Lok Sabha Question No. 160 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-02-24
Subject: Good Governance Week
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: JAGDAMBIKA PAL

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 160

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 24.02.2016

## GOOD GOVERNANCE WEEK

## 160.      SHRI JAGDAMBIKA PAL:

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

- (a)        the  details  of  the  initiative  unveiled  under  'Digital  India'  during  the  'Good  Governance' week held last year;
- (b)      whether  the  initiatives  will  include  development  of  more  Indian  languages  on  digital platforms and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c)     the funds government proposes to utilise on these initiatives in the current fiscal year?

## ANSWER

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

(a):    The  following  initiatives  have  been  launched  under  'Digital  India'  during  the  'Good Governance Week' held from 25 Dec to 31 Dec 2015:

## Digital Infrastructure:

-  National Centre for Geo Informatics for use of GIS in Government
-  National Informatics Centre (NIC's) 4 th Data Centre at Bhubaneswar
-  Initiating empanelment for private cloud services providers for e-Governance
-  Public wi-fi hotspots at Harki Pauri, Haridwar and Dargah Sharif, Ajmer
-  10 lakh connections with Next Generation Network (NGN) capacity
-  Dedication of 251st ATM Post Office to nation

## Digital Services:

-  Government Payment Portal enabling 100% e-Payment across the country
-  Mobile App for Digital Locker account holders
-  Transfer of Text To Speech Technology to industry in 9 Indian Languages
-  Installation  of  solar  panels  to  enable  rural  post  office  as  multi-service  delivery  centres and   launch of Post Terminals
-  12000th Post Office to offer Core Banking Solution
-  Pan India Free Roaming for Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited(MTNL) customers

## Digital Empowerment:

-  Special Manpower Development Program for Chips to System Design
-  Online Labs (OLABs) (virtual laboratory for Class XI-XII) in all CBSE schools
-  Information Security Education Awareness (ISEA) Phase II programme
-  Capacity & Awareness of 1.14 lakh persons through 45 participating institutions
-  Digital India e-Newletter

## Industry Promotion:

-  All India BPO scheme to create 48,300 BPO seats in Tier II / Tier III towns
-  Dedicating 1st BPO centre under North East BPO scheme at Guwahati
-  Eight new Software Technology Parks of India(STPI) centres in Bihar, Odisha & Uttar Pradesh
-  Indigenously developed tactile books in Math developed by IIT - Delhi
-  Indigenously developed Digital Programmable Hearing aid by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(CDAC),  Thiruvananthapuram

(b)  and  (c):    Yes,  Sir.  Under  Digital  India  programme,  Technology  for  Text-to-Speech  (TTS) System in 9 Indian languages has been transferred to OS Labs India Ltd for integrating the TTS in  indigenous  Android  based  Indus  OS(Operating  System)  in  Indian  languages.  Under  the ongoing  project  of  Text-to-speech  (TTS)  system  in  Indian  languages,  TTS  for  2  more  Indian languages is under development. The government has proposed to utilise Rs. 1.46 crore on these initiatives in the current fiscal year.

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