Lok Sabha Question No. 546 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-07-20
Subject: Digital Vans
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: BALKA SUMAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY  OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 546

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 20.07.2016

## DIGITAL  VANS

## 546 SHRI  SUMAN BALKA:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  rolled  out  new  awareness  campaign  about  e-governance services by introducing digital vans in rural and semi-urban districts;
- (b) if so, the salient features of the new campaign;
- (c) the number of districts selected for the purpose, State-wise; and
- (d) the funds allocated for the purpose and the time by which the campaign is likely to be started?

## ANSWER

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

(a) and  (b): Yes, Sir. The Government of India has launched awareness campaign about eGovernance services directly to citizens by introducing vans in rural and semi-urban districts of  the  country.  District  level  committee  has  been  constituted  under  the  chairmanship  of District Collector to monitor and mobilize this campaign. The campaign is being conducted for  20  days  (average)  in  each  district.  These  outreached  campaign  vans  will  conduct awareness activities including Skit Shows, Augmented Reality (AR) games, Audio/ Video (AV)  shows,  Demonstration,  Registration  drive  for  Digital  India  (DI)    services,  flyers, posters,  tin-plates,  feedback  collection  etc.  These  daily  activities  will  be  conducted  at congregation points in each district such as Digital Seva Kendra (Common Services Centres - CSCs), Gram Panchayats, Post Offices, Haats, District Offices, Schools, Colleges etc.

- (c):  The new awareness campaign is being conducted in 656

districts in 33 states/UTs. The state-wise list is as follows:

|   Sr. no. | States           |   Number of Districts |
|-----------|------------------|-----------------------|
|         1 | Jammu &Kashmir   |                    22 |
|         2 | Punjab           |                    22 |
|         3 | Himachal Pradesh |                    12 |
|         4 | Uttarakhand      |                    13 |

| 5     | Rajasthan           |   33 |
|-------|---------------------|------|
| 6     | Haryana             |   21 |
| 7     | Delhi               |    9 |
| 8     | Chandigarh          |    1 |
| 9     | Uttar Pradesh       |   75 |
| 10    | Bihar               |   38 |
| 11    | Jharkhand           |   24 |
| 12    | Meghalaya           |    7 |
| 13    | Nagaland            |   11 |
| 14    | Gujarat             |   33 |
| 15    | Dadra &Nagar Haveli |    1 |
| 16    | Daman &Diu          |    2 |
| 17    | Madhya Pradesh      |   51 |
| 18    | Chhattisgarh        |   27 |
| 19    | Maharashtra         |   35 |
| 20    | Goa                 |    2 |
| 21    | Andhra Pradesh      |   13 |
| 22    | Telangana           |   10 |
| 23    | Karnataka           |   30 |
| 24    | Tamilnadu           |   32 |
| 25    | Puducherry          |    4 |
| 26    | Kerala              |   14 |
| 27    | West Bengal         |   19 |
| 28    | Sikkim              |    4 |
| 29    | Odisha              |   30 |
| 30    | Assam               |   27 |
| 31    | Manipur             |    9 |
| 32    | Tripura             |    8 |
| 33    | Arunachal Pradesh   |   17 |
| Total | Total               |  656 |

(d):   The funds allocated for the Digital India Outreached Campaign is Rs. 32.00 crore. The campaign has started from 30.05.2016.

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