Panchayats.
-  15,047 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  326  Post Offices.

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

-  Data Digitization and Aadhaar seeding initiated in various depts.
-  Number of user Departments for e-Office is 129.

## Pillar 5: eKranti- Electronic delivery of services

-  The portfolio of Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) has been increased from 31 MMPs to 44 MMPs under e-Kranti. 27 MMPs have been implemented.
-  222 out of 252 services are live.
-  The MMPs of e-Kranti have delivered more than 675 crore e-Transactions from 01st Jan 2015 to 31st Dec 2015.
-  MyGov  platform,  a  medium  to  seek  ideas/ suggestions from  Citizen, has been implemented. Till date, 43 Groups, 486 discussion themes, 393 tasks and 165 blogs have been published on MyGov platform.
-  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 21,207 datasets from 100 Departments are available and 21.8 lakhs downloaded. 63,239 users have registered

Pillar 6: Information for All

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

-  175  Investment  proposals  under  Modified  Specific  Incentive  Programmes  (MSIPs) having a proposed investment of Rs. 1.18 lakh crores have been so far received.
-  7 Greenfield Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMCs) and 1 Common Facility Centre (CFC) in  Brownfield  have  been  approved.  In  principle  approval  has  been  given  to  17 Greenfield and 3 CFCs in Brownfield EMCs.
-  Electronic Development Fund has been launched and four daughter funds involving Rs. 169.00 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.
-  5.5 lakh students have been trained for IT sector jobs by National Institute for Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT).
-  Telecom Sector Skill  Council  (TSSC) has  empanelled  157  training  partners  across  the country and trained 1.21 lakh persons so far in Telecom Training courses.
-  Around 33.74 lakh candidates have been enrolled for training, 24.43 lakh candidates have been trained and more than 6.35 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.
-  Wi-fi services have been commenced in 11 public wi-fi hotspots.
-  SMS based weather information and disaster alerts have been made operational.
-  Over 10.96 lakh residents have created their accounts on Digital Locker. More than 17.8 lakh documents have been uploaded on it.
-  More than 5.25 lakh Life Certificates have been successfully processed through Jeevan Pramaan portal.
-  Online Registration System (ORS) has been made operational in 26 hospitals and 1.49 lakh online appointments have been provided so far.
-  2.6 lakh documents have been digitized through Digitize India platform.
-  Since 15th August 2014, over 54 crore mailers have been sent on 163 campaigns through SAMPARK (IT platform for messages).
-  The Government e-Greetings have been sent to more than 10 lakh citizens directly from the portal. The portal has more over 438 cards.
-  Biometric Attendance has been implemented in 622 Central Government offices covering 1.77 lakh employees and 20 States/UTs involving 3 lakh employees.
-  On  the  National  Portal  for  Lost  &  Found  children  (Khoya-Paya),  4362  users  have registered, 2507 are being sighted and 718 missing children have been reported.
-  e-Basta, an electronic platform of e-Books for schools, have been made operational. Till date, 1250 e-Contents & 37 e-Basta (collection of books) have been made available and 798 e-Basta & 7732 e-Contents have been downloaded.
-  The National Scholarships Portal, a one stop solution for end to end scholarship process, have been implemented. 21 scholarship schemes from 9 Ministries / Departments have been registered and more than 1 crore applications submitted.

(b):    Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has executed a Joint Declaration of  Intent  with  Department  of  State  of  the  Government  of  USA  on  cooperation  in  the  field  of Information  &  Communications  Technology  and  Electronics.  Tripartite  MOUs  between  (i) Centre  for  Development  of  Advanced  Computing  (C-DAC),  Indian  Institute  of  Science Bangalore  &  Lomonsov  Moscow  State  University  (MSU)  on  Collaboration  for  Education  in High Performance Computing and (ii) C-DAC, Open Joint Stock Company 'GLONASS' Russia & GLONASS Union Russia on Cooperation for Development of Technologies and application based on Navigational Satellites were also signed.

(c):    An investment of Rs. 4.5 lakh crore has been committed by various companies on July 1, 2015 for Digital India programme.

-  Under Modified Specific Incentive Programmes (MSIPs), investments of nearly Rs. 1.18 lakh  crores  have  been  received,  which  would  generate  employment  to  nearly  1.62  lakh people.
-  Under the Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) scheme proposals with a total outlay of Rs. 8,313 crore have been received, which would generate employment opportunities to about 8.29 lakh persons.
-  India  BPO  Promotion  Scheme  (IBPS)  with  an  outlay  of  about  Rs.493  crore  would generate employment opportunities for about 1.45 lakh persons.

(d):    Digital  India  is  being  implemented  and  funded  by  various  Ministries/Departments  in Government of India. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has made an  expenditure  of  Rs.  3036.77  crore  in  current  fiscal  till  31 st January  2016  for  various projects/schemes under the Digital India.

(e):        The  Department  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology  (DeitY)  is  coordinating department  for  the  implementation  of  Digital  India.  The  monitoring  of  the  Digital  India programme has been envisaged through three committees namely, (i) Monitoring Committee on Digital India under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister (ii) Digital India Advisory Group under the Chairmanship of Minister of  Communications and Information Technology (iii) Apex Committee on Digital India under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary

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